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CAFOs: ‘Above the Law’ like Steven Seagal? 4
Posted 1 month ago What do CAFOs--that's concentrated-animal feedlot operations to you, punk--have to do with action-movie artiste Steven Seagal? That's for Tom Laskawy to know, and you to find out.
Farm Crisis 2009

Stand up for rural America while you still can 4
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
For the past six months, dairy farmers across the country have suffered a historic drop in milk prices while operating costs remain high. This is impacting mainly conventional and small to mid-size family dairy farmers -- the worst crisis most dairy farmers have faced in their entire careers. Without immediate action from Congress and the Obama administration, this current crisis could be the launching point for the final liquidation of the independent family farmer.
Running dry

Time to save our nation’s dairy farmers 51
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Suicides, farm sales, milk dumping--that all might sound like scenes from the Great Depression. But right now, U.S. dairy farmers are in a severe crisis.
Drinking the Kool-Aid of Corporate America

Why are milk prices plummeting? 10
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Dairy farmers are in deep trouble. Milk prices have fallen by half since last year, dropping to a 30-year low. Consumption has fallen in light of the slowing world economy and now there is a huge milk surplus, or so the “experts” tell us. But milk prices, like the rest of the world economy, crashed because of a globalized, unregulated free market system, not because of surplus product.