by Braeden Coon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Circle up. There’s big hype right now for developing circular economies for sustainable production. (Think mitigating climate change, feeding a growing population.) The folks at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a Circularity Index to measure how far...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation is shelling out some serious coin in a settlement claiming it underpaid contract growers. Context: Pilgrim’s Pride is a subsidiary of JBS. The plaintiffs, aka farmworkers, accused the corporation of an “overarching conspiracy to...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
A DOL rule is DOA (dead on arrival) in some states. Order in the court: Earlier this week, a federal judge said, “NEXT”—Judge Judy style—to the enforcement of a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that would have allowed farmworkers to unionize in 17 states. ...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Utah is taking a stand against the federal government’s management of unappropriated land within its borders. Utah officials filed a lawsuit petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s indefinite control over unappropriated land...
by Braeden Coon | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Proposed updates for livestock disaster assistance are causing a stampede of support. LIP needs TLC: The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) administers payments to livestock producers who experience livestock losses through natural disasters, predators, or disease....
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