Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.
NFFC Op-Eds
A Green New Deal for Agriculture
by Raj Patel & Jim Goodman, NFFC Board President
Jacobin, April 2019
(interview with the authors: Behind the News with Doug Henwood, April 11, 2019)
The Green New Deal could change the way society eats
by Jim Goodman
The Cap Times (Madison, WI), February 25, 2019
Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I’m done.
by Jim Goodman
Washington Post, December 21, 2018
Letter to the editor: Heavy hand of high tech in the food we eat
by Jim Goodman & Siena Chrisman, Communications Advisor
Boston Globe, November 24, 2018
Monsanto-Bayer merger hurts farmers and consumers
by Jim Goodman & Tiffany Finck-Haynes, Senior Food Futures Campaigner, Friends of the Earth
Des Moines Register, September 1, 2018
Opinion: Trump’s $12 Billion PR Stunt
by Jim Goodman
Daily Yonder, August 1, 2018
National Publications
- Can this radical approach to dairies save U.S. farms?
Salon/Civil Eats, March 29, 2019 - How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms
The Guardian, March 9, 2019 - Can Democratic presidential hopefuls win rural votes?
Food and Environment Reporting Network’s Ag Insider, February 11, 2019 - Workers In The US And Brazil Are Standing United Against Jair Bolsonaro
Buzzfeed, January 3, 2019 - Farm Bill Receives Mixed Response from Rural Advocates
Daily Yonder, December 12, 2018 - Senate Ag Committee hearing planned for stalled USDA nominees
Feedstuffs, November 14, 2018 - US dairy experts cast doubts that Canada trade deal will end a deep slump
USA Today, October 3, 2018 - Murky NAFTA talks leave farmers from all 3 nations in the dark
The Hill, August 31, 2018 - EPA Should Revoke Monsanto Weed Killer Approval, Groups Tell U.S. Court
US News & World Report, August 29, 2018 - Trump’s privatization plan would destroy the Postal Service (op-ed by Katrina vanden Heuvel)
Washington Post, August 7, 2018 - Farm Bill Drafts Include Mental Health Program That Was Zeroed Out in 2014
Daily Yonder, June 20, 2018 - Ag suicide on rise; bill could save lives
Feedstuffs, May 21, 2018 - Farmers Milking For What It’s Worth (Not Much), Unsure What Comes Next
Harvest Public Media, May 17, 2018 - Volatile Dairy Market Leaves Farmers in Lurch
Daily Yonder, May 15, 2018 - If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
Mother Jones, May 16, 2018 - Farmers Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet. This Controversial Policy Could Help.
Mother Jones, May 12, 2018
Local & Regional Publications
- Wisconsin dairy farmers barely hanging on as crisis deepens with no end in sight
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, November 26, 2018 - National Family Farm Coalition: New trade deal is more of the same
Wisconsin State Farmer, October 2, 2018 - Go(v)t Milk?
WKMS Murray State (OH), August 15, 2018 - Farms seek answers to curb dairy crisis
The Saratogian (NY), August 13, 2018 - Floating the idea of a ‘community-supported fishery’
The Country Today, July 30, 2018 - Farm bill defeat produces strong reactions
The Spectator/Wellsville Daily Reporter (NY), May 20, 2018 - Farm bill defeated in House
Wisconsin State Farmer, May 18, 2018 - Supply Management or Status Quo?
Lancaster Farming (PA/NY), May 18, 2018 - Dairy industry leaders brainstorm
The Hornell Evening Tribune (NY), May 16, 2018 - Dairy crisis pinches organic farmers
Wisconsin State Farmer, May 15, 2018 - Van Hollen to introduce small farm bill
The Star-Democrat (MD), May 15, 2018 - Analysts sour on U.S. milk system
The Saratogian, May 10, 2018 - Some experts say U.S. should create milk supply management system like Canada’s
Watertown Daily Times (NY), May 10, 2018 - Farmers, groups raise concerns about dairy crisis
Greenfield Recorder (MA), May 10, 2018 - Group of experts say U.S. should create milk supply management system like Canada’s
The Journal (NY), May 9, 2018 - Depressed farm economy has dairy farmers on edge
Wisconsin State Farmer, May 8, 2018
Radio, TV, Internet
- America’s Farmers: Invisible Casualties of Predatory Trade
Trade Justice Alliance webinar, April 7, 2019 - Food Banks Are Overflowing With Milk
National Public Radio, February 17, 2019 - Resistance: The Ballot and the Bullhorn (Interview with Niaz Dorry starts 17:40)
The Laura Flanders Show, November 7, 2018 - Interview with Niaz Dorry
Food Sleuth Radio, PRX: Public Radio International, November 1, 2018 - America the Bountiful: Fisherpeople, Family Farmers, and Food
“A Public Affair,” WORT Madison, WI, July 16, 2018 - The Destruction of America’s Farms
Sputnik International, July 29, 2018 - ‘Environmental Destruction’: US Farming Policy Favors Business Over Heartland
Sputnik International, May 5, 2018 - Farming and Civil Rights with Ben Burkett
“A Public Affair,” WORT Madison, WI, April 16, 2018