by H. Claire Brown | September 11th, 2018 Previous storms prompted manure-related environmental disasters. This week, North Carolina could get very smelly. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than a million people are under mandatory evacuation orders in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina as Hurricane Florence draws closer to the coast. Meteorologists are predicting that…

by Mary Pols | September 9, 2018 Fierce competition from Canada, a glutted marketplace and inequitable USDA buybacks have made cultivating this iconic Maine crop a brutal business. BARING — Greg Bridges was aware his wild blueberry fields in Washington County were looking ragged. There was fruit to be had, but it was far sparser…

by Joe Maxwell, Executive Director, Organization For Competitive Markets | September 12, 2018 The op-ed, “HSUS, R-CALF, OCM: Guilt by Association?”, raises questions and makes false insinuations about the relationship between the two organizations and OCM’s sources of funding, according to Joe Maxwell. (Wyatt Bechtel) Editor’s note: The following commentary is in response to “HSUS,…

By Chris Bennett, Farm Journal, Technology and Issues Editor | September 11, 2018 Camera in hand and a thousand miles from home, a Nebraska farm boy stepped off a tour bus and already knew the drill, whether in an expanse of wheat in Montana or a row of cotton in Mississippi. The 10-year-old clicked his…

by Wanda Thibodeaux, Copywriter, TakingDictation.com The way you connect to other companies and industries is a web bigger than you ever imagined. In early August, San Francisco jurors awarded former groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $298 million in a lawsuit alleging that exposure to Roundup, a popular weedkiller manufactured by Monsanto, had caused his terminal cancer. That…

by Siena Chrisman, FARMING, Food Policy, Rural Environment and Agriculture Project | September 10, 2018 Farmers across the country are in a state of emergency with dairy and grain producers, new farmers, and farmers of color being hit the hardest. Joe Schroeder works as a farm advocate for Farm Aid, where he answers calls to…

by David Streitfeld | Sept. 7, 2018 With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law. The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University’s law library. “Antitrust Dilemma.” “The Antitrust Impulse.” “Antitrust in an Expanding Economy.” Shelf after shelf of volumes ignored for decades. There are…

Contributing Author: Sarah Axe For almost 50 years, Alice Waters has used food as a catalyst for social, environmental, and political change. Now, she is advocating that schools across California adopt a pledge to offer a “free, sustainable school lunch for all students K-12.” Waters proposes that schools source their food directly from farmers and…

by Sam Bloch & Joe Fassler | September 6th, 2018 “We cannot let Amazon remake the entire North American retail landscape without embracing the full value of its team members.” Updated September 6, 4:25 p.m., EST: A group of Whole Foods Market workers on Thursday sent an email to employees at most of the grocery…

Media Contact: Bill Bullard, R-CALF USA CEO r-calfusa, (406) 252-2516 Group Files Reply in Beef Checkoff Case Billings, Mont. – Today R-CALF USA, through its attorneys, filed its reply in the federal district court in Montana to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) opposition to the group’s motion to expand the scope of their beef…