Farmers and Meatpackers Are Teaming Up
During the pandemic and recession, farmers are realizing they have more in common with immigrant meatpackers than agribusiness CEOs
We Have the Money to Fix Our Food System
Imagine supporting farmers markets, child nutrition, and local agriculture with money we spend on factory farms.
Teresa Romero Selected as First Woman President of United Farm Workers
Romero promises to delve into immigration reform when she takes over the union later this year.
She’s The Poster Child for Estate Tax Repeal, but Her Sad Family Saga Doesn’t Add Up
Noem perpetuates the “estate tax hurts farmers” argument using her life experience. The story she tells, however, does not line up with some very basic tenets of the tax code.
Kristi Noem Is Cashing Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Subsidies While Claiming the Estate Tax Hurt Her Family
The South Dakota Congresswoman sits on the Congressional conference committee hashing out the final version of the Republican tax bill. Whose interests is she serving?
The GOP is Falsely Painting Farmers as the Face of the Estate Tax Repeal
Groups that represent real small farmers with tractors actually support estate tax reform.
FILM: “Resistencia: The Fight for The Aguan Valley”
DC Premiere of a groundbreaking documentary with the filmmaker in attendance about the 2009 coup d’état in Honduras sparking a landless farmers’ movement that took control of the plantations.
A Volatile Agenda on Agriculture
The U.S.-Colombia free trade pact would reinforce a system that leaves farmers and consumers at the mercy of volatile prices and markets.
Big Bad Free Trade Accord
How come your teeth are so long, Grandma?
Making a Statement with Our Tractors
If Wisconsin’s public-sector workers lose their collective bargaining rights, then dairy farmers will lose as well.