“Iowa can be all red, top to bottom,” Frerick said. IL, on the other hand, has a “dem supermajority.” But “when it comes to ag policy, what is the difference?” If ILs’ wetland bill fails again, it might confirm his fears: “There’s just not a difference.” grist.org/food-and-agric…

For context, Vilsack's family would personally stand to benefit immensely from this briefing document. See this Tom Philpott's piece: motherjones.com/food/2022/01/u…

Big Ag + Human Trafficking: "Recent graduates were told they were coming to the US for cultural exchange. They ended up trapped in a factory farm." Blockbuster piece by Nina Elkadi and incredible legal work by FarmSTAND (on Bluesky @FarmSTAND.bsky.social). sentientmedia.org/cultural-excha…

What an experience yesterday to walk the red carpet at the premier of The Price of Milk, a docuseries hopefully coming soon to a streamer near you. It was such an honor to be in it and talk about my Dairy Baron 🥳🐮

On JBS’ public listing today, and why it is bad: “They're the largest [meatpacker] in the world, the largest we've ever seen in the history of mankind,” Frerick said. “This will just make everything we've seen in the meat system just get worse.” bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Special thanks to the worker-owned cooperative Equal Exchange Co-op for letting me keynote and present Barons at their annual Summit. Such an honor to such a cool org.

You know you're in good company when you're next to a Christopher Leonard book!

Honored to have presented Barons and keynoted at the R-CALF USA National Convention earlier this month in Deadwood, South Dakota 🐂🇺🇸. I can't say this enough -- fixing the concentration crisis in America's meat markets is one of the most bipartisan things right now.

⁦Tracy Alloway⁩ ⁦Joe Weisenthal⁩ and ⁦Austin Frerick⁩ got me feeling romantic for agriculture and food changes from my ⁦UC Davis⁩ days podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd…

New Review of Barons 🌾 “[A book] I just can’t stop talking and thinking about... my favorite part of the book was how masterfully Frerick writes about the interconnectedness of our food systems with so many other aspects of our lives.” reformedjournal.com/2025/06/28/har…

The result, said Frerick, is akin to “throwing gasoline on the inequality in America and in the food system.” grist.org/food-and-agric…

I'm excited to be heading back down to Texas 🤠 More info 👉 southernfamilyfarmersconference.org