posted on AmericanGrassfed.org Independent family farmers are being attacked by industrial food operations like Impossible Foods, which—simply to prop up the mass-production of fake food—is taking aim at regenerative agriculturalists. Our country’s current administration is actively denying climate change by burying scientific research that could help to guide us in predicting and mitigating the destructive…

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Howdy, Jim Hightower uses USDA’s latest net farm family income to put the farm crisis in perspective. He does a nice shout out to National Farmers Union and Farm Aid at the end. As I always say: “It is the moral responsibility of the stuck pig to squeal.” In full disclosure, I worked for Jim…

Greg and Taris Tellman talk to one of the participants of their community sale outside Ice Cream 4 Ice Cream on June 22 in Eugene. The Tellmans charge people ten dollars$10 to set up and sell items at the community sales, and Greg says that much of the time the vendors easily make that money…

by Andrew Wasley and Alexandra Heal | July 2, 2019 A special investigation from Andrew Wasley, Alexandra Heal and Lucy Michaels in London, Dominic Phillips, André Campos and Diego Junqueira in Sao Paulo and Claire Smyth in Belfast. If you eat meat, you probably buy products made by one Brazilian company. A company with such influence…

by Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | July 2, 2019 A Brazilian-owned meat processing company undercut its competition by more than $1 per pound to win nearly $78 million in pork contracts through a federal program launched to help American farmers offset the impact from an ongoing trade war. As a result, JBS USA has…

In the face of climate change and food supply issues, foundations are taking a new approach to food-system finance. (photo by LightFieldStudios /iStock) By Meredith Storton & Jennifer Astone | Jun. 27, 2019 Small farmers and food businesses are essential to building a resilient food system, but they need flexible, patient capital to thrive. Creating…

[Source Photos: David Malan/Getty Images, Matthias Clamer/Getty Images, MarBom/iStock] By Ainsley Harris | June 28, 2019 The sweeping framework—and surprisingly, Silicon Valley tech—could help soil-repairing practices like regenerative agriculture take off. By the time California rancher Doniga Markegard picks up the phone around lunchtime, she has already moved the chickens, fed the chickens, fed the…

Dave and Kay James stand among their grass-fed cattle in a field at the James Ranch this month. The couple started the farm in 1961 as newlyweds and recent college grads from Southern California. -photos by Christian Murdock, The Gazette by: Seth Boster | Jun 30, 2019 DURANGO • Something new grows at the James…

Graham and his brother Max, determined to keep, and regenerate, the family farm. Published on June 30, 2019 | By: Kerry Hoffschneider This article was first published in the York News-Times Graham Christensen sits in the machine shed at his family farm outside Oakland, Neb. The farm his Great Grandfather, Christian Christensen, settled to from…