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Uprooted, Episode 32: More on Supply Management

Josh talks with Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau from Action Aid USA about the two new videos they put out on supply management and factory farming in Iowa. You can see the videos here: https://www.actionaidusa.org/work/agribusiness-family-farmers/

USDA to hog slaughterhouses: Choose your own (faster) production speed

In January, the Food Safety Inspection Service proposed a rule to allow plant management to determine production line speed and configuration in swine slaughterhouses. IATP wrote a letter advising FSIS not to finalize the rule, particularly if enforcement failures and reporting shortcomings continued.

Status quo Farm Bill falters on economic, climate challenges

MINNEAPOLIS—The 2018 Farm Bill passed by Congress on Wednesday is largely status quo from the 2014 version and will continue to drive overproduction and low farm income while ignoring the stark realities of climate change, commented the

IATP Comment to USDA

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)appreciates this opportunity to comment on the proposed rule. Some of the provisions in the proposed rule should not be controversial.

NFFC Dairy Crisis Letter

More than fifty family farmer, labor and consumer organizations urged federal agriculture policymakers to take immediate steps to help US dairy farmers, who have struggled for years with milk prices that are well below their costs of production. 

Uprooted Episode 30: Dissecting the House Farm Bill draft

Last week House of Representatives Agriculture Committee chairman, Rep. Mike Conway, released his first draft of the 2018 Farm Bill. The bill did not have the support of the ranking member on the committee, Rep. Colin Peterson.

The House's draft 2018 Farm Bill fails farmers and everyone else

On Thursday, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) introduced a draft Farm Bill that runs counter to what farmers and eaters across the country need.

Rural Energy for America Program Letter

The following was taken from an April 3, 2018, letter from 75 organizations expressing support for the Rural Energy for America Program addressed to the chairmen and the ranking members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Dear Chairman Roberts, Ranking Member Stabenow, Chairman Conaway, Ranking Member Peterson:

EQIP Farm Bill Letter

The following is taken from an April 11, 2018 letter from the Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees Dear Chairmen and Ranking Members,

Managing low and volatile ag price farmer anxiety? The CFTC goes to the Heartland

Dr. Steve Suppan shares his thoughts and observations from a meeting hosted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on agricultural derivatives contracts.

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