by Nick Sibilla, Contributor A government official appears at a man’s door. The man has been breaking the law: He has sold bread baked at home. This isn’t a page from Kafka—it happened to Mark Stambler in Los Angeles. For decades, Stambler has followed traditional methods to bake loaves of French bread. The ingredients are…
By Mike Weaver Published April 27, 2017 I am a chicken farmer in West Virginia. I’ve been a farmer all my life and have raised chickens for almost 15 years under contract. I am writing this open letter to you because farmers and ranchers need your help badly. I voted for you and supported your…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2017 Media Contacts: Bill Bullard, 406-252-2516, billbullard@r-calfusa.com Angela Huffman, 614-390-7552, ahuffman@competitivemarkets.com Over 250,000 Farmers, Organizations, and Businesses Urge Congress to Pass Meaningful Checkoff Program Reform WASHINGTON, D.C. – In letters to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, more than 80 organizations, representing over 250,000 ranchers, farmers and businesses called…
On Maryland’s Delmarva Peninsula, an emerging trend of anti-CAFO zoning laws April 25th , 2017 by Joe Fassler Commissioners in Worcester County, Maryland, on Tuesday unanimously voted to make things tougher on one of its largest employers: the local chicken industry. By passing County Bill 17-3, which creates a separate, more stringent zoning classification for…
Cargill to sell remaining two feedyards in Colorado, Kansas Company redeploying working capital to fuel additional protein business growth. Apr 26, 2017 Cargill has reached an agreement to sell its beef cattle feedyards at Leoti, Kan., and Yuma, Colo., to Omaha, Neb.-based Green Plains Inc., a vertically integrated ethanol producer with existing feedyards in Kismet,…
By Caitlin Dewey April 25 at 2:18 PM President Trump is escalating his tough talk on Canada, vowing to fight that country’s trade stance on milk after the Commerce Department imposed a punishing tariff on Canadian softwood lumber on Monday. On Twitter Tuesday morning, Trump said that “Canada has made business for our dairy farmers…
April 24, 2017 Five of the ‘Big 6’ agricultural corporations looking to merge Getty Images/iStockphoto | iStockphoto Green corn plants.Sunrise over the field. Mergers between five of the "Big Six" agricultural chemical and seed corporations — Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Pioneer; ChemChina and Syngenta; Bayer and Monsanto — are raising concerns for farmers nationwide….
Huffington Post United Technologies Just Got More Lucrative Government Contracts After Offshoring 1,000 Carrier Jobs to Mexico 04/25/2017 10:14 am ET Lori Wallach, Contributor Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Director Why Isn’t Trump Even Doing the Obvious to Stop Job Offshoring? United Technologies, the firm President Donald Trump spotlighted with his threat to punish companies…
By David Roberts on Apr 17, 2013 The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public health costs, but the public, not the polluting businesses, picks…
Bankers’ & views on farm credit conditions In our recent meetings with farm groups, one topic that regularly came up was farm operating loans. Nearly everyone had a story to tell. Some knew of neighbors who were unable to get financing for the 2017 crop. Others heard that bankers had told a neighbor that they…