Farmers First: Brooke Rollins’ pledge to put small family farms at the heart of US agriculture
USDA launches “Make Agriculture Great Again” agenda with bold policies to protect, finance, and sustain small and mid-sized farms for future generations.
 
			USDA launches “Make Agriculture Great Again” agenda with bold policies to protect, finance, and sustain small and mid-sized farms for future generations.
 
			Rebranded sewage sludge — loaded with PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial wastes — has been spread on millions of acres, poisoning soil, food, and groundwater while regulators look away.
 
			A new Farm Action handbook lays out how state-level advocates can curb corporate power, protect farmers, and rebuild resilient local food economies.
 
			Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta dominate global seed sales through acquisitions and cross-licensing — shrinking seed diversity and farmer autonomy.
 
			A record 60% of U.S. colonies collapsed in the past year as the deadly Varroa mite grows resistant to pesticides, threatening crops and livelihoods across the country.
 
			An Iowa family is resisting the county’s attempt to change their land classification — and risk losing farmland they’ve held for years.
 
			A Door to Freedom Coalition white paper outlines five urgent reforms for USDA, HHS, and EPA — from stopping mandatory electronic ear tags to closing pesticide loopholes — to support rural prosperity and protect public health. Revoking and Clarifying Rules to Help Small Farms and Ranches and Improve Rural Prosperity Door to Freedom Coalition …
 
			Toxic biosolids are being sold as fertilizer, despite lurking chemical dangers that regulators have ignored.
 
			Even as Europe faced growing farm protests, Brussels pushed a new “strategic dialogue” to force farms into green production that many say will cost small producers.
 
			This rancher was able to connect with a local school and provide meat for school lunches all year round. But he was only able to make this work because he had access to a small, local USDA-inspected meat processing facility nearby that was willing to work with him to get meat processed in a timely…