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Critics Say Bipartisan Carbon Market Bill Won’t Dent Climate Change
By Lindsay Campbell, originally posted June 21, 2020 at https://modernfarmer.com Will a market-based approach work for agriculture? Earlier this month, a group of US senators did what would usually seem unthinkable in today’s political climate, and reached across the aisle to propose a bill that aims to tackle climate change through agriculture. The Growing Climate Solutions Act is ...
Postings related to the June 3, 2020, Ruling on Dicamba
June 2020 – NFFC’s reflection on the situation is found here. * June 26, Middletown Times: Dicamba * June 26, Bloomberg News: Legal Focus Now Shifts to Corteva’s Enlist * June 23, Effingham Daily News: EPA Defends Decision to Allow Spraying * June 22, Ohio’s Country Journal: Dicamba Rules Change (Again) * June 19, Aberdeen News: Court Denies Motion ...
After 30 Years, the Small Business Administration Recognizes Farmers
By Lynne Curry, originally posted May 11, 2020, at https://thecounter.org/. Small-scale farmers are cautiously hopeful about this new funding source. They also worry it’s too little, too late.
SBA Allows Farmers to Apply for Economic Disaster Loans
By Lynne Curry, originally published May 11, 2020, at https://thecounter.org. Small-scale farmers are cautiously hopeful about this new funding source. They also worry it’s too little, too late. Last week the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) opened an online portal exclusively for “agricultural enterprises” (read: farmers) to apply for a Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). For decades ...
Farm Groups urge USDA to Spend Coronavirus Money, Support Dairy Farmers
This article by Rick Barrett originally appeared on April 14, 2020, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
NFFC, Allies Assert Role of Civil Society to UN Secretary General
Those Most Affected by Hunger, Malnutrition Must Shape UN Food Systems Summit Originally published March 24, 2020 at www.foodsovereignty.org. With the corporate world increasingly involved in UN decision-making, 550 CSOs, social movements and universities handover a letter to the UN Secretary General today asserting people’s role in the transformation of food systems. Corporations in the global industrial chain ...
Memo: Land Access for Beginning and Disadvantaged Farmers
This release was originally posted on March 30, 2020, at https://www.dataforprogress.org/memos/land-access-for-beginning-disadvantaged-farmers. Lead Authors: Meleiza Figueroa and Leah Penniman Contributors: Mackenzie Feldman, Jordan Treakle, Anthony Pahnke, Adam Calo, Alastair Iles, and Johnny Bowman Executive Producers: Greg Carlock and Julian Brave NoiseCat In 1910, one in seven farmers were African-American and held titles to approximately 16-19 million acres of farmland. Over ...
Consolidation and Climate Change Threaten U.S. Fisheries
On February 10, 2020, NFFC director Niaz Dorry served on a panel titled, “Surf ‘n’ Turf: can our seafood survive Big Ag and climate change?”, hosted by FERN’s (Food and Environment Reporting Network) Leah Douglas. Niaz stated, “None of the fisherman we work with are against putting limits on how much fish you catch. It’s ...
Whether You call it USMCA or NAFTA, it’s Really just a Failed Farm Policy
Missouri Rural Crisis Center farmer, Darvin Bentlage, submitted an op-ed to the Columbia Missourian on February 3, 2020, that noted, among other important points: “Fifty family farm groups sent a letter asking for reinstatement of COOL, the best promotion tool for independent cattle producers and the best education for consumers. Some of these groups include National ...
Jury Awards Grower $265 Million in Damages from Drift of Monsanto’s Dicamba
At Nation of Change on February 18, 2020, Andrea Germanos stated: “Monsanto and BASF were found liable for negligent design of the products and negligent failure to warn regarding the products. The jury also found that the two companies created a joint venture to manufacture and sell dicamba-resistant seed and low-volatility herbicides, and that they ...
Our perspectives and voices of our members in selected national and local media in the last year.