By Madelyn Beck | May 3, 2018 New research suggests that no-till farming could help mitigate climate change. A study from Iowa State University, released Monday, examined Midwest land use between 1850 to 2015. As agriculture and the practice of tilling spread, less carbon was being stored in the ground and more was going into…
This article puts the major subsectors of agriculture in perspective vis a vis the China trade issues and draws comparisons with Brazil’s subsidized overcapacity, as well Brazil’s weaponized investment in US ag biz. Lifezette chose the headline, rejecting ours which was more accurate. The better headline would have been “China has surprisingly little leverage with…
By Tamar Hallerman | May 4, 2018 LIMA, Ohio — It was clear U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was in his element as a brown and tan RV whisked him through this frigid slice of the Great Lakes region on a recent government road trip. The former Georgia governor had spent the morning at a…
by Amy Halloran | May 3rd, 2018 Blame America’s commodity grains infrastructure. But a new generation of farmers, bakers, and millers are trying to build a market for what is currently unfeasible: flour with a backstory. Who doesn’t have a soft spot for their local bakery? There’s nothing like the smell of bread baking as…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2018 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome Farmer’s Share of Retail Food Dollar Hits New Low WASHINGTON – For every dollar consumers spend on food, the farmer receives just 14.8 cents, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The figure represents a 5 percent decrease from the previous year’s data…
Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa www.r-calfusa.com Group Urges Trump Administration to Block Sale of National Beef Billings, Mont. – In a letter sent yesterday to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, R-CALF USA urges the Trump Administration officials to block the proposed sale of the…
Trump selects key witness from pink slime case as nation’s top food safety chief By Christine Haughney and Liz Crampton 05/04/2018 11:48 AM EDT President Donald Trump on Friday named Mindy M. Brashears, director of the International Center for Food Industry Excellence at Texas Tech University whose testimony helped Beef Products, Inc. with its defamation…
By Stephen Franklin, Kristine Sherred, Jessica Villagomez, Zhejun Wang, Joseph Bullington and Kari Lydersen | April 30, 2018 How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust. SPRINGFIELD, ILL.—Work was rapidly vanishing. Mary Wilson’s construction projects on farms, nearly a third of her business, had disappeared, and she was…
by Leah Douglas | May 2, 2018 With a trade war looming, commodity prices swooning, and the dairy industry in full-blown crisis, a growing number of American farmers are embracing a controversial set of farm policies that would manage the country’s commodity production and stabilize crop prices. The policies, known as supply management, governed U.S….
by Rowan Walrath | May 1, 2018 Milk pricing policies have left small producers at their wit’s end. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says…