By Gilles Stockton | 9/11/2017 The discussion over the future of NAFTA is heating up. The commodity organizations deny any problems in the existing agreement and demand no changes, a position no doubt dictated to them by the global Big Ag corporations. The reality that I lived through tells a different story. Right from the…
September 10, 2017 BRASILIA (Reuters) – Billionaire Joesley Batista, one of the owners of JBS SA, the world´s largest meatpacker, and executive Ricardo Saud surrendered on Sunday and were arrested by Brazilian police, their lawyer said. Batista and Saud went to federal police headquarters in Sao Paulo on Sunday afternoon and will be transferred to…
by HEATHER KENNISON TWIN FALLS — Kirk Collins likes to order beef from people he knows. He looks for cattle that haven’t been given hormones or antibiotics and have been fed and raised in a pasture. “It’s not like they come out of a feedlot,” the Hailey man said. “Generally, they get a good cow…
By Matt Rales | May 7, 2009 The Truth Behind the U.N. Assault on Ruminant Livestock In late November of 2006, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released a startling report. Its official title is “Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options.”1 References to this report have been frequent in the last year, especially…
By Bill Freese / AlterNet September 8, 2017 Monsanto’s GE cotton and soybeans were made to be resistant to an herbicide that drifts to nearby crops. Bill Bader is Missouri’s largest peach grower, supplying produce to retailers throughout the mid-South. But the last two years have found him struggling to save his farm. Thousands of…
By Kerry Hoffschneider | Aug 29, 2017 Art Cullen, water, denial and the Pulitzer Prize Art Cullen, Pulitzer Prize winning editorialist and co-owner of The Storm Lake Times isn’t caught up in awards or accolades. What he does want us to all understand is the water situation in Iowa, and across the country, that is…
Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities, published as a partnership between the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s agencies of Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service focuses on regional food systems as a…