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Latest Fact-Checks In Agriculture

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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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 23, 2020 a Facebook post
“Trump’s farmer bailout is now twice the size of Obama’s GM bailout. The big difference is GM paid their bailout back — with interest.”
Mostly False
February 26, 2020
John Nygren
John Nygren
stated on January 22, 2020 a news release
Says Gov. Tony Evers "proposed raising taxes on the agriculture industry to pay for expanded welfare programs."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • February 14, 2020
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on December 12, 2019 a debate
Says federal regulation of the wolf population has led to attacks on livestock, driving down production, leading to dairy farms going out of business.
Pants on Fire!
By Laura Schulte • January 15, 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
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 1, 2019 news articles and blogs
Americans "would run out of avocados in three weeks" if imports from Mexico were stopped due to a border closure. 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • April 3, 2019
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on March 18, 2019 an interview on MSNBC
"Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression."
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 21, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on February 19, 2019 a tweet
Farmers are declaring bankruptcy "in record numbers" and "the median income for U.S. farm households was -$1,548 in 2018."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 27, 2019
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp
stated on February 24, 2019 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week"
"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
True
By Chris Nichols • February 14, 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
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 5, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Stacey Abrams said "Who needs agriculture when you can just get food at the store?"
Pants on Fire!
February 7, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet
"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • January 9, 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
Sonny Perdue
Sonny Perdue
stated on July 26, 2018 a press release
"America’s hard-working agricultural producers … have taken a disproportionate hit when it comes to illegal retaliatory tariffs."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • August 9, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 20, 2018 a tweet
"The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the election. A big reason is bad (terrible) trade deals with other countries."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2018 a tweet
"Canada charges the U.S. a 270% tariff on Dairy Products! They didn’t tell you that, did they? Not fair to our farmers!"
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 13, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on April 16, 2018 a campaign ad
Says that "when federal bureaucrats wanted to prohibit the use of wooden cheese boards, which help make tens of millions of pounds of cheese a year" she "stepped in, helped eliminate the regulations."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • June 7, 2018
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