Items Tagged with 'rural communities'

A leader in animal protein production announced Monday a donation of nearly $5 million aimed to help food banks struggling with increased food prices.

In response to growing concerns about COVID-19, more than 30 state and national agricultural organizations representing farm, commodity and agribusiness communities joined together to promote vaccination among farmers and other rural Americans.

Emily Rooney, president of the Agricultural Council of California, spoke with Agri-Pulse about an unexpected coalition that helped bring about the 2019 California safe drinking water law and why the issue is important to agriculture.

In this opinion piece, Lisa Safarian, president of Crop Science North America at Bayer, discusses the importance rural broadband has on the agriculture industry and why it needs more attention from Congress.

In this opinion piece, Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses why we need to make the Farming to Support States Act happen and make it accessible to all, so that it may provide an extra measure of support for our food supply, and begin true economic recovery for communities still reeling for more than a decade.

Matt McKenna explains if USDA were able to issue government-backed debentures to RBICs, it would facilitate the flow of private capital to rural businesses serving communities in all 50 states, thereby generating employment opportunities and stimulating innovation and other critical economic development.

Decades of free and open trade have caused considerable harm to America’s family farmers and ranchers and rural communities. The trade deficit has ballooned to record levels, and U.S. manufacturers are struggling to compete with cheaper imports, forcing them to shutter factories that employ thousands of rural Americans. Even though agricultural exports remain high, farmers’ incomes are on the decline.

Several years of low commodity prices are making life difficult on the farm, and small towns across the country face serious challenges to modernize their infrastructure.