Reposted from https://app.publicnewsservice.org/story/nebraska-voters-asked-to-back-candidates-who-support-rural-interests/e5f75e4e-0f2a-42bb-92b6-81b436aab856? Rural advocacy groups have launched an initiative to raise awareness of rural issues and support producers who grow healthy food in Nebraska. The effort is part of […]
Reposted from https://prospect.org/2026/06/09/why-that-next-hamburger-is-going-to-cost-you-new-world-screwworm/ The primary driver of inflation in the U.S. economy—the forever war in Iran—has not yet taken full effect. Now we’ve found an entirely new driver. Last week, the […]
Reposting from https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/democrats-are-worried-this-upstart-candidate-could-cost-them-november What’s a screwworm? Bad news. The invasive species of parasitic fly larvae was reported in Texas this week 60 years after it was largely eradicated in the U.S. Screwworms […]
Reposted from https://www.theblaze.com/shows/conservative-review-with-daniel-horowitz/corporate-giants-vs-the-family-farm-new-initiative-targets-the-monopolies-pillaging-rural-america The American family farm is being systematically wiped out as corporate monopolies are taking over our food supply. That’s why Joe Maxwell of the Farm Action Fund […]
Kim Iverson interviews Farm Action Fund president Joe Maxwell on the launch of the Rural Independence Initiative and how Americans need to unite behind family farmers and healthy food.
Reposted from https://www.kaaltv.com/news/local-group-organizes-rally-outside-dfl-convention-to-advocate-for-family-farmers/ (ABC 6 News) – As the DFL Convention got underway in Rochester on Friday, a group of activists gathered outside the Mayo Civic Center to advocate for […]
The Hill | Farmers Are Defending the Law Big Pork Wants to Destroy Reposted from: https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5560964-pork-prices-california-congress/ I was taken aback by Duane Stateler’s Oct. 11 op-ed, “Pork prices are rising […]
The New York Times | Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown Reposted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/government-shutdown-effects.html Reverberations of the federal government shutdown, now in its second […]
The Hagstrom Report | War over California’s Prop 12 in DC this week Reposted from: https://www.tsln.com/news/war-over-californias-prop-12-in-dc-this-week/ The war over California’s Proposition 12, which requires that pork sold in the state […]
Brownfield Ag News | Two sides of Prop 12 Reposted from: https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/two-sides-of-prop-12/ Congress continues to contemplate federal legislation that would address California’s Proposition 12. Joe Maxwell, president of the political […]
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