When the bitter cold began spreading over rural America last month, the parlor guessing game around many a wood stove was guessing who President-elect Donald J. Trump would name as secretary of agriculture. But the
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Food for Thought: Q & A with Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is the Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural and Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Farmers Legal Action
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Food and Ag Leaders to Launch National Food Policy Scorecard
The Environmental Working Group announced on Thursday that a group of food and agriculture policy leaders are forming a new nonprofit that “for the first time will hold lawmakers in Congress accountable” for important votes
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Health Advocates: Science on Antibiotic Resistance Is Clear
Citing an increased incidence of foodborne illness outbreaks caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, public health advocates are again ratcheting up pressure on Congress to limit routine, subtherapeutic antibiotic use in agriculture.
At back to back briefings
Letter From The Editor: Ag-Gag
Ignite a fire at a mountain-top restaurant, blow up a commercial radio tower, steal or turn livestock loose–even those mean little minks–and I am all for hunting down the perpetrators, arresting, charging and convicting them
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Senate Potato Bloc Finds Way Around USDA
The question of how many spuds will be served in school lunches has been thrown to the U.S. House of Representatives by potato state Senators Mark Udall, D-CO, and Susan Collins, R-ME.
Udall and Collins
A Rose by Any Other Name: The Food 'Dialogues'
“O, be some other name! What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
– Romeo and Juliet
On Sept. 22 the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers
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