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Latest Fact-Checks In Agriculture

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Karoline Leavitt
Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 White House press briefing
The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”
Half-True
January 30, 2025
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Ashley Hinson
Ashley Hinson
stated on March 6, 2022 a tweet
California has instituted a "bacon ban."
Half-True
March 11, 2022
Team PAC
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 an ad
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."
Half-True
February 9, 2022
Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on July 19, 2021 a tweet
Says he worked to pass the 2018 farm bill “that helped farmers, invest(ed) in rural broadband, and added work requirements for able-bodied adults, Budd voted NO.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • August 3, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2021 a Facebook post
Lumber, gas, wheat, coal and corn cost more in April 2021 "in Joe Biden's America" than they did a year earlier.
Half-True
May 27, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2021 a Facebook post
“Minority farmers get big bonus, white ones get none,” because of Democrats.
Half-True
March 30, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2020 a text post
Says Joe Biden “wants American farmers to put their farmland into Gvt ‘land banks.’ Gvt would then tell farmers what ‘sustainable’ plants they could grow.”
Half-True
By Monique Curet • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2020 a speech
Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”
Half-True
By Eric Litke • October 2, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 4, 2020 a Facebook post
"Bill Gates worked to end livestock production, and is pushing lab grown meat."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • May 18, 2020
Paul Farrow
Paul Farrow
stated on April 30, 2020 online post
Says a meat shortage is “not expected”
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • May 5, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on March 27, 2019 a policy paper posted on Medium
Mergers and integration in agribusiness "squeeze" family farms, and "the result is that farmers are getting a record-low amount of every dollar Americans spend on food."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 20, 2018 a TV ad
Says Tony Evers will "raise property taxes, raise income taxes and raise gas taxes by as much as a dollar a gallon."
Half-True
October 11, 2018
Jon Tester
Jon Tester
stated on August 3, 2018 on candidate's website
Says Matt Rosendale "consistently supported land use rules that would help developers like him and hurt farmers in Montana."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • August 9, 2018
Southwest Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
stated on January 22, 2018 a news story
"Texas is home to more feral pigs than any other state — an estimated 50 percent to 75 percent of all feral swine in the nation."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 1, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 28, 2017 a blog post
"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • July 24, 2017
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on May 12, 2016 in a speech
"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."
Half-True
By Taylor Leighton • July 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 1, 2016 a news conference
"There are tens of thousands of homes right here in California where you turn on the faucet but you can't drink the water."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 a TV ad
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
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