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The New Lede | Most Iowa Voters Oppose Bid to Override State Animal Welfare Laws, Poll Shows

The New Lede | Most Iowa Voters Oppose Bid to Override State Animal Welfare Laws, Poll Shows

Voters in the key US farm state of Iowa overwhelmingly reject efforts to weaken state…

1540 KXEL Radio (Iowa) | Interview with John Gilbert on the Save Our Bacon Act

1540 KXEL Radio (Iowa) | Interview with John Gilbert on the Save Our Bacon Act

1540 KXEL Radio hosted Iowa farmer John Gilbert to discuss a new poll showing Iowans…

Politico Weekly Agriculture | Exclusive Part 2: Iowa Poll on Save Our Bacon Act

Politico Weekly Agriculture | Exclusive Part 2: Iowa Poll on Save Our Bacon Act

MA EXCLUSIVE PART 2: A July poll out of Iowa found that nearly twice as many voters oppose…

American Prospect: The Meat Industry’s Tireless Effort to Keep Live Pigs in Coffins

American Prospect: The Meat Industry’s Tireless Effort to Keep Live Pigs in Coffins

Since the 1980s, Congress has been required to pass a new farm bill, the omnibus…

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…

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