Beef is next! Today’s court ruling threatens to choke off a $60 million federal revenue stream to fund the political activities of the pork industry’s chief lobbying organization, the National Pork Producers Council. Photo by iStockphoto Federal Court Victory May Carve Up Big Pork Scheme August 14, 2015 Share

Robert E. Scott | Economic Policy Institute For Immediate Release August 13, 2015 Contact: Carolyn Bobb, 202-637-5018 China’s Currency Devaluation Deepens Unfair Trade Practices AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement after China’s latest currency manipulation: China’s recent currency devaluation – by nearly 4% on Tuesday and Wednesday – provides further confirmation that the…

Stockgrowers Re-affirm support for COOL Call on Congress to resist language that weakens labels The South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Board of Directors met last week and voted unanimously to re-affirm member developed policy calling for Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling. The Stockgrowers Association called on Congress and the Senate to reject recent proposals that would…

US Country-of-Origin-Labeling: The political haggling continues With the US House of Representatives in recess and a repeal of Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) attached to a highway bill in the US Senate but facing unified Democratic opposition and the support of a few Republicans, it is looking increasingly unlikely that any COOL legislation will see action before…

Voluntary COOL – What Is In It For Us? By Gilles Stockton The argument for supporting the Stabenow/Hoeven proposal for a voluntary Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) program reduces to – if we do not support voluntary COOL we will have nothing to show for the years of effort. That may be so, but we…

If our small farms are allowed to wither, the whole nation will suffer Last week, smallholders took direct action over supermarkets’ failure to pay them a fair price. Here, a dairy farmer warns that their demise will deprive the country of skills that we can ill afford to lose Dairy farmer Patrick Holden at his…

Logistics a key to local food systems By MICHAEL STRAND Salina Journal Aug 5, 2015OK, so your gardening project was a success, and you’ve got 10 bushels of tomatoes sitting on the back porch. Now what? Helping food producers answer questions like that — long before they’re in that predicament — was part of the…

Forbes BUSINESS 8/07/2015 @ 10:06AM 23 views John Brinkley Contributor Man Bites Dog: Republicans Accede to a Foreign Body’s Demand Did you ever think you’d see congressional Republicans repeal a federal law in subservience to a foreign organization? After the World Trade Organization ruled that a U.S. country-of-origin food labeling regulation was unfair to countries…

9 CEOs paid 800 times more than their workers Matt Krantz, USA TODAY 10:42 a.m. EDT August 6, 2015 Bloomberg’s David Gura reports on the United States Securities and Exchange Commission voting to back rules forcing companies to compare CEO and worker pay. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets." Bloomberg (Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images) Companies…

Rebecca Thistlethwaite Yet another VC funded tech start-up that is trying to be a ‘good food’ middleman goes under. This does not surprise me. First off, where are the margins to support these entities (esp. when farmers are still making teeny, tiny margins)? Second, when you start off with millions you don’t create a lean,…