Hi, I'm Amanda! My family farms corn and soybeans in Southwest Michigan. I'm also a practicing attorney.
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When you just make 💩 up, it makes it hard to keep things straight. 🙄
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed
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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.
My latest for AGDAILY is an early take on how Brookes Rollins work at the helm of USDA.
Is Rollins delivering for family farmers? A report card on her USDA work | AGDAILY
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Brooke Rollins is off to a mixed start: she moved quickly to address the avian flu crisis, but she has failed to stand up for farmers against the MAHA movement.
You can't and won't make America healthy by blaming and hindering our family farmers.
MAHA Report delivers scathing assessment of farm pesticides | AGDAILY
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The new MAHA report, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., links pesticides to rising childhood illness, already drawing criticism from farm groups.
Do you a plan for your estate? My latest for AGDAILY focuses on potential changes to the federal estate tax.
Perspective: A farmer's legacy shouldn't be a tax nightmare for their kin
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For farm families, estate taxes aren’t just an abstract policy debate -- they’re a very real threat to generational farms and the livelihoods they support.
If nothing else, this should keep you up at night. Every snake oil salesman is now in charge of HHS.
How RFK Jr. Is Boosting ‘Food Babe’ and Other MAHA Acolytes
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The health and human services secretary has elevated lightly regulated wellness companies and allowed advisers to keep investments, after vowing to end conflicts of interest.
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Have you written anything or know of good resources on the pros or cons of putting an inherited farm into an LLC or not?
Hi Hope! Yes, I have. https://www.thefarmersdaughterusa.com/2014/02/our-family-farm-just-became-corporation.html