The 1000 Farms Initiative Investigates Regenerative Agriculture Across the U.S.
The Ecdysis Foundation is launching a study that aims to investigate regenerative agriculture across the United States. The 1000 Farms Initiative is one of the largest projects to date that…
Read More...New partnerships find win-win projects between ranchers and environmentalists
“You can do all the conservation practices in the world,” said Susie Evans, a fifth-generation cattle rancher in Chaffee County, Colorado. “But if it doesn’t profit, you’re gone.”
Read More...Listen: ‘Who do you want controlling your food?’
During the pandemic, wholesale beef prices increased more than 40 percent. The conventional wisdom was that price increases simply reflected the chaos that the coronavirus had caused in the supply…
Read More...Bitterroot hay producers face myriad of challenges
Faced with changing land ownership patterns and rising costs for fertilizer, fuel and even the twine used to wrap the bales, local hay producers expect higher hay prices to last…
Read More...It’s becoming a bidding war for U.S. beef
With 2022 set to be the third consecutive year of declining beef cow inventories, and the fourth year with a smaller calf crop, beef production is expected to retreat by…
Read More...Biden’s Action Plan Draws Mixed Reviews From Cattlemen
The Biden Administration’s Action Plan to invest $1 Billion to expand competition in the U.S. meat packing industry and strengthen enforcement of antitrust regulations drew mixed reactions from cattlemen. Biden…
Read More...Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren’t Cashing In
“You’re feeding America and going broke doing it”: After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on.
Read More...Should cultured meat be labeled identically to traditional meat?
USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service is asking consumers for their thoughts. Consumers, traditional meat producers and emerging meat producers continue to spar over what to call this new technology meat. The…
Read More...Back to the early 1980s: Inflation rate hits 39-year high
The 6.8% inflation rate is the worst since June 1982. Other large contributors to inflation included housing, clothes, household furnishings, and new and used vehicles.
Read More...USDA promised to invest in regional markets. Now, it’s happening
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has said many times since taking office that the agency would invest in local and regional markets in an effort to make the food system more…
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