By Rob Wolfe | February 07, 2018 West Lebanon — With milk prices declining to levels seen 20 years ago, the dairy co-op Agri-Mark this month sent farmers phone numbers for suicide prevention hotlines and other mental health services along with the latest market forecasts. The regional cooperative, which serves the six New England states…
by Fiona Harvey |Feb 8, 2018 Concerns raised over weakened regulations on imports in potential post-Brexit trade deals Livestock raised for food in the US are dosed with five times as much antibiotic medicine as farm animals in the UK, new data has shown, raising questions about rules on meat imports under post-Brexit trade deals….
St. Paul’s quote, “The husbandman that laboreth must be the first partaker of the fruits,” is cut in stone above the main entrance to the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington DC. Only one person I have talked to over the years in the USDA has known about the quote or where it was…
Did someone forward you this newsletter? Get your own copy by subscribing here. An ADM-Bunge Merger Would Drive More Concentration in Commodity Grains Commodity trader Archer Daniel Midlands (ADM) is in advanced talks to purchase fellow commodity trader Bunge, Bloomberg reported this week. That deal, if completed, would create a $34 billion grain company rivaling…
For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Proclaiming itself the freedom watchdog for American agriculture, the obscure nonprofit organization known as the Agribusiness Freedom Foundation (AFF) has devoted considerable resources over the past several years attempting to smear the reputation of R-CALF USA and its cattle-producing members….
By Katherine Paul | February 2, 2018 Newsweek is going to bat for a Monsanto shill. Henry Miller is at it again. Miller is the well-known Monsanto mouthpiece who earlier this year was discredited by the New York Times for getting Forbes magazine to publish an “opinion” piece under his name—a piece that was ghostwritten…
By Karen Tolkkinen | Jan 31, 2018 ALEXANDRIA, Minn.—There wasn’t really a last straw that made Billy Euerle walk away from his Garfield dairy farm last year. Things had been bad for several years. He trudged through his days, milking Hot Chocolate and Caroline and Brooke and all the others, barely sleeping. Facing terrible milk…
Colorado COOL measure rejected By Tom Johnston on 2/1/2018 Colorado legislators this week rejected a bill proposing the “Product of the USA” label be reserved in the state’s grocery stores only for beef derived exclusively from animals born, raised and slaughtered in the United States. The Colorado General Assembly’s House Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and…
February 1, 2018 Checkoff program funneled money from family farmers to support agribusiness lobbying against animal welfare reforms Media Contact: Kirsten Peek: 301-548-7793, kpeek@humanesociety.org Today, a federal district court in Washington issued a ruling in a lawsuit filed by The Humane Society of the United States halting the transfer of millions of dollars from a…
by Hayley Peterson | Feb. 1, 2018 Whole Foods has a new inventory-management system aimed at making stores more efficient and cutting down on food waste. And employees say the retailer’s method of ensuring compliance is crushing morale. The new system, called order-to-shelf, or OTS, has a strict set of procedures for purchasing, displaying, and…