Thursday, April 24, 2025

Tag: organic farming

USDA invests $121 million to solve challenges facing specialty crop and...

The investment is part of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) $82.3 million in grant funding through the Agricultural Marketing Service.

USDA awards $9.7 million for 13 grant projects through Organic Market...

These projects will support the development of new and existing organic markets benefiting more than 119 million producers, buyers, and consumers.

The GOP’s Stalinesque Plan 2025 to shape the future of US...

The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation wants to rid the USDA of sustainability, climate change mitigation, and racial equity.

Community-based farms rise to the occasion as big food supply chains...

Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities.

Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards

For agrarian justice, family-scale organic farms deserve our support.

Organic farms are under attack from agribusiness, weakened standards

For agrarian justice, family-scale organic farms deserve our support.

USDA to reimburse farmers in order to expand organic farming

The USDA hopes by making these changes we will see an increase in participation in the National Organic Program.

Organic farming in the U.S. is now bigger than ever

The number of certified organic acres in the country rose by more than 10 percent over the past two years.

VIDEO: Organic Farming Flourishes in Cuba, but Can It Survive Entry...

While Cuba was forced to build a largely organic farming system out of necessity when the Soviet Union collapsed, what will happen now that the country will enter the U.S. agribusiness?

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Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner to remove synthetic food dyes from US food supply

The agency will work with the food industry to revoke authorization for two of the dyes in the coming months and eliminate the remaining six come the end of the year.

Trump administration resumes student loan collections, threatening millions with garnished wages and economic hardship

Restarting federal loan garnishments and ending relief programs, the Trump administration advances a sweeping overhaul that critics say punishes struggling borrowers and deepens a national crisis.

The ever-expanding war machine

Dismantling the government while pumping up the Pentagon.

If fear is the goal, then solidarity is the antidote

So let this be our mantra: It outlaws me, and I outlaw it.

The 89%: Exposing the climate majority and the media silence that keeps them unheard

Despite overwhelming global support for bold climate action, most governments are falling short—and newsrooms may be helping them do it.