Farmers and Ranchers Call for Checkoff Reform in Defiance of Industry Pressure on Congress Today 61 signing organizations sent a letter to the leadership of both Congressional Agriculture Committees in […]
Brownfield Ag News | Legislation Could Help Farmers Feed Communities and Customers Buy Local Food Reposted from: https://brownfieldagnews.com/news/legislation-could-help-farmers-feed-communities-and-customers-buy-local-food/ Bipartisan and bicameral legislation has been introduced to update some farm bill […]
The American Prospect | Farmers Pay Big Ag to Lobby Against Them Reposted from: https://prospect.org/power/2023-04-04-big-ag-lobbies-against-farmers/ At the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, two-term Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed out […]
131 Farm and Food Groups Call for Checkoff Reform in the 2023 Farm Bill Today, a coalition of 131 groups representing farmers, the food system, the environment, animal welfare, and […]
Midterm Results Leave Room for Bipartisanship, Farm System Reform Bucking historical trends that sweep in candidates from the opposing party of the president during the midterm elections, Republicans look to […]
Civil Eats | How the Midterm Elections Will Impact Food and Agriculture Reposted from: https://civileats.com/2022/11/03/how-the-midterm-elections-will-impact-food-and-agriculture/ While prices are the only real food issue in the spotlight as the midterm elections […]
FarmProgress | Congress Seeks Investigation into Beef Price Fixing Reposted from: https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-operations/congress-seeks-investigation-into-beef-price-fixing “For the past two years, I have been calling on the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of […]
Meat + Poultry | Lawmakers to Introduce Mandatory COOL Legislation Reposted from: https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/25484-lawmakers-to-introduce-mandatory-cool-legislation Four US Senators announced legislation regarding the American Beef Labeling Act which mandates the reinstatement of beef […]
Capital Press | Who Owns the West? Reposted from: https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/orchards_nuts_vines/who-owns-the-west-foreign-investors-are-buying-western-u-s-farmland-whos-investing-and/article_1d0e0d92-07c2-11ec-bfd0-a3344ee15879.html In recent decades, foreign investors have bought more than 35 million acres of U.S. farmland worth $62 billion — about […]
The New Yorker | Is It Time to Break up Big Ag? Resposted from: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/is-it-time-to-break-up-big-ag In the spring of 2020, Dairy Farmers of America, the nation’s largest dairy coöperative, purchased […]
