Suicide Is Rising Among American Farmers As They Struggle To Keep Afloat LISTEN·3:373:37PLAYLIST · DOWNLOAD May 16, 20184:19 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered KELSEY SNELL Farm-state lawmakers are concerned that political fighting about the "Farm Bill" could endanger a critical rural safety net and deepen a growing mental health crisis among farmers. Suicide…
Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg Foreign meat makes up the bulk of an increasingly sought-after product. Perdue Farms is hoping a new acquisition will revive domestic sales. By Deena Shanker |May 23, 2019 If you’ve eaten grass-fed beef in America over the past few years, chances are the cows weren’t raised in the U.S., even if the…
Firsthand Foods is a Durham-based company that supplies local restaurants, institutions, and consumers with pasture-raised meat from small, local farms. by Layla Khoury-Hanold | May 6, 2019 From the ingredients splayed on the wooden board, I nestle rosy slices of meat inside a lettuce leaf and dip it in a chili-garlic sauce. The flavor is…
For Immediate Release Over 200 Farm, Food and Rural Groups Support Agribusiness Merger Moratorium Bills Coalition Urges Members of Congress to Cosponsor Vital Legislation Washington, D.C. — Today, a broad-based coalition of 219 farm, food, rural, faith and consumer advocacy organizations delivered a letter to Congress endorsing food and agribusiness merger moratorium bills introduced by…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 22, 2019 CONTACTS Jean Lemire Dahlman, Forsyth, MT rancher and Northern Plains Resource Council member, (406) 351-9921 Dustin Ogdin, Communications Director, Northern Plains, (406) 248-1154 Maggie Gordon, Organizer, Northern Plains, (406) 248-1154 Bill placing moratorium on agribusiness mergers introduced in U.S. Congress Legislation seeks to address structural disadvantages imposed on family…
USDA Announces New Packers and Stockyards Act Regulations to be Issued May 22, 2019 OCM Staff Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced it will invite the public to comment on new proposed revisions to regulations under the Packers & Stockyards Act in compliance with a 2008 congressional mandate by the Bush administration….
Story by Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business, Video by Bronte Lord, CNN Business, Photographs by Dina Litovsk | Published May 17, 2019 Running a supermarket in America has never been harder. Profits are razor thin. Online shopping and home delivery are changing the way people buy their food. Dollar stores and drugstores are selling more groceries….
Published Wednesday, May 15, 2019 EDITORIAL BY ART CULLEN President Trump is worsening an economic disaster by ratcheting up a trade war with China. On Friday the US announced new tariffs on a wide range of Chinese imports, to which China retaliated on Monday by hiking tariffs on soy, pork and poultry. Soybean futures markets…
by Trevor Reid | May 16, 2019 Steam rises in the air at the JBS Meat Packing Plant in Greeley in this 2013 Tribune file photo. (Jim Rydbom/For The Tribune) JBS USA will receive another $40 million in federal subsidies through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s bailout program meant to help U.S. farmers negatively impacted…
by Chris Sommerfeldt | May 16, 2019 Joesley and Wesley Batista, owners of Brazil-based meat-packing company JBS SA, are pictured in separate file photos. (AFP/Getty Images) The Trump administration has forked over more than $62 million — taxpayer cash that was supposed to be earmarked for struggling American farmers — to a massive meatpacking company…