Turkey Day Economics
The news from the Farm Bureau is that cost of Thanksgiving dinner is up 14% to a whopping $53.31. Of… Read More »Turkey Day Economics
The news from the Farm Bureau is that cost of Thanksgiving dinner is up 14% to a whopping $53.31. Of… Read More »Turkey Day Economics
August 5th 1982, farmworker Sacharias Ruiz awoke at dawn in Bryan, Texas. He would not live to see the sun… Read More »Pesticides and the Right to Know
The 1980s were hard times for agriculture, the worst hard times since the Great Depression. When you look at the… Read More »Sarah and the Two Jims
PHIT is proud to announce the publication of Voice Lessons, a major memoir of one of Austin’s own legendary activists. … Read More »VOICE LESSONS
People’s History in Texas is in the middle of a in-depth project collecting oral history and archives on the Jim… Read More »Pesticides are Hell on Bugs and Not Much Better on People
The Jim Hightower Department of Agriculture (1983-1991) operated like the Knights of the Round Table. He attracted men and women… Read More »Wine, Texas, and the Camelot Project
Farmer’s Markets!! Don’t we all just love going down to our local farmer’s market and getting our sprouts and… Read More »Farmer’s Markets in Texas
Forty years ago, the Department of Energy made a colossally ill-conceived effort to declare Deaf Smith County a repository for… Read More »40 years of No
Texas is the now King of Wind! Wind delivered 22% of the state’s electrical energy in 2019. More than the… Read More »Wind Power and the TDA
Rally to Save Family Farms Texas Populism Project Doug Zabel grew up on a farm in the Midwest and was… Read More »Farm Bill 1985: A Lost Opportunity