Farm Issues
Farm Bill: Healthy Food, not Corporate Welfare!
Unless you are a diehard policy wonk, it's tough to get excited about the Farm Bill. But consumers have a bigger stake in this mammoth piece of federal legislation than we may realize. Big Ag's lobbyists fight hard to protect corporate interests, almost always at the expense of consumers. The OCA is here to help you fight for for healthy food and against corporate welfare!
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President Trump’s trade tactics are causing pain in farm country, but that’s not knocking the president off his favored pedestal. “Despite all the high anxiety in farm country over the Trump trade tariffs, the president's polling improves in key farm states,” according to Pro Farmer’s policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer.
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On July 9, supervisors in Todd Township, Huntingdon County, voted 2-1 to adopt a Community Bill of Rights ordinance banning industrial farming. The rights-based law prohibits farming operations when the animals are not owned locally and when most of the farm’s revenues do not stay within the Township.
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Founded and produced by Kevin Jones, founder of SOCAP, author/producer, Marc Barasch, and regenerative practitioner Dr. Holly Dublin, REGEN 18 was billed as a conference where ‘hundreds of world-changers in philanthropy, business, government and citizen activism will convene to foster the emergence of a new regenerative society’ with the intention to ‘help bring about a rapid shift from a degenerative economy to one that supports the mutual thriving of people and planet.’
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In an effort to address centuries of systemic racism, a new online tool seeks to connect Black, brown, and Indigenous farmers with land and resources.
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Provisions inside the delayed House farm bill would roll back restrictions on the wealthy obtaining federal farm subsidies, as well as allow extended family members to receive lucrative payments.
Read moreI am not a poultry owner and I am not interested in getting into the poultry industry. However, I like to eat chicken and I also like sharing entrepreneurial agricultural opportunities with people. Also, with all the debate out there about various ways to raise the chickens we eat, I found Haslett-Marroquin’s proven, researched ideas very positive because they can be implemented on a small number of acres in a pleasing, environmental fashion – all while being profitable too! If you’re passionate about poultry, his ideas are worth looking into.
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Meet Murray Provine. He used to be a steak-and-potatoes type of guy living a no-exercise, traveling-executive lifestyle.
All that changed after Provine was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Luckily, radiation destroyed Provine’s tumor. He got a second chance.
That’s when Provine decided it was time for him to eat right and take control of his own health. He knew his body was full of toxins. It needed to heal itself. One way to do that, he decided, was to start growing his own food.
Under the tutelage of rancher and consultant Allen Williams, Provine converted his 110-acre
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Today, 99 percent of American farms are still “family farms” owned by families, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). But increasingly, many of them are not actually family-farmed.
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Filipino melon grower Denis Miguel was intrigued to hear of a young Indian farmer who in 2011 had broken the world record for growing rice by using an unconventional method of cultivation that needed only half as much water and one-tenth as many seeds but resulted in spectacular yield increases.
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“I think when the traditional people disappear, the traditional values will disappear.”
So says Wendell Berry in a recent film that portrays the changing landscape and shifting values of rural America and describes the lives of farmers who have been deeply affected by the industrial agricultural era.
“Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky” features observations by this prominent writer, farmer and activist on how the agrarian way of life has been lost.
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