Iowa’s food landscape can become like Italy’s — if the “barons” who captured the American farmstand can be defeated, a new book argues. “Barons,” published Tuesday by Austin Frerick ...

The Barons Who Rule What We Eat Author Austin Frerick explains Big Ag’s powerbrokers—and how Trump’s tariffs could upend American farming.

Barons: Money, Power, and Corruption of America’s Food Industry exposes these ill-gotten gains and a cadre of complicit government players who made it all possible. The USDA’s dismal Census of ...

As a result of the Robber Barons, complex socio-economic changes occurred, resulting in riots, strikes, and the birth of the labor movement. In the years following the American Civil War, Robber ...

American land barons: 100 wealthy families now own nearly as much land as that of New England By Christopher Ingraham / The Washington Post Dec 22, 2017 ...