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July 1, 2026  In Press Release 24 grantees win preliminary injunction restoring critical support for a fairer food system A federal district court has issued an order restoring the grants of 24 organizations and local governments who had grant agreements under the USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access (LCM) Program. In an opinion granting the groups’ motion…

The Stringer Bell rule is obsolete, as Trump let big egg producers off the hook for what looks like a brazen multi-year conspiracy. Still, egg prices did drop as a result of the investigation. Matt Stoller Jul 01, 2026 A few days ago, 18 states and the DOJ Antitrust Division signed a series of decrees…

Josh Reyes6.29.26Omaha World Herald LINCOLN — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted Nebraska’s request to sue Colorado over long-ago negotiated access to water from the South Platte River, which flows east through Colorado and into Nebraska.  Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers called the decision “huge news” in a statement on social media site X. …

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Darwin Nissley and other Eastern producers are bracing for higher trucking costs and tighter margins as JBS exits Pennsylvania. Chris Torres, Editor,American Agriculturist June 23, 2026 A worker feeds a group of feeder cattle at Nissley Brothers Farm in Mount Joy, Pa. The farm is directly affected by JBS’ decision to close its Souderton, Pa.,…

Today, the Senate Agriculture Committee released its 2026 Farm Bill text. The bill avoids some of the most harmful provisions included in the House version, including the effort to overturn California’s Proposition 12 and other state protections. But significant concerns remain. The bill fails to adequately invest in local and regional food systems, further weakens…

“Unfortunately, monoculture industrialized agriculture and the world of oil and gas development has turned what I consider my homeland – the open grassland region – into a sacrificial zone for multinational corporate interests.” See June newsletter: https://ranchfoodsdirect.com/…/RFDJune2026Newsltr.pdf

Callicrate note: What JBS does with it’s ill gotten gains from pillaging and plundering U.S. producers and consumers. JBS is also planning where to go when the Ogallala Aquifer is dried up, and other natural resources are gone. Greg Gunthorp comment: “Instead of “feeding the world” maybe it would be more appropriate to say we…

WHAT ON OLD FARMER SAID       This is the advice of an old man that has tilled the soil for forty years:       I am an old man, upwards of three score years, during two scores of which I have been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that I am now, but I…

June 1, 2026 For the past half-century, this country’s agricultural policy has been anti-rural. By Gilles Stockton The recent reversal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on American Prairie’s (AP) permit to graze bison on public land is a narrow administrative ruling on whether the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 allows bison to graze…