I’ve been called a voice for younger environmental and agricultural advocates by Civil Eats. The Intercept also said that my focus on monopolies represents a new school of thought in the Democratic Party. We'll see. I'm gonna try my hardest to blend the two.​
I’ve been called a voice for younger environmental and agricultural advocates by Civil Eats. The Intercept also said that my focus on monopolies represents a new school of thought in the Democratic Party. We'll see. I'm gonna try my hardest to blend the two.​
I’ve been called a voice for younger environmental and agricultural advocates by Civil Eats. The Intercept also said that my focus on monopolies represents a new school of thought in the Democratic Party. We'll see. I'm gonna try my hardest to blend the two.​
I’ve been called a voice for younger environmental and agricultural advocates by Civil Eats. The Intercept also said that my focus on monopolies represents a new school of thought in the Democratic Party. We'll see. I'm gonna try my hardest to blend the two.​
I’ve been called a voice for younger environmental and agricultural advocates by Civil Eats. The Intercept also said that my focus on monopolies represents a new school of thought in the Democratic Party. We'll see. I'm gonna try my hardest to blend the two.​
Austin Frerick
THE NEW REPUBLIC (MARCH 2024)
Author of “Do You Know Where Your Strawberries Come From?” (this is an excerpt from my Berry Barons chapter in Barons)
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SALON (MARCH 2024)
Author of “Hidden Costs, Public Burden: The Real Toll of Walmart's ‘Always Low Prices’” (this is an excerpt from my Grocery Barons chapter in Barons)
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DES MOINES REGISTER (MARCH 2024)
Author of “'Barons' Examines US Food System, Including Pork Production” (this is an excerpt from my Hog Barons chapter in Barons)
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MINNESOTA REFORMER (MARCH 2024)
Author of "Book Excerpt: ‘Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry’" (An excerpt from my Grain Barons chapter in Barons)
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HARKIN INSTIUTE (MARCH 2022)
Author of “Piloting a New Way Forward: Using Farm Bill Pilots to Guide Future Ag Policy” with Kody Craddick
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MILKWEED (AUGUST 2021)
Author of “Highly Significant: Lina Khan’s U.S. Senate Confirmation as FTC Chairperson”
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (JUNE 2021)
Author of “The Outsourcing of America’s Food”
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VOX (APRIL 2021)
Author of “The Hog Baron” with Charlie Mitchell
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CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE (APRIL 2020)
Author of “Meat Supply is at Risk; More Family Farms are the Answer” with Charlie Mitchell
[reprint from American Conservative, April 2020]
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AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (APRIL 2020)
Author of “Multinational Meat Farms Could Be Making Us Sick” with Charlie Mitchell
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DATA FOR PROGRESS (OCTOBER 2019)
Author of “Memo: Voters Support Overhauling America's School Meal Programs”
DATA FOR PROGRESS (OCTOBER 2019)
Author of “Memo: Restoring Independence and Fairness to Agriculture Under a Green New Deal” with Charlie Mitchell
CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE (JUNE 2019)
Author of “To Revive Rural Iowa, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System”
[reprint from American Conservative, February 2019]
PROGRESSIVE POPULIST (APRIL 2019)
Author of “Fixing Our Food System — and Reviving Rural America — Means Breaking Up Big Ag”
[reprint from The American Conservative, February 2019]
CIVIL EATS (FEBRUARY 2019)
Author of “Fixing our Food System -- and Reviving Rural America -- Means Breaking Up Big Ag”
[reprint from American Conservative, February 2019]
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE (FEBRUARY 2019)
Author of “To Revive Rural America, We Must Fix Our Broken Food System”
FORBES (JANUARY 2019)
Author of “Green New Deal Needs To Include Agriculture Technology”
DAILY YONDER (JANUARY 2019)
Author of “Speak Your Piece: Coastal Donor Democrats Need to Wake up about Rural Voters” with Matt Barron
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BUZZFEED NEWS (NOVEMBER 2018)
Author of “Democrats Can Win Back Rural America, But First They Need To Understand What Bled It Dry” with Sarah Miller
FAST COMPANY (OCTOBER 2018)
Author of “Should We Break Up The Tech Giants? Not If You Ask The Economists Who Take Money From Them" with Matt Stoller
FORBES (SEPTEMBER 2018)
Author of “From The Dairy Crisis To Rising Interest Rates, An Agricultural Economist Answers”
FORBES (AUGUST 2018)
Author of “Twenty-First Century Home Economics: Edible Schoolyard”
FORBES (AUGUST 2018)
Author of “Ethanol: A Bridge To Nowhere For America's Corn Farmers?”
CIVIL EATS (JULY 2018)
Author of “The Farm Group that’s Part of Rural America’s Crisis”
[reprint from Des Moines Register, June 2018]
DES MOINES REGISTER (JUNE 2018)
Author of “Iowa Farm Bureau is a Suburban Insurance Company Pretending to be the Voice of Farmers”
SLOWFOODS-USA (MARCH 2018)
Author of “To Save Rural Iowa, We Need to Make Healthy Food a Right”
FOODTANK (JANUARY 2018)
Author of “To Save Family Farms, We Must Oppose Monsanto-Bayer Merger”
[reprint from the Des Moines Register, July 2017]
DES MOINES REGISTER (NOVEMBER 2017)
Author of “Beer Giants Threaten Craft Breweries”
IN THESE TIMES (JULY 2017)
Author of “To Save Rural Iowa, We Must End Monsanto’s Seed Monopoly”
[reprint from Des Moines Register, July 2017]
DES MOINES REGISTER (JULY 2017)
Author of “To Save Rural Iowa, We Must Oppose Monsanto-Bayer Merger”
DES MOINES REGISTER (APRIL 2017)
Author of “Chasing Service Jobs Won't Save Midsize Cities. Education And Manufacturing Innovation Can.”
BLEEDING HEARTLAND (MARCH 2017)
Author of “The Human Cost Of Big Pharma's Greed: Overcharging The Hepatitis C Cure”
NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL (DECEMBER 2016)
Author of “Have Excess Returns to Corporations Been Increasing Over Time?” with Laura Power
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (NOVEMBER 2016)
Author of “Have Excess Returns to Corporations Been Increasing Over Time?” with Laura Power
[reprint from National Tax Journal, December 2016]
TAX NOTES (NOVEMBER 2016)
Author of “The Cloak of Social Responsibility: Pharmaceutical Corporate Charity”
TAX NOTES (OCTOBER 2016)
Author of “Executive Pay Excess Raises Fiduciary Concerns: The 162(M) Provision”
BLEEDING HEARTLAND (OCTOBER 2016)
Author of “Why Iowans Need Job-Protected Paid Leave”
BLEEDING HEARTLAND (SEPTEMBER 2016)
Author of “Failing Iowa’s Children: The Shortcomings of Welfare Reform and the Path Forward”
BLEEDING HEARTLAND (JUNE 2016)
Author of “Big Meat, Small Towns: The Free Market Rationale for Raising Iowa’s Minimum Wage”
DES MOINES REGISTER (APRIL 2016)
Author of “Reinvestment In Higher Education Should Be Fair, Simple”
BLEEDING HEARTLAND (APRIL 2016)
Author of “Disheartened in the Heartland: Iowa’s Disinvestment in Higher Education”
DES MOINES REGISTER (DECEMBER 2015)
Author of “Iowa Should Lead Effort To Ban Non-Competes”