July 30, 2019 USDA Bailout for Impact of Trump’s Tariffs Goes to Biggest, Richest Landowners Previously at EWG with Chris Campbell. Farm bailout payments designed to offset the impacts of President’s Trump’s trade war have overwhelmingly flowed to the…
July 11, 2019 Trump’s Farm Bailout Program Continues USDA’s Racist Legacy Previously at EWG. President Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for American soybean farmers, effectively cutting off access to China, their largest market. The Department…
April 17, 2018 Slime Me Once Richard Berman is slime, but you probably already knew that. Berman runs the Center for Consumer Freedom, a notorious front group for agribusiness and…
January 8, 2018 Trump Embraces the Ag-Right President Trump is set to address the annual American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville, Tenn., this afternoon. On the surface it may seem…
September 14, 2017 Trump’s Farm Guy Spreads Food Stamp Fraud Manure Today the Senate Agriculture Committee is holding a hearing on fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — better known as food stamps….
February 11, 2016 Fooling Ourselves With Polls The situation in Flint, Michigan has rightly has put a spotlight on the deplorable state of drinking water in America. Water pollution in the…
February 8, 2016 Cruz Storms “King” Corn’s Castle Because of the outsized role they play in American politics, there will always be debate over the farm lobby’s power. The first in the…
January 11, 2016 The Farm Bureau Four Food and farm reformers have rightly been focusing on the presidential primary season, urging candidates to talk about agriculture and engage in “good food”…
December 17, 2015 Monsanto’s Climate Cowardice The increasing vagaries of climate change are already having profound impacts on agriculture and how we grow our food. The short of it is…
November 16, 2015 Does the chicken industry pluck farmers? Previously at Grist with Nate Johnson. Since the end of World War II, poultry companies have been fine-tuning a system that gets farmers to…
