by Braeden Coon | Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
You know all those fancy labels on meat… “Grass-Fed,” “Free-Range,” “Raised Using Regenerative Agriculture Practices,” “Climate-Friendly,” “Raised Without Antibiotics.” Well, now they need to be backed...
by Braeden Coon | Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Hold up, wait a minute, let me put some GM in it.” — wheat researchers, probably Wheat farmers knead this: The USDA announced the deregulation of a drought-tolerant trait in wheat from an Argentina-based company, which means there’s a possibility of...
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. ...
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