Farmers' Advance

01/08/2025

Senator slams Tyson foods in its efforts to silence poultry farmers

Tyson Foods cut contracts with poultry farmers. Lawmaker criticizes company for silencing their legal fight.

01/08/2025

Who controls the vast majority of GMO seed patents? Only two companies

With their grip on the industry’s intellectual property, Bayer and Corteva also control the majority of the market for corn and soybeans.

12/31/2024

Mt. Hope Auction in Holmes County has agreed to operate under a consent decree to settle federal allegations it kept animals in inhumane conditions.

12/31/2024

U.S. corn is the cheapest in the world, according to the Daily Dairy Report, and has caused foreign buyers to stock up ahead of any increases in tariffs.

12/13/2024

Goat committee receives $15,000 for new pens.

12/13/2024

A group of students from the Ottawa Area ISD’s Careerline Tech Center competed in the Michigan Future Farmers of America Broiler Contest in Fowlerville.

12/12/2024

A close look at the complicated relationship between Detroit’s Black communities and urban agriculture.

12/12/2024

Lightsource bp solar farm west of South Bend is fully energized and has signed an agreement to power Google data center.

12/12/2024

Christmas tree farms in central Ohio reported dead seedlings and off-color trees will be the norm for this year's holiday season.

12/11/2024

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Department of Labor has found children working for a sanitation contractor at a Sioux City packer.

12/04/2024

The Central Ohio Beekeeping Association (COBA) is accepting applications for its youth and veteran beekeeping scholarship.

11/27/2024

Federal officials are suing four Southern Indiana farmers, accusing them of violating provisions of the Clean Water Act.

11/27/2024

Jeff Frank: From 2017 to 2022, nearly 150,000 family scale farms went out of business in the US, which leads to failure on Main Street America.

11/26/2024

The conference offers programming for experienced organic growers, growers transitioning to or considering organic, and consultants or educators.

11/26/2024

They say that crooks got cash out of their accounts at ATMs. And they are angry at the credit union's response.

11/26/2024

After his 2016 election, Donald Trump chose Wall Street raider Carl Icahn as a "regulatory reform" adviser. He soon quit under a cloud of controversy.

11/26/2024

In a statement issued before Monday’s hearing, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo said it was “nothing new for big companies to challenge the authority of the NLRB to enforce workers’ rights so as not to be held accountable for their violations” of labor law.

Attorneys for Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX have argued in a federal appeals court that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional.

11/20/2024

Visa programs for temporary agricultural workers have expanded. But the truth is undocumented migrants still do much of the picking in Michigan.