by Jacob Dick, Messenger-Inquirer | Dec 2, 2018 Enforcement advocates say it’s business as usual for meat processors Between 2016 and 2018, the Perdue Farms chicken processing plant in Cromwell in Ohio County racked up 53 violations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for discharges into a public waterway and spent 644 days in violation….
by Peggy Lowe | Nov 16, 2018 On a busy football Saturday, fans on both sides of the Iowa-Nebraska line streamed into a tiny grocery store to pick up hamburger, soda and chips. Store manager Nick Johnson, a third-generation store owner in far southwest Iowa, has long had a front-row seat to the local economy….
by Sam Bloch | August 30th, 2018 The New Jersey Senator has introduced a bill to halt the mergers and acquisitions that have hamstrung small-scale producers for decades. On Wednesday, Cory Booker, the Democratic Senator from New Jersey, introduced a bill that would impose a temporary moratorium on mergers and acquisitions between large farm, food,…
by H. Claire Brown | November 29th, 2018 The poultry industry has funneled at least $580,000 into Arkansas congressional campaigns over the last few years. Between 2012 and 2018, American poultry growers received $1.8 billion in loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA). That’s three-quarters of the total loans that went to agricultural businesses overall…
https://www.thefencepost.com/news/usda-finalizes-management-changes-and-eliminates-gipsa/ USDA finalizes management changes and eliminates GIPSA -The Hagstrom Report November 30, 2018 Stokes Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue published in the Federal Register Thursday a final rule to make a number of management changes that the Trump administration has made in USDA, including the elimination of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration and…
As ag economy continues to struggle, farm bankruptcies rise MATT OLBERDING Lincoln Journal Star December 1, 2018 Farmers are filing for bankruptcy in Nebraska in numbers not seen in quite some time. Through October, there had been 25 Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings in in the state, already more than the 20 cases filed all of…