Listen to a June 6, 2012, podcast about the importance of food stamps to the farm bill from American Public Media’s Marketplace.

See The New York Times’ Times Topics page on the farm bill.

Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. His books include The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Read an Oct. 9, 2008, column on farm policy that he wrote for The New York Times.

Dan Imhoff is an author, publisher and farmer in California whose writings on farm and environmental issues include the book Food Fight: A Citizen’s Guide to the Farm Bill, updated to reflect issues in this year’s bill. He is co-founder, director, and publisher of Watershed Media. Read an essay he wrote about the 2012 bill for the Oct. 3, […]

Jerry Hagstrom is founder and executive editor of the Hagstrom Report, a Washington, D.C.-based news service focusing on agricultural news.

Ryan Alexander is president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, which says that farm bill proposals so far fall far short of what’s needed to trim budgetary bloat.  

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.

American National Election Studies produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

The Quinnipiac University Polling Institute is operated out of Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., and regularly conducts surveys of residents of Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia as well as nationwide.