Meat processing plant coming to Mott VIDEO by: Robert Suhr Posted: Sep 30, 2020 / 09:10 PM CDT / Updated: Sep 30, 2020 / 09:36 PM CDT After a year of planning, 50 mile an hour winds couldn’t stop the ceremonial shovels from hitting the ground. It was a “who’s who” of North Dakota dignitaries…
WSJ NEWSLETTER Six Chicken-Industry Officials Indicted for Price Fixing New charges expand Justice Department’s antitrust case in ongoing probe of poultry industry Prosecutors alleged the price-fixing took place from 2012 into early 2019. PHOTO: DANE RHYS/REUTERS By Jacob Bunge and Brent Kendall Oct. 7, 2020 Six current and former chicken-industry executives have been indicted on…
Hit by too much rain, then drought, a derecho and the pandemic, Iowa farmers roll into a harvest unlike any before Donnelle Eller Des Moines Register RADCLIFFE, Iowa — On a late September day, Denny Friest deftly reversed the direction of his corn head, spewing out a large knot of tangled, downed stalks that had…
USFSA Statement in Defense of Agroecology and the Right to Food Posted on October 1, 2020 by USFSA For Immediate Release October 1, 2020 Contact: Jordan Treakle, 202-543-5675, jordan Ahna Kruzic, 510-927-5379, ahna U.S. Farmers Call Out U.S. Ambassador for Pushing Agribusiness Agenda and Attacking Agroecology at the United Nations A national alliance of farmers,…
Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020 Perilous Bounty is a journey well worth taking By Alan Guebert Some books are worth more in your hand and on your shelf than they are as electrons in your e-reader. These books, and their authors, are valued friends and you return to…
RELEASE: The Strengthening Local Processing Act Addresses Critical Livestock and Poultry Supply Chain Issues September 29, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kelly Nuckolls, Policy Specialist National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition knuckolls RELEASE: The Strengthening Local Processing Act Addresses Critical Livestock and Poultry Supply Chain Issues The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) Applauds Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-ME)…
Beijing asks frozen food importers to shun countries with severe coronavirus By Reuters Staff September 27, 2020 A man takes frozen food from a freezer in a supermarket following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beijing, China, August 13, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s capital called on importers on Monday to…
Cattle Price Conspiracy Suit Dismissed Judge Dismisses Antitrust Lawsuit Alleging Conspiracy to Affect Cattle Prices 9/29/2020 | 12:06 PM CDT By DTN Staff Reporter A federal judge found plaintiffs in a cattle price conspiracy case didn’t provide sufficient details to prove the case. (DTN file photo) OMAHA (DTN) — A federal judge in Minnesota on…
Dear Friends I am writing to encourage you to check out my new book Liberty from All Masters, which St. Martin’s Press is publishing first thing tomorrow. In Liberty, I offer a truly hopeful vision of the future. Yes, I do issue a stark new warning, as I did in my previous books Cornered and End of the Line. But at…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | September 28, 2020 Danielle Endvick, WFU Communications, dendvick@wisconsinfarmersunion.com Melanie Bartholf, UFCW Communications, mbartholf@ufcw1473.org Farmer-Labor alliance calls for food system that works for Main Street, Not Wall Street Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1473 and Wisconsin Farmers Union (WFU) jointly called on federal, state, and local governments to…