Rick Clark told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that reducing synthetic inputs can improve farm profitability, but education, lending rules and crop insurance remain barriers to adoption.
Consumers paid record prices and contract farmers earned pennies while dominant egg producers amassed huge profits — then settled price-fixing allegations for a fraction of what they made.
In an AgWeb op-ed, Wendy Johnson argues the next farm bill should reward soil health, crop diversity, and farmer-owned land instead of locking producers into corn, soy, and synthetic inputs.
Joel Salatin argues that farmers who champion states’ rights and limited government should think twice before backing a federal bill that overrides state food standards.
Bipartisan vote removes controversial protections for pesticide makers, exposing deeper rifts over federal authority, health standards, and corporate liability.
From livestock phase-outs to solar land grabs, the pressures that drove Europe’s farmer protests point to a deeper restructuring of agriculture.
An opinion piece in Deseret Magazine argues that America is losing small family farms at a rapid pace as consolidation, rising costs, and subsidy structures increasingly favor large agribusiness over independent producers.
Farm Action argues that billions in government food purchases should be redirected toward independent and regional producers.
Trump’s use of the Defense Production Act to boost glyphosate production reframes a lawsuit-plagued chemical as essential to national security while Bayer faces billions in legal risk.
New draft legislation is drawing criticism for preserving corporate advantages in agriculture while weakening state-level protections and shielding pesticide makers from liability.