Austin Frerick

Check out the alert Big Ag just put out about me (I'm testifying to the Minnesota House Agriculture Committee, presenting aspects of my book Barons).

Check out this new Q&A I did:
"When we tell history, we tend to tell it from top-down, when really these changes come from the bottom-up. Everyone thinks Teddy Roosevelt is this big trust buster, when in reality that started decades earlier in Iowa. The first anti-monopoly laws in the world came from Iowa. Farmers got about grain elevators and railroads, so they organized. I just think we’re at the end of a laissez-faire era. I mean, these laissez faire eras always crash and burn. But for me, it’s what should be next?"

How the Trump Administration Is Deepening Food Monopolies: A Q&A with Anti-Trust Expert Austin Frerick “The land is producing the most that it has ever produced, but none of that wealth is staying there. So we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re seeing the politics of rage fill that void.”

“You’re a winner, baby!” 🥳😜 Honored to have won the best “Food Issues” book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).

Really cool to have it presented by another Iowan, too: Elle Gadient of Dyersville.