http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-whopper-deal/2014/09/09/7533 Speak Your Piece: A Whopper of a Deal Main Street Economics 09/10/2014 What do corporations get in return for their political contributions? Plenty. An agriculture policy professor argues that unlimited corporate money in politics hurts America’s working families. By C. Robert Taylor Cartoon by Monty Wolverton Burger King is in talks to buy Canadian…

NFU Board of Directors Votes to Withdraw from Beef Checkoff Working Group FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 6, 2014 Contact: Andrew Jerome, (202) 314-3106 ajerome National Farmers Union board of directors today voted to withdraw from the beef checkoff working group, effective immediately. NFU President Roger Johnson released the following statement: “After three years of pushing…

16th Annual Food and Agriculture Conference Colorado Springs, CO – September 19-20 Colorado College’s Celeste Theater 14 East Cache La Poudre St. Colorado Springs, CO 80903 This year we will coordinate our Annual Conference with the Colorado Springs Local Food Week. The Colorado Springs “Food Talks” Conference will bring together stakeholders from the private and…

A worker from Chile helps move hives at Dr. Lin’s farm in Pitt Meadows, B.C., on June 4, 2013. Honeybee colonies across Canada and the world are seeing a huge decline in numbers. (photo: Ben Nelms/The Globe and Mail) Beekeepers File Suit Against Pesticide Makers Over Bee Deaths By Eric Atkins, The Globe and Mail…

The Guns of August Posted on Aug 27, 2014 By Amy Goodman In her epic, Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Guns of August,” historian Barbara Tuchman detailed how World War I began in 1914, and how the belligerence, vanity and poor policies of powerful leaders led millions to gory deaths in that four-year conflagration. Before people…

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat By ANAHAD O’CONNORSEPT. 1, 2014 Credit iStock eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major new study shows. The findings are unlikely to…

South Korea lifts ban on beef with zilpaterol: report By Tom Johnston on 9/2/2014 South Korea’s food ministry has lifted a ban on the use of zilpaterol in beef, according to a report by Reuters. The move effectively allows imports of beef containing the growth-enhancing animal feed additive and domestic sales of the product in…

USDA to deem Argentina region as FMD-free By Tom Johnston on 9/1/2014 USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Friday proposed a rule to deem to an Argentine region as free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), ostensibly opening the door here for imports of beef from that region. APHIS said in its federal register notice…