Make the Corn Belt a Carbon Belt
The fact is, the billions spent on the farm sector today are neither protecting the future of U.S. agriculture nor preserving the traditional family farm.
View ArticleHow Vilsack Should Use His Second Chance
The problems he struggled with during his first stint as agriculture secretary, from corporate concentration to racism, have not gone away.
View ArticleWhy Kaepernick’s Flavor Is Dairy-Free
In the past 150 years or so we have made some progress in the field of basic human rights. That is barely the case for animal rights.
View ArticleHow Earth Day Is Being Co-Opted
We must resist the corporate takeover of the UN’s food, biodiversity, and climate agenda.
View ArticleSay No to Carbon Pricing
We cannot allow the corporate giants that prop up unsustainable farming systems to profit from false climate solutions.
View ArticleGrowing New Possibilities for Low-Income Seniors
A recent project in Santa Clara, California, is providing affordable housing and regenerative farmland to improve the lives of veterans and aging populations.
View ArticleMiddle America: A Family Farm’s Demise, a Democracy’s Decline
Just before the holidays, a Wisconsin state news outlet called Up North News carried a sad story: The family dairy farm where Robert M. La Follette, the great progressive politician and founder of this...
View ArticleOur Pending Farmland Crisis
Aging farmers, like us, must make decisions about what to do with their farms, as their children move to urban areas and real estate developers are eager to buy their land for new subdivisions.
View ArticleA Way of Life Being Lost
Wendell Berry and his daughter, Mary, fight for the survival of the family farm.
View ArticleWorlds Together
Ruth Conniff’s Milked explores the bonds between Midwest dairy farmers and their Mexican workers.
View ArticleCarbon Markets Aren’t What They Appear
We need to distinguish good, real solutions to the climate crisis from those that would continue to wreak havoc on the environment.
View ArticleLetter from a Farmer: Toxic Pesticide Drift Hurts All of Us
Eight years ago, I transitioned our farm to organic. Why, then, do pesticides still bother me? Because some drift through the air for miles, polluting not only my farm and crops but important habitats.
View ArticleThe Problem with Processed Wheat
Government food agencies have often prioritized the interests of corporate food giants over our health. This needs to stop.
View ArticleBig Agriculture Doesn’t Want a Fair Farm Bill
They've turned the food system into a cash cow for the powerful few by undermining small farmers and encouraging operators to “get big or get out.”
View ArticleFarmers Need Better Policy, Not To Export More
Increasing exports will not keep farmers in business. Legislators can help farmers by inserting policies that would help them into the Farm Bill, writes Anthony Pahnke.
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