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Local restaurants serve up comfort food that sticks to your ribs. Even the traffic lights seem to stay green a little longer here. This is small-town Texas at its most relaxed and welcoming. High ...
Out and about in the North-East and Highlands last week, I got a bit of what the Americans call “Big Sky Country”.
The local food programs were initially funded by 2021’s American Rescue Plan Act but were later expanded by the Biden administration. The Trump administration, though, has cut the funding that went to ...
Private companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor.
The Big Sky Champion in the indoor pen When Whitney Morrison went to sleep on Wednesday night, she did so knowing that there was work to be done in the morning.
Plus, a potentially bitter battle looms over reauthorizing the 2018 Farm Bill that expired in 2023. Despite the uneasy times, farm country has reason to expect a financial rebound this year.
It’s a tariff-avoidance tactic long used by big importers. But for DigiKey, this was a gambit in response to Trump’s 2018 tariffs. “Honestly, we didn’t know whether we’d get our bang for ...
In Southern California, Dickinson Family Farms has worked to gather produce from dozens of small farms across the region, allowing even the smallest operators without distribution capabilities to sell ...
“With the razor-thin margins on both sides, those partnerships are just really hard, if not impossible, to sustain,” she said. The co-owner of Over the Moon Farm, Pesek said her operation was ...
News; National business; USDA cuts hit small farms as Trump showers billions on big farms April 10, 2025 Updated Thu., April 10, 2025 at 5:33 p.m. Shae, left, and Anna Pesek pose with calves on ...
By: Kevin Hardy States News Service Indiana Capital Chronicle Anna Pesek saw a federal program supporting local food purchases as much more than a boost to her Iowa pork and poultry farm. The U.S ...
Knight said the nation doesn’t have to choose between big and small farms. But small farms are vanishing all around her. “This is a ticking bomb,” she said. “The clock is running out if we don’t ...