As ag consolidation grows, Harris and Trump pitch different …
Oct 29, 2024 · In 2020, under Trump, the USDA further weakened the act by withdrawing Obama-era rules that would have made it easier for livestock farmers to prove that large companies like JBS Foods or Tyson Foods treated them unfairly.. The Trump campaign did not answer direct questions about consolidations. Instead, a spokesperson criticized the Biden administration for the high cost of fertilizer, fuel ...
Is John Deere’s day of reckoning soon at hand?
Nov 12, 2024 · The walls are closing in on John Deere and Company regarding its unwillingness to completely lift repair restrictions that prevent farmers from deciding who fixes their tractors when they break down. Deere’s scam has been going on for a long, long, long time. In a nutshell: Deere embeds authorization codes in its tractor software that […]
Bird flu is racing through farms, but Northwest states are rarely ...
Dec 3, 2024 · ‘Worker health and safety is public health’ Liebman thinks the public health response to avian flu should be informed by what people learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which ravaged agricultural and meat packing plants where workers were not being tested for the highly transmissible virus.. Advocates for workers then, and …
GRAPHIC: Here's why mass deportation could affect the nation's …
Nov 20, 2024 · President-elect Donald Trump has promised to begin his second term with the largest mass deportation in history, making the jobs held by undocumented workers available to U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants make up only 5% of the total labor force, according to the most recent federal data from the U.S. Census Bureau and analysis from the […]
Farm programs, USDA would shrink under Project 2025 goals for ag
Jul 19, 2024 · Nearly everything in Project 2025's agricultural chapter runs counter to the $1.5 trillion farm bill proposal the GOP-led House Agriculture Committee passed out of committee in May.
Risky Revival: How Michigan’s Palisades nuclear plant could impact ...
Dec 10, 2024 · COVERT, Michigan — The Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, long synonymous with safety lapses and regulatory oversight, is poised for an unprecedented comeback under Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to reopen the shuttered plant by 2025 — the first attempt of its kind in U.S. history. However, in this robust agricultural region, there are fears about […]
As solar expands in the Delta, can agrivoltaic projects grow with …
Nov 5, 2024 · She said, in Ohio, tensions between solar developers and rural communities have put agrivoltaics in the spotlight as a potential solution. Hall explained that the rapid growth of solar installations led to unforeseen land use conflicts in the upper Mississippi River basin, where rural communities are larger.
GRAPHIC: Another Trump trade war with China would hurt farmers …
Dec 11, 2024 · Trump’s proposed 60% tariff on goods imported from China would have a “damaging effect with permanent consequences” on U.S. soybean growers and lead to increased deforestation in South America, according to an October 2024 study commissioned by the American Soybean Association and the National Corn Growers Association.. Soy and corn are the top two export commodities from the U.S ...
A federal watchdog told the EPA to determine whether Seresto pet ...
Aug 19, 2024 · A federal watchdog this month told the Environmental Protection Agency that its regulatory oversight of Seresto flea-and-tick collars, which have been linked to more than 2,000 pet deaths, was not “adequate.” Federal scrutiny of the Seresto collars started in 2021, after Investigate Midwest and USA TODAY revealed the collar was linked to tens of thousands […]
Protection of wetlands could come down to farmers, says a new …
Dec 11, 2024 · This story was originally published by Grist. This coverage is made possible through a partnership with Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Tucked about a mile offshore from Lake Michigan, in northern Michigan’s Charlevoix County, sits Norwood Centennial Farms. Besides some 300 cows that live there, …