The High Price of Food is now an Election Issue

A survey conducted in July 2024 found that the most important issue for 25 percent of Americans in this election year was inflation and prices. Food prices have increased more than 20 percent over the last four years, making the issue a key political talking point in the presidential matchup that will be decided in November, according to POLITICO and other D.C. media outlets.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris catalyzed those concerns in a pitch she made to crackdown on “price gouging” in the days leading up to the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago last month.

Industry leaders argue that the rise in prices has to do with supply chain impacts triggered by the pandemic, the extraordinary amount of government money dumped into the economy during the pandemic, and increased demand.

Arguments in support of Western irrigated agriculture in recent years have been drowned in a flood of commentary from faraway critics who downplay and even criticize the importance of using water to produce affordable and safe food and fiber.

Over the past three years, the Family Farm Alliance has worked with its allies in Western agriculture to educate the public, the media and policymakers on linkage between the war in Ukraine, severe drought conditions in the Western U.S., significantly inflated food costs, global supply chain challenges, and a looming global famine.

Those efforts continue.

CLICK HERE to download the PDF Version of the September 2024 edition of the “Monthly Briefing”, where you can read more about this, and these other important issues to Western water users, from a perspective that you won’t find anywhere else:

• Alliance Welcomes USDA’s New Water Savings Commodity Program
• WRDA Bill Heads to Conference after Senate Vote
• Reclamation to Host B2E Webinar on September 6
• Roll out the Barrels….of Federal Cash
• ESA Fish Listing Decisions….Good News and Bad News
• EPA Solicits Nominations for Ag Federal Advisory Committee
• ENR Clears Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Reform Legislation, DOI Nomination
• IID Acts to Protect Colorado River, Salton Sea with New Conservation Agreement
• A Big “Thank You” to our New and Supporting Members!

Please do not hesitate to contact dan@familyfarmalliance.org if you have any difficulties downloading the September 2024 “Monthly Briefing”.