Cattle groups present united front: Producer groups call on congress, DOJ to address imbalance in cattle and beef markets Progressive Farmer Chris Clayton May 17, 2021 Cattle industry leaders are united — that’s just how angry they are about losses feeders are taking while packer industry profits continue to soar. The major producer groups are…

May 17, 2021 Candace Krebs The Ag Journal “As Arax writes of a childhood friend, an Armenian whose family was once neighbors to his own: “His father, mostly a gentle man, could turn fierce out of nowhere. He reserved a special anger for the thugs from Sun-Maid. To stay in business, the co-op had to…

The Biggest Ideas in Farming Today Are Also the Oldest Georgia cattle raiser Will Harris left behind the destructive techniques of modern agriculture, charting a new path forward for the livestock industry. By Amanda Little May 15, 2021, 6:00 AM MDT Will Harris: “Nature is so much smarter than we are.” Photographer: Amanda Little/Bloomberg Amanda…

Dollar General seeks to reshape small towns By Brian Depew on May 10, 2021 Protecting our communities from these corporate interests is difficult, but here are a few strategies to consider. Small Towns Dollar General has become a ubiquitous feature of America’s small towns. The discount retailer is opening new stores at a rate of…

Yes, Kansas, there’s a war on beef — but not the one Roger Marshall’s talking about By Tucker Graff May 8, 2021 If we don’t act now to break the monopoly of four meatpacking companies, 50 years from now we’ll be having the same conversation about preserving the beef industry but with even fewer ranchers…

Policy and Personnel Wins for a Better Rural America April 29, 2021 Policy Progress in Our Food System Democratizing our food system is a heavy lift, but in just four months, the Farm Action team has made substantial progress towards actualizing this vision. In January, we released a transition paper for the Biden-Harris team titled…

https://nationalpost.com/news/a-brief-terrifying-history-of-viruses-escaping-from-labs-70s-chinese-pandemic-was-a-lab-mistake The danger of a manmade pandemic sparked by a laboratory escape is not hypothetical Apr 11, 2014 • January 25, 2015 • 10 minute read • Join the conversation PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images The public health danger posed by potentially pandemic-causing viruses escaping from laboratories has become the subject of considerable discussion, spurred by “gain…

The Hog Baron 19 April, 2021 08:14 How Iowa’s largest hog producer courted power, turned farming into a numbers game, and transformed the American heartland. By Charlie Mitchell and Austin Frerick Updated Apr 19, 2021, 8:00am EDT Photographs by Kathryn Gamble for Vox. A CAFO, or concentrated animal feeding operation, outside of Rockwell City, Iowa….

To Bust Monopoly Power, Start With the Companies Controlling Our Food Busting the monopoly power of abusive and arrogant food giants is broadly popular—even in Congress. by Jim Hightower Tyson Food and Hillshire Brands food products are seen on May 29, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Tyson Foods made a $ 6.8 billion all-cash proposal to…

Global meatpackers filet U.S. taxpayers again and again Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, April 11, 2021 Alan Guebert Like many global meatpacking companies, JBS SA, the giant Brazilian meat and poultry packer with extensive operations in North and South America, Europe, and Australia, spent most of the last six months buying…