by Nicole Erwin & Ohio Valley ReSource | May 17, 2018 Dairy farmer Gary Rock sits in his milking parlor, overlooking what is left of his 95-cow operation in LaRue County, Kentucky. “Three hundred years of history is something that a lot of people in our country cannot even talk about,” Rock said. That’s how…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | June 20, 2018 Legislation Would Restore Integrity and Transparency to an Out-of-Control Government Program Farm Groups Take on Checkoff-Funded Commodity Trade Associations WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 102 farm and food organizations called on the U.S. Senate to restore accountability and transparency to the commodity checkoff programs by supporting inclusion of the…
by Chris Petersen, Iowa View contributor | June 18, 2018 I am an American pig farmer. You might also say I’m an endangered species. In the late 1990s, nearly 40,000 hog producers went out of business — a loss that occurred in a two-year period just over one decade after the pork commodity checkoff was…
The entire industry knows the Big 4 packers are colluding to manipulate the cattle market. We must figure out how to stop them before we lose our critical mass of family-sized ranching operations. Once they are gone, it’s game over. Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA https://www.tsln.com/news/cattle-market-drop/ Tri-State Livestock News Sudden Slump: Feeders reeling after $10 drop…
by Twilight Greenaway | June 12, 2018 Lani Estill is serious about wool. And not just in a knitting-people-sweaters kind of way. Estill and her husband John own thousands of sweeping acres in the northwest corner of California, where they graze cattle and Rambouillet sheep, a cousin of the Merino with exceptionally soft, elastic wool….
By ROBIN MCDOWELL, MARGIE MASON and MARTHA MENDOZA | Jun. 15, 2018 MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — Even after winter storms left East Coast harbors thick with ice, some of the country’s top chefs and trendy restaurants were offering sushi-grade tuna supposedly pulled in fresh off the coast of New York. But it was just an…
by Tom Philpott | Jun. 15, 2018 Our northern neighbor didn’t cause our dairy crisis, but mimicking its policy might get us out of it. The recent G-7 meeting ended in chaos, with President Donald Trump trading zingers with his better-haired rival, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So now the United States is on the…
http://www.wnd.com/2018/06/globalization-is-killing-american-jobs-not-tariffs/ GLOBALIZATION IS KILLING AMERICAN JOBS – NOT TARIFFS Exclusive: Curtis Ellis says it’s international consolidation that’s hurt communities President Trump has declared the United States must have the ability to produce aluminum and steel here at home. He backed up his words with action and imposed an import tax, or tariff, to protect America’s…
Chicken: It’s what’s for dinner—with or without a checkoff program By: Jonathan Buttram June 14, 2018 They say this is the Golden Age of Poultry. Chicken consumption has hit an all-time high, outpacing beef, pork, and turkey. According to USDA estimates, beef was being consumed at 84.4 pounds per person per year in 1970. Today?…
by H. Claire Brown | June 14, 2018 But don’t blame farmers. Pressured to expand, they’re in an unenviable bind: Scale and risk polluting local waterways—or resist and risk their livelihoods. Last summer and fall, citizen-scientists in orange vests descended on waterways across southern Minnesota. They gathered water samples in stainless steel buckets from the…