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#AgAlerts: Trade aid is on its way; USDA changes SNAP; ADM sees benefit in trade tariffs; Cargill re-evaluates strategy

By Kaolin Sewell | July 29, 2019

In total, $7 billion will be sent out to U.S. farmers this summer. The sign up to receive payment starts on Monday July 29, 2019. The amount given to each individual farmer depends on acreage – it will range from $15 to $150.

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#AgAlerts: Cargill comments on African swine flu; JBS buys from deforested land; ERS forms a union

By Kaolin Sewell | July 12, 2019

Cargill says it could take up to ten years for China to bounce back from the impact of the African swine flu outbreak on pork supplies.

#AgAlerts:Cargill expands to Asia; Supreme Court sides with grocery stores; Valley Fever wreaks havoc on field workers

By Kaolin Sewell | July 1, 2019

Cargill Inc. opened a $48.8 million poultry plant in China. The new facility is set to produce 32,000 tons of protein products each year. The location in Chuzhou, Anhui is the company’s second operation in the country.

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#Ag Alerts: Bailout program fails farms; methane-reducing seaweed for cows; USDA avoids big meat regulation

By Kaolin Sewell | June 11, 2019

U.S. Department of Agriculture data hints a low number of farms are receiving funds from the farm bailout program. It is reported that at a single farm was handed over $2 million, an excessive amount of money when many farms still haven’t received their share.

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Ag Alerts: FDA redefines food labels; Tyson considers new facility; farmers’ incomes plunge

By Kaolin Sewell | June 3, 2019

Tyson Foods Inc. hasn’t announced an official decision on if the company will move forward with an over-billion-dollar venture in Kazakhstan. There is some speculation that if the investment goes through, Tyson would escape U.S. taxes.

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Ag Alerts: Online grocery shopping with SNAP; Tyson sues USDA; Walmart raises prices

By Kaolin Sewell | May 22, 2019

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants will soon have the ability to use SNAP benefits to purchase online groceries. The program will start in New York and expand to other states.

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Ag Alerts: Tyson turns to x-ray metal detectors; California bans controversial pesticide; ERS forms a union

By Kaolin Sewell | May 15, 2019

Tyson Foods faced almost 12 million pound of chicken strips. In effect are plans to utilize metal detectors and x-ray machines to fix future metal contamination in company products.

Agribusiness

In Missouri, lawmakers are poised to eliminate local regulation of CAFOs

By Leah Douglas / Food and Environment Reporting Network | May 10, 2019

Communities in Missouri have been fighting the expansion of large-scale livestock operations in the state for years. But a controversial pair of bills moving through the state legislature would make community oversight of those farms even harder.

Opinion

Opinion: Are you ready to eat gene-edited food? It’s arrived…

By Dave Dickey / Big Ag Watch | May 8, 2019

A Midwest restaurant is buying Calyno™ High Oleic Soybean Oil from Calyxt that fashions itself as a “consumer-centric, food- and agriculture-focused company.” It is also the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.

Opinion

Opinion: Proposed Federal pork inspection changes may be a risk to public safety

By Dave Dickey / Big Ag Watch | May 1, 2019

As early as this month, the Trump administration could allow pork plant employees rather than federal inspectors to be responsible for hazard analysis and critical control points inspection measures.

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Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

USDA photo by Preston Keres

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits.

‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits.

From City Hall to the White House, our investigation found, officials let Triumph Foods stay open as hundreds of workers got coronavirus. Four died.

Opinion

  • USDA Secretary nominee will need to change his spots to meet unprecedented challenges

    Big Ag must have breathed a huge collective sigh of relief when President-elect Joe Biden tapped Tom Vilsack to be secretary of USDA. For Big Ag Vilsack is like your grandfather's favorite slippers – comfortable, cuddley warm, and dependable.

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Rural America

  • Minnesota has figured out a way to help stressed farmers. Can it be replicated?

    This story is part of a yearlong project exploring the ways farmers and farming communities tackle mental health and is supported with a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network. When Pam Uhlenkamp separated from her husband earlier this year, she knew the person to call.  As a farm business management instructor, Uhlenkamp mentors farmers one-on-one.

From the USDA

  • USDA Exempts Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a final Alaska Roadless Rule that exempts the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 provision that prohibited road construction, road reconstruction and timber harvests.

SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.

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