Four ways Trump could impact the agriculture sector during …
Nov 6, 2024 · Trump’s push for ‘mass deportation’ could harm farm labor. During his campaign, Trump promised to deport upwards of 20 million undocumented people, many of them agricultural workers who perform the dangerous jobs most Americans don’t want.
As ag consolidation grows, Harris and Trump pitch different …
Oct 29, 2024 · In 2020, under Trump, the USDA further weakened the act by withdrawing Obama-era rules that would have made it easier for livestock farmers to prove that large companies like JBS Foods or Tyson Foods treated them unfairly.. The Trump campaign did not answer direct questions about consolidations. Instead, a spokesperson criticized the Biden administration for the high cost of fertilizer, fuel ...
GRAPHIC: Tyson Foods under investigation for employing minors …
Oct 28, 2024 · Tyson Foods is being investigated by the Department of Labor for employing minors at two of its Arkansas poultry processing plants. This investigation comes at the height of child labor law violations in the past 10 years, according to DOL data. The number of child labor law violations has increased 35% in the last decade. […]
Is John Deere’s day of reckoning soon at hand?
Nov 12, 2024 · The walls are closing in on John Deere and Company regarding its unwillingness to completely lift repair restrictions that prevent farmers from deciding who fixes their tractors when they break down. Deere’s scam has been going on for a long, long, long time. In a nutshell: Deere embeds authorization codes in its tractor software that […]
Frustrated with poultry pollution, east Oklahoma candidate takes …
Nov 1, 2024 · Editor’s note: Rep. David Hardin was reelected on Nov. 5 with 77% of the district’s vote.. Driving down a two-lane country road in east Oklahoma, Anne Fite immediately recognized the large object about a mile away on the horizon.
US dockworker strike: Three charts to understand the impact on ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Editor’s note: The International Longshoremen’s Association announced Thursday it was suspending its strike immediately.The union and U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, “reached a tentative agreement on wages,” the Associated Press reported. Striking dockworkers shut down seaports along the East and Gulf Coasts on Oct. 1, impacting ports that handle ...
PFAS pollution a growing problem for U.S. farmers
Sep 18, 2024 · Texas state courts have become ground zero in a complaint to determine whether farmers can be held liable for PFAS contamination discovered on their crop land. The Environmental Working Group reports the number of known “forever chemical” sites across the United States are increasing at an alarming rate. PFAS have been linked to kidney and testicular cancer as well as damage to the liver ...
What you need to know about Tyson’s former contract growers
May 8, 2024 · Investigate Midwest spent months investigating how the company’s decision to close plants across the country affected contract growers.
Bird flu is racing through farms, but Northwest states are rarely ...
Dec 3, 2024 · ‘Worker health and safety is public health’ Liebman thinks the public health response to avian flu should be informed by what people learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which ravaged agricultural and meat packing plants where workers were not being tested for the highly transmissible virus.. Advocates for workers then, and …
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