Trending Headlines: Drought, markets, food prices & grasshoppers

The blog wraps up with a look at Biden’s executive order to address competition in various industries, as well as an update on the farmer debt forgiveness program and the response from producers across the country.

“Around 93% of the West is in some level of drought this week, and a bizarre impact of this pernicious dry condition is the explosion of the grasshopper population.

Watson says, “If you think the prices at the pump, or at the grocery store, have been a lot to handle lately, you’re not alone.

O’Donoghue writes, “Reyes Carballo, the Parowan rancher who runs 300 cattle on 300 acres, could get any federal debt relieved, if he had any and if he chose to.

Shearer writes, “President Joe Biden has signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition in the U.S.

industries, a smaller number of large companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago.

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