WikiCommons Courtesy of ArnoldReinhold by Sarah Mock | April 15, 2019 Why We Can’t Consume Our Way to a Better Food System Being an agriculture reporter, I hear a lot of speeches, decrees and diatribes about why people eat organic, vegetarian, or vegan, when they started avoiding gluten or dairy, or how they got turned on…
French cereal farmer Paul Francois, head of the Phyto-Victims association, attends a news conference after the verdict in his appeals trial against U.S. Monsanto firm, in Paris, France. (photo: Charles Platiau/Reuters) by Simon Carraud and Catherine Lagrange, Reuters | April 12, 2019 A French court has ruled that Monsanto was liable for the sickness of…
by Tim Lynch | April 4, 2019 This was a very insightful interview with a talented and gifted communicator who at heart, is deeply embedded into the land and nature. Nature is our teacher Darren as a child was influenced very much by his grandfather who had a wide ranging understanding of farming in the…
Young hogs owned by pork industry giant Smithfield Foods gather around water at a farm in Farmville, N.C. Gerry Broome/AP Images by Leah Douglas | April 12, 2019 Every state has a “right-to-farm” law on the books to protect farmers from being sued by their neighbors for the routine smells and noise created by farming…
by Laura Reiley, Andrew Van Dam | April 13, 2019 © Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post Foster Gettys, right and Rachel Clement pick greens at the Owl’s Nest Farm. (Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) The Agriculture Department’s newly released 2017 Census of Agriculture is 820 pages of graphs, tables and puzzling shifts (half as…
click to view Small-dairy farmers are getting squeezed out by corporate agriculture. “That is not what America is about,” a struggling farmer said. by Phil McCausland | June 30, 2018 SMITHFIELD, Ky. — All Curtis Coombs wanted was to raise cows and run his family’s dairy farm in this slice of Kentucky hill country, less…
For many down on the farm, the wolf is at the door Tuesday, April 9, 2019 We hate to sound like the little boy who cried wolf, but for US farmers there really is a wolf out there and that wolf is called low prices. While the pain is not evenly spread across the nation…
by Claire Kelloway | April 11, 2019 Last month, the nation’s fourth-largest beef packer, National Beef, announced plans to take over Sysco-owned Iowa Premium, a regional packer focused on processing Black Angus steers for the Upper Midwest. National Beef is majority owned by Brazilian firm Marfrig. While this deal may seem innocuous compared to blockbuster…
by AGDAILY Staff | April 10, 2019 The hardships in agriculture are becoming ever more relevant to those invested in the industry, but especially future farmers. Some times you feel so defeated, that you just need to vent and try to educate others on the real situation. Mark Berg, a dairy farmer, breaks down and…
by Leah Douglas Every state has a “right-to-farm” law on the books to protect farmers from being sued by their neighbors for the routine smells and noise created by farming operations. But this year, the agriculture industry has been pushing in several states to amend those laws so that they will effectively prevent neighbors from…