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.
GRAPHIC: Tyson Foods under investigation for employing minors …
Oct 28, 2024 · Tyson Foods is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing minors at two of its Arkansas poultry processing plants. This investigation comes at the height of child labor law violations in the past 10 years, according to DOL data. The number of child labor law violations has increased 35% in the last decade. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Second Trump administration threatens USDA conservation and …
Nov 11, 2024 · This story was originally published by Barn Raiser. In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to incentivize farmers to cease farming on environmentally sensitive land. His grandfather signed up for the program to help restore […]
Huge organic farm in Iowa thrives without chemicals
Nov 29, 2024 · By the Numbers: Organic farming in West Bend, Iowa. 1.3 million metric tons: U.S. organic grain imports in 2023 (four times the 2020 volume). 800: Population of West Bend, Iowa. 50,000 acres: Land surrounding West Bend farmed organically. $40 million: Annual revenue generated by Clear Creek Acres. 3,000 acres: Organic …
Ag policy, deportations, trade and climate change: What Midwest …
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GRAPHIC: Irrigation, water use on US farms are in decline
Dec 4, 2024 · Irrigation on U.S. farms declined between 2018 and 2023, with fewer farms using irrigation methods and less water applied overall, the latest data shows. Over that five-year period, the number of irrigated farms dropped by 8%, irrigated acres decreased by 5%, and water use fell from 83.4 million to 81 million acre-feet, according to the […]
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 …
America's largest corn company, Corteva Agriscience, pledges no …
Sep 25, 2024 · CONESVILLE, Iowa — The deductions frustrated him. “You earn money faster” in the U.S. than in Mexico, the man said in Spanish. But the deductions in every paycheck slowed his earnings, and he and his family needed every dollar. A few weeks working in Iowa corn fields, with a temporary labor visa, helped him cover […]