Denver, Colo. – Yesterday, the Democratic leadership of the Colorado General Assembly’s House Agriculture, Livestock & Natural Resources Committee, Chair Jeni James Arndt and Vice-chair Diane Mitsch Bush, led the defeat of a measure that would have informed Colorado consumers of the origins of beef they purchase for themselves and their families. In a 7…
April 3, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCM Moves Forward in Freedom of Information Case despite USDA’s Attempt to Conceal NCBA’s Abuses of Beef Checkoff Funds LINCOLN, NE – March 31, 2017 was the USDA’s court-ordered deadline to choose transparency or secrecy in a lawsuit over records from an audit initiated in 2011 of the federal…
March 28, 2017 Josh Payne Let’s talk farming and faith. I drive John Deere tractors. I grow 200 bushel per acre corn. I use GPS and advanced biological and chemical technologies to feed the world. I am a Christian farmer. Be honest. How many of you heard this as the subtext: I grow GMO corn…
Press Release Contact Tyler Dupy Telephone 785-238-1483 Cell 785-209-2584 Email cowsrus@kansascattlemen.com Website www.kansascattlemen.com March 28, 2017 Members of the Kansas Cattlemen’s Association (KCA) and others from the agriculture community came together in Corning, Kansas during a regional meeting on March 23, 2017. Tyler Dupy, KCA Executive Director, provided a presentation clarifying differences between KCA and…
March 28, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Angela Huffman, 614-390-7552 ahuffman@competitivemarkets.com WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal lawmakers reintroduced legislation today to bring much needed transparency and accountability to the federal government’s commodity checkoff programs. The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act, S. 741, was introduced by Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Cory Booker (D-NJ),…
By Carey Gillam / Huffington Post March 28, 2017 The World Health Organization said that glyphosate probably causes cancer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and the key ingredient in Monsanto Co.’s branded Roundup herbicides. The…
Dear Mike, Since last November’s election, one of the sharpest debates in American politics has been whether to fight foremost for social justice or for economic justice. But as Brian S. Feldman of our Open Markets team writes in the new Washington Monthly, sometimes smart policies can simultaneously drive progress on both fronts. In this…
Thursday, March 23, 2017 By David Kruse, president of CommStock Investments, Inc. A Bloomberg story on JBS said that since 2005 the Brazilian meatpacking company “bought more than a dozen companies for $14 billion in cash, stock, and debt to become the biggest meat company in the world.” Long time subscribers know that I have…
March 24 Two of the world’s largest meat companies, Brazilian meatpackers JBS and BRF, have been exposed for exporting rotten beef and trying to cover it up with cancer-causing acid products. Bloomberg reports that “Brazilian prosecutors allege some sausages and cold cuts contained animal parts such as pig heads, that some meat products were adulterated…
by PETER PRENGAMAN | Associated Press | March 20, 2017 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A scandal over alleged bribery in Brazil’s meat-packing industry to allow the sale of expired meat deepened Monday as the European Union, China and Chile decided to halt some meat imports from Latin America’s largest nation. The developments represent a…