by Joe Fassler | November 13th, 2018 Amazon chose the country’s two most powerful metro areas for its new headquarters. The choice signals the company’s vast ambition in policy, media, and physical retail. But what will residents of Arlington and New York get in return? Amazon officially announced its HQ2 decision on Tuesday morning, ending…

by Brian Barth | November 5, 2018 The last time the Farm Aid hotline rang like this, Ronald Reagan was president and Willie Nelson was playing a huge concert to raise money for hundreds of thousands of farmers across the country who were facing financial ruin. By the autumn of 1985, America’s “farm crisis” was…

by Dan Gunderson | November 8, 2018 Jesse Hall is sold on regenerative agriculture. “It crumbles, and it looks like chocolate cake,” Hall said. “Once it’s got the consistency of chocolate cake, and it’s spongy, that’s what you want.” And it’s got more life in it, too, from invisible bacteria to earthworms. “I can’t even…

A Sweeping Victory for Free Speech & A Stinging Defeat for Wyoming’s Ag-Gag Law Paul Bland for Public Justice Community Tuesday October 30, 2018 · 8:29 AM PDT At the behest of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and U.S. Chamber of Commerce — two powerful front groups for industrial agriculture companies and their factory…

November 5, 2018 For Immediate Release: Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Today, the federal district court in Montana granted R-CALF USA’s motion to expand its beef checkoff program lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include at least 13 states in addition to Montana. The district…

Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified Thursday at the Federal Trade Commission’s hearing on the “Consumer Welfare” philosophy of antimonopoly enforcement. He said the philosophy was largely to blame for the monopoly crisis America faces today, and that it continues to blind enforcers and courts to the political and economic dangers of extreme concentration….

by Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register | Nov. 2, 2018 TOLEDO, Iowa – Eric Lyon stands in a massive dairy barn in eastern Iowa that until recently held about 320 cows. The third-generation Iowa dairy farmer began selling off his family’s purebred Jersey herd a year ago, ending 95 years of milking. He no longer…

by Jack Healy | Nov. 3, 2018 ARMENIA, Wis. — The groundwater that once ran cool and clean from taps in this Midwestern farming town is now laced with contaminants and fear. People refuse to drink it. They won’t brush their teeth with it. They dread taking showers. Rural communities call it their own, private…

by Tracy Frisch | November 2018 Stacy Mitchell On How Amazon Undermines Local Economies Every year Americans make more and more purchases online, many of them at Amazon.com. What shoppers don’t see when browsing the selections at Amazon are the many ways the online store is transforming the economy. Our country is losing small businesses….

by Mike Eby | Chairman, Board for the National Dairy Producers Organization | November 1, 2018 I read with great interest a Daily Caller op-ed written by Marty Irby about the need for reform within the commodity checkoff program. Irby, in his role with Animal Wellness Action, works daily to support sustainable, pasture-based farms and…