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Over the last 175 years, Alexander’s descendants have fulfilled a pledge to keep the land in the family. It hasn’t been easy. In 1968, the Texas Department of Transportation used eminent domain to seize part of their farmland and built U.S. 183 across the southeastern edge of their property. In 2015, the family cemetery was […]
Nearly 80% of the western region of the US is experiencing extreme drought conditions — and has been for nearly a year, according to the America Farm Bureau Federation. But the most recent week-long heatwave, impacting nearly 80 million people across the country, has brought things to a boiling point for farmers and ranchers. Temperatures […]
ZHURIVKA, Ukraine — Oleksandr Chubuk’s warehouse should be empty, awaiting the new harvest, with his supply of winter wheat already shipped abroad. Instead, his storage bins in central Ukraine are piled high with grain he cannot ship out because of the war with Russia. The green spikes of wheat are already ripening. Soon, the horizon […]
July 8, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EDT Volodymyr Onishchuk looks over the rented field where he plants wheat and barley, in Bashtanka, Ukraine, on June 24. (Serhiy Morgunov for The Washington Post)Comment on this story Comment BASHTANKA, Ukraine — The morning Russian tanks and troops stormed across Ukraine’s borders, Volodymyr Onishchuk’s grain got stuck. He […]
U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Black farm workers that his office would combat the racist wage and hiring practices by white farm owners during his first visit to the Mississippi Delta Thursday. The Department of Labor head’s pledge to local workers comes after a Mississippi Today investigation uncovered a pattern of farm owners skirting […]
Polo, Illinois — Before the 2016 presidential election, Illinois farmer Brian Duncan looked to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the United States and Asian countries, to boost demand for his crops, and in particular, prices for the thousands of hogs he raises annually. “Pork is very much in demand in Asian countries, the […]
President Joe Biden’s proposed Indo Pacific Economic Framework with key Asian nations signals a new approach for U.S. trade policy in the region. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, U.S. farmers are optimistic the Framework will provide new markets for their goods. Camera: Kane Farabaugh Producer: Kane Farabaugh Source link
By Fred Mariscal, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention After a winter that stayed too long, a cooler than average spring, and as summer moves in with the promise of endless sunshine, so do the annual summer farmers markets that emerge across the county each year. For many residents, buying fresh local food at one of […]
As I drove north through Matabeleland in southern Zimbabwe, bumping in and out of potholes, warm air wafted into the car. Out of the windows I could see half-empty villages, the parched sepia bush. There were few other vehicles. Amid the calm, it was hard to imagine the turmoil this region has witnessed. In the […]
(Bloomberg) — A group of senators is demanding an accounting from the Agriculture Department on how much progress it’s made in addressing historic discrimination against Black farmers. Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey and Raphael Warnock of Georgia along with independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont said an agency within the […]