USDA’s Farm Service Agency makes loans to family farms that are categorically exempt (“CatEx”) from the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), which permits agencies to make such exemptions.
Since 2016, the FSA has extended that
Continue Reading Federal Judge blocks break for medium-sized factory farmsEditor’s note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up sustainable and safe ways to feed the world? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here is the first response, from
Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals, discussed the high incidence of foodborne illness and the state of American agriculture on The Colbert Report last week.
“Why should I become a vegetarian? What is
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Two more popular television shows have recently disparaged agriculture, according to some who write from rural America.
Broadcasting false and disparaging information about agriculture could still land television personalities in court in 13 mostly rural
