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3 weeks ago | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss
ARS is the division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tasked with providing the agricultural research, education and economic analysis that protects the health of the nation’s farmland, ensures the safety of the food we eat and develops solutions for diseases, disasters and other threats to the food supply.
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3 weeks ago | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Joel Bleifuss |Justin Perkins |Jennifer Berkshire |Winona LaDuke
In her new role, Kleeb automatically becomes a DNC vice-chair at Martin’s side, part of a leadership team that says it will move the party in a bolder direction. In a December 19 Barn Raiser op-ed, Kleeb explained why she was supporting Martin for chair of the DNC and running for President of the ASDC.
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1 month ago | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Anjulie Rao |Joel Bleifuss |Matt Barron
In 1973, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz infamously instructed farmers: “Get big or get out.” Fast forward 52 years, and a handful of multinational corporations control America’s agricultural economy. As the nonprofit, farmer-led organization Farm Action has observed, this is not an accident. Decades of rollbacks in antitrust law, mergers and market manipulation through price fixing and collusion has allowed corporations to control virtually every link in the food supply chain.
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1 month ago | 
portside.org | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss
Public health officials continue to maintain that the current risk to humans remains low. While there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission, there have been 70 confirmed cases nationally, the majority resulting from farmworkers exposed to the virus from dairy cattle. In January, Louisiana reported the first bird flu death in the U.S., which was linked to the D1.1 genotype.
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2 months ago | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Addie Costello |Anjulie Rao
According to the latest data from the USDA, since 2022, bird flu outbreaks have led to the loss of more than 162 million birds in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, including 20 million birds in the last 30 days. Public health officials continue to maintain that the current risk to humans remains low. While there have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission, there have been 70 confirmed cases nationally, the majority resulting from farmworkers exposed to the virus from dairy cattle.
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2 months ago | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Addie Costello |Michael Chameides
On the day of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order establishing the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by the world’s richest person, Elon Musk.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Winona LaDuke |Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Beth Howard
“Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of humankind. Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger? Know that you yourself are essential to this World.” —Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the 19th Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe These are complex times. Some of us would think of them as terrifying.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Beth Howard |Joel Bleifuss |Justin Perkins |Paco Alvarez
This is the third article in a series of stories and interviews in which we ask rural organizers, elected office holders and political strategists what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General Election. I grew up in a small rural white community on a tobacco farm in Eastern Kentucky. My dad was a strip miner, my mom was a grocery store clerk and a factory worker. I am a proud Appalachian.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Paco Alvarez |Alli O'Connell
Down ballot, many races have yet to be decided. As of Wednesday, both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees will see changes to membership in the upcoming legislative session, with two incumbent committee members, New York Rep. Marcus Molinaro (R) and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), losing re-election.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
barnraisingmedia.com | Rachael Hanel |Justin Perkins |Joel Bleifuss |Paco Alvarez
The overarching message: the only way to keep this crime from infiltrating rural areas is to vote for conservatives. Examples abound. On Monday, vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance visited Minneapolis, stopping at the site of the Third Precinct, which burned in protests after the 2020 murder of George Floyd. Conservatives often criticize Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’s running mate, for not doing more to stop the protests.
