USDA should be using its federal food procurement dollars to jump-start the local food systems that were decimated by decades of industry consolidation.
This month’s announcements from the USDA that it will support farmers producing specialty crops show the department is succumbing to our collective pressure.
Major corporations and the largest farms are gearing up to take advantage of our farm safety net programs in the next farm bill.
The government is forcing dairy farmers to fund Domino’s new marketing campaign with their checkoff dollars. But the farmers forced to fund the campaign aren’t the ones who benefit from it.
Agri Stats, a behind-the-scenes agriculture data and analysis company, is being called out for orchestrating an industry-wide price-fixing scheme.
Vilsack is shielding our food system from meaningful reform and is propping up the sector’s most powerful corporations. Farmers are tired of his broken promises.
His misleading return-on-investment studies prop up the legitimacy of the beef checkoff program and protect NCBA’s largest source of funding.
Our government is supposed to represent its citizens and look out for our best interests. Instead, it bows to the monied interests of big business lobbyists.
NCBA has rigged the checkoff contracting system to pour ranchers’ dollars into its own pockets.
Our team members are hard at work growing and raising healthy foods for their communities, and they’re excited to share updates from their farms.