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AgWeek | After 8 Years, Prop 12 Still Creates Sizzling Debate Over Hog Confinement

AgWeek | After 8 Years, Prop 12 Still Creates Sizzling Debate Over Hog Confinement

Nolan and Trisha Zachman raise pigs without gestation crates at Feathered Acres Learning Farm and Inn in…

AgWeek TV | The Fight Over California’s Prop 12 Continues for Pork Industry

AgWeek TV | The Fight Over California’s Prop 12 Continues for Pork Industry

Proposition 12 continues to be controversial among pork producers. It prohibits the sale of pork in…

Washington Post | Farmers Backed Trump. Now Some Say They’re Losing Patience.

Washington Post | Farmers Backed Trump. Now Some Say They’re Losing Patience.

Scott Thomsen is a fourth-generation Nebraska farmer and three-time voter for President Donald Trump. For…

Public News Service | Nebraska Voters Asked to Back Candidates who Support Rural Interests

Public News Service | Nebraska Voters Asked to Back Candidates who Support Rural Interests

Rural advocacy groups have launched an initiative to raise awareness of rural issues and support…

American Prospect | Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You

American Prospect | Why That Next Hamburger Is Going to Cost You

The primary driver of inflation in the U.S. economy—the forever war in Iran—has not yet taken…

Washington Post | Early Brief – What We’re Watching on Screwworm

Washington Post | Early Brief – What We’re Watching on Screwworm

What’s a screwworm? Bad news. The invasive species of parasitic fly larvae was reported in Texas…

The Blaze | Corporate Giants vs. the Family Farm: New Initiative Targets the Monopolies Pillaging Rural America

The Blaze | 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…

The Kim Iverson Show | MAHA Is Now Leaving MAGA Behind (Interview with Joe Maxwell)

The Kim Iverson Show | MAHA Is Now Leaving MAGA Behind (Interview with Joe Maxwell)

Kim Iverson interviews Farm Action Fund president Joe Maxwell on the launch of the Rural…

The Hill | Farmers Are Defending the Law Big Pork Wants to Destroy

The Hill | Farmers Are Defending the Law Big Pork Wants to Destroy

I was taken aback by Duane Stateler’s Oct. 11 op-ed, “Pork prices are rising thanks…

The New York Times | Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

The New York Times | Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

Reverberations of the federal government shutdown, now in its second week, are starting to be…

The Hagstrom Report | War over California’s Prop 12 in DC this week

The Hagstrom Report | War over California’s Prop 12 in DC this week

The war over California’s Proposition 12, which requires that pork sold in the state come…

Brownfield Ag News | Two sides of Prop 12

Brownfield Ag News | Two sides of Prop 12

Congress continues to contemplate federal legislation that would address California’s Proposition 12. Joe Maxwell, president…

The Center Square | U.S. House Panel Discusses California Law’s Impact on Prices

The Center Square | U.S. House Panel Discusses California Law’s Impact on Prices

Tension filled the room at the U.S. House Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday morning as representatives…

The Hill | Cory Booker Bill Would Protect Americans’ Right to Sue Pesticide Makers for Poisoning

The Hill | Cory Booker Bill Would Protect Americans’ Right to Sue Pesticide Makers for Poisoning

New legislation introduced Thursday by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) would protect Americans’ ability to sue pesticide manufacturers in federal…

Civil Eats | Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker Introduces Bill to ‘Honor Farmer Contracts’

Civil Eats | Exclusive: Senator Cory Booker Introduces Bill to ‘Honor Farmer Contracts’

Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) will introduce a bill today that would require the USDA…

Agri-Pulse | Trump Administration Could Decide Fate of USDA Competition Rules

Agri-Pulse | Trump Administration Could Decide Fate of USDA Competition Rules

When President Donald Trump took office in 2017 for the first time, his Agriculture Department…

The New York Times | A Good Reason for Rural Rage: The Crushing Power of Corporate Meat

The New York Times | A Good Reason for Rural Rage: The Crushing Power of Corporate Meat

It’s no secret that rural Americans are angry with the Washington elite. Less discussed are…

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