by Raj Patel, Saru Jayaraman, John W. Boyd Jr., Lindsey Shute, Dana Perls and Zoë Carpenter | October 11, 2017 How do we build a just, sustainable food system? Something strange and troubling is sweeping the fields of New Morning Farm in South Central Pennsylvania. Over the past few years, Jim Crawford has watched unfamiliar…
Brazil prosecutors charge Batista brothers with insider trading Reuters Staff SAO PAULO, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors on Tuesday charged brothers Wesley and Joesley Batista, the controlling shareholders of JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, with insider trading and market manipulation. Prosecutors said in a statement that the Batistas carried out stock and foreign…
by Steve Holt | October 10, 2017 Veteran journalist Carey Gillam’s new book sheds light on the ongoing battle over glyphosate, the nation’s most commonly used herbicide. Want to start a fight at a state fair, agriculture show, or meeting of the European Commission? Get farmers, consumers, and politicians discussing Monsanto, genetic engineering, and pesticide…
By Bruce Finley | October 8, 2017 Farmers say they’re trying to wean from groundwater, but admit there are no easy answers amid pressures of corn prices, urban growth and interstate water agreements WRAY — Colorado farmers who defied nature’s limits and nourished a pastoral paradise by irrigating drought-prone prairie are pushing ahead in the…
By AD CRABLE | Oct 7, 2017 LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Elmer Petersheim of Manheim is a typical small Amish dairy farmer in Lancaster County. He has invested heavily in cows and related machinery over the last 17 years. Now, with depressed milk prices seven out of the last eight years, Petersheim is in debt…
Hello friends, The latest episode of ILSR’s Building Local Power podcast is an interview with Barry Lynn of the Open Market Institute. If you want to learn more about the changes in policy that gave rise to today’s monopolies, why their power is both economic and political in nature, and how a new anti-monopoly movement…
by Erica Shaffer | Oct. 5, 2017 TONKAWA, Okla. – The Organization for Competitive Markets is continuing to push back against checkoff fees with its latest complaint filed with the Office of the Inspector General of the US Dept. of Agriculture. The group alleges that the Oklahoma Beef Council and the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association are…
Did someone forward you this newsletter? Get your own copy by subscribing here. Big Beef Seeks to Expand its Tax on Oklahoma Ranchers Big Ag is back on the offensive in Oklahoma, less than a year after voters defeated a bill that would have stripped the state’s residents of their ability to regulate corporate farming….
by Carol Ryan Dumas | October 2, 2017 Nearly $427 million was collected for the dairy checkoff program in 2016. Dairy farmers are assessed 15 cents per hundredweight of milk they produce and importers are assessed 7.5 cents per hundredweight of milk (or the equivalent) they import. The Organization for Competitive Markets and the National…
Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa www.r-calfusa.com Ranch Group Lists Beneficial Impacts from Beef Checkoff Lawsuit Billings, Mont. – In a paper issued today titled "The Montana Checkoff Decision: Beneficial Impacts on Montana Ranchers," ranch group R-CALF USA explains how the federal district court ruling in its beef checkoff lawsuit empowers…