4 Companies control 85% of meat slaughter/processing in the US. Brazil’s JBS (the company that cleared the Amazon to grow cows) is probably the most corrupt, and is about to be listed on the NYSE Unless the regulators decide their corruption precludes this. Can you help? June 5, 2025 By Meryl Nass 99% of beef…
Recent Graduates Were Told They Were Coming to the U.S. for Cultural Exchange. They Ended Up Trapped in a Factory Farm. A lawsuit alleges that three Guatemalan citizens, who came to the U.S. on J-1 visas, worked dangerous jobs under false pretenses. Credit: complaint via FarmSTAND Mon May 19th, 2025 Words by Nina B. Elkadi…
NEW: Farmers are key to achieving a healthy food system, as the MAHA Commission’s recent report laid out. As a farmer-led group, we have the roadmap to get us there. We have a chance right now to transform our food and agriculture system to improve public health. https://farmaction.us/a-healthy-food-system-begins-with…/
Op-Ed by Gilles Stockton, Montana Cattlemen’s Association Director “The reason 10% of the people need food assistance is because global corporationsunderpay for our wheat and calves, leaving our rural communities in chronic poverty. None of this is fixed by denying children food.“ It is our responsibility as farmers and ranchers to protect and conserve the…
R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America Fighting for the Independent U.S. Cattle Producer By: R-CALF USA Marketing Director Jaiden Moreland Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa View and share this news release on Facebook here and X here, or view the web version here. R-CALF USA Requests Federal Investigation…
Let’s hope this verdict holds. Bayer, is one of the largest biomedical and pharmaceutical companies in the world and they won’t give up in the courts until they have taken their appeals as far as they can. Likely, some of the plaintiffs will be dead before the final settlement/verdict is ever made. When they go…
Farm groups quaking in their mud boots All eyes on MAHA report due out Thursday carey gillam May 21, 2025 The chickens – as my dear late grandmother might say – appear to be coming home to roost. Not literal chickens, of course, but rather the type who have spent decades working to avoid exactly…
Subject: Booker, Lee Introduce OFF Act to Protect Farmers, Cut Government Waste FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2025 CONTACT: Maya_Krishna-Rogers Booker, Lee Introduce OFF Act to Protect Farmers, Cut Government Waste WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Mike Lee (R-UT) ) reintroduced the bipartisan Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF)…
Dan Sullivan, dsullivan@lancasterfarming.comMay 20, 2025 Cows on grass at White Oak Pastures.Submitted Small farmers practicing on-farm slaughter hope to take a bite of the large beef processors’ market share. “My belief is that we should slaughter animals where they are,” said Mike Callicrate, a Kansas cattle producer. Callicrate and others are showing that on-farm, USDA-sanctioned…
Farm Action and the Farm Action Fund are excited to see many of our priorities highlighted in today’s MAHA Commission Report, which aligns with our efforts in the Food Not Feed Campaign movement. For over two decades, many of us have worked to end the current abusive food and agriculture system recognized in this report….