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The Farmers’ Almanac isn’t going out of business after all, but it is leaving Maine for the bright lights of New York City and a new owner. Beloved by farmers and gardeners, the almanac…
For decades, the discussion around organic farming has centered on important tenets of sustainability, environmental health, animal welfare, and a vision for food that heals rather than…
The president would rather pay farmers off with taxpayer funds than let them compete in a global marketplace. Source link
Across America, a new generation of farmers is reimagining what it means to work the land. They are engineers, ecologists, and entrepreneurs—people who see farming not only as a way to…
President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion farm aid package, according to a White House official — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by…
President Trump will unveil a long-awaited $12 billion bailout package Monday for farmers hurt by high prices and trade wars with China and other nations. Source link
President Trump said the U.S. will not have representation at the Group of 20 summit in South Africa this year, citing the country's treatment of White farmers. Source link
Since 1818, loyal readers of the Farmers’ Almanac have turned to the publication for weather predictions, gardening tips, astronomy calendars, and more. But, on November 6, the Farmers’…
At the same time, Democrats are being mobilized in ways that I actually had not even seen in 2024. In Virginia specifically, there’s a group called Rural Ground Game—they’re doing…
While the first part of Cruz’s warning falls into the same hyperbolic rhetoric that the GOP has been pushing about No Kings being an antifa meetup, the second half rang surprisingly true.…
He then went on to ramble about how fair elections, fair press, and borders are the most important issues in America right now, before moving back to his political enemies. “They have…
Even a government bailout won’t undo the damage that Donald Trump’s tariffs have wreaked on America’s soybean farmers. The president reiterated Wednesday that he intended to use the…
“The other day, it was very interesting, they found $31 billion,” Trump said. “They said, ‘Sir, we’ve found 31.’ I said, ‘You mean positively, right?’ They said, ‘Yeah, $31 million more…
Sarah Taber, a farmer who ran for commissioner of agriculture in North Carolina as a Democrat last year, has a YouTube channel where she talks about these issues. In one recent dispatch,…
Teenage Willie Nelson didn’t like picking cotton when he was growing up so he played in bands at local Texas dance halls instead. This doesn’t mean that he didn’t appreciate the value of…
For farmers, every planting decision carries risks, and many of those risks are increasing with climate change. One of the most consequential is weather, which can damage crop yields and…
Crop prices are low due to big yields, and high fertilizer costs from President Trump's tariff wars are stressing out the heartland. Source link
Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what’s now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and…
Alan Dershowitz was once again denied pierogies at a farmers market. After being turned away by the vendors of the Good Pierogi stand at the West Tisbury Farmer’s Market in Martha’s…
Alan Dershowitz has fought many battles over the course of his legal career. He has fought on behalf of O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump. Now he will fight for…
Donald Trump just admitted that his administration’s massive deportation efforts are causing chaos for farmers—but he doesn’t care. In a post on Truth Social Thursday, Trump took a moment…
Something was wrong with Edemanwan Eyo Bassey’s chickens. Their movements seemed slower, more lethargic, “like they were becoming paralyzed,” she said. But as a new farmer in a remote part…
But Erin Foster West, policy director at the National Young Farmers Coalition, said that programs intended to help commodity farmers have less of an impact for smaller-scale producers.…
As I argued recently, Trump’s “white genocide” imagery draws heavily on a kind of internationalized “great replacement theory” that’s popular among white nationalists. In this…
