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....
by Braeden Coon | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
There’s another railroad work stoppage brewing. This time it’s Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City. As mentioned in our Quick Hits section last week, the lockout of union workers by the two companies began on Thursday, August 22. Going off the...
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