June 19, 2017 Trump team works to restore agricultural sectors, revitalize rural America “While much of the country has recovered from the recent recession, large areas of rural America have not fared as well. Nationally, 85 percent…
May 1, 2017 New Mexico AG takes on ‘unfair’ cattle industry practices which harm family ranches Attorney General Balderas recently became aware of the possibility of such harm from federal regulations and four mega meatpacking corporations that collectively process approximately…
April 5, 2017 Is NCBA spending Beef Checkoff Program money to hurt independent ranchers? National Cattlemen’s Beef Association appears to have supported USDA’s recent ruling to allow possible foot-and-mouth disease-infected South American beef to be brought into our…
March 22, 2017 Rotten meat scandal prompts temporary ban on Brazilian beef imports According to Brazilian police reports, three factories belonging to BRF (the world’s top poultry producer) and JBS (the world’s top beef exporter), have been…
March 20, 2017 Ranchers facing existential threat in wake of catastrophic wildfires Ranching families across this countryside are now facing an existential threat to a way of life that has sustained them since homesteading days: years…
March 17, 2017 Michigan landowners testify about Forest Service harassment, seizure of property Hinkson testified he was approached, unannounced, by USFS and Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials about the location of his camp. Casperson’s constituent was…
February 10, 2017 Mexican gray wolf attacks on rise in Arizona, along with costs, complications “All that was left was a leg and a few bone shards. I just got lucky to find it,” he said, noting that he…
January 18, 2017 Letter: Trump Ag Secretary critical to future of America’s small farmers Meanwhile, we know that 80% of the Farm Bill goes to SNAP and only 15% is actually paid to farmers in the form of…
October 3, 2016 Feds raid Wyoming farmers’ market, order legal food destroyed Feds raid farmers’ market, order food destroyed Federal agents have raided a farmers’ market in Gillette, Wyoming, ordering one seller to destroy his homemade…
