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,As another program of President Biden on December 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a new program called Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement, or LFPA, which ...
by nailkeg
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on Thu Apr 11, 2024 at 06:05 AM PDT
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Beef is not grown in confinement buildings as hogs and poultry are. Although “finished out” in feedlots, the mother cow is in a pasture its entire life and the calf for about half of its life is ...
by nailkeg
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:45 AM PST
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There are many steps we need to take�to a sustainable planet, and many possible paths.� One path involves�steering America’s farmers and ranchers toward�greener food production. Joe Biden is ...
by GoodNewsRoundup
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30 AM PST
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I can lead readers to critical news with meat on the bones besides Donald Trump, though I can’t make them read it. Ignore it at your peril. Let's give Nicolas Camut a hand. In a world full of media, global warming ignorance, and coverups on the...
by Pakalolo
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on Mon Jan 29, 2024 at 09:41 AM PST
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Of all the falsehoods spread by MAGA Republicans, an underrated one poses the gravest danger. The term “Big Lie” usually attaches to the nonsensical claim by Trump and his MAGA supporters that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from them by...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Dec 18, 2023 at 05:08 AM PST
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Remarks by President Biden on How Bidenomics and His Investing in America Agenda are Ensuring Rural Americans Do Not Have to Leave Their Hometowns to Find Opportunity | Northfield, MN When has a recent US President spoke the truth like this: Farmers of...
by Cocob
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 03:55 PM PST
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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 08:59 PM PDT
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By Jayme Lozano Carver � The Texas Tribune Subscribe to The Y’all � — a weekly ...
by Texas Tribune
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on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must ...
by Associated Press
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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RICO-indicted co-conspirator Rudy Giuliani’s name comes up in a new lawsuit filed by sibling farmers who say he profited off of a scheme that fleeced them for a cool $1 million. According to “ ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Aug 17, 2023 at 04:55 PM PDT
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Waves of severe thunderstorms in the U.S. during the first half of this year led to $34 billion in insured losses, an unprecedented level of financial damage in such a short time, according to Swiss ...
by Associated Press
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 01:46 PM PDT
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Yes, we can help end hunger, expand food access, and address climate resilience in the new Farm Bill Far too many people experience hunger in our wealthy nation, including 9 million children who are “food insecure.” Around the world, the number of people globally who are severely hungry has increased by 33% since last year. Climate change threatens to...
by Erin Tulley
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on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 08:27 AM PDT
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“The present observed global warming is close to 0.4 degrees C [0.72 F], relative to ‘climatology,’ which is defined as the thirty-year (1951–1980) mean. A warming of 0.4 degrees C is three times larger than the standard deviation of annual mean...
by Meteor Blades
109 comments
on Thu Jun 01, 2023 at 04:35 PM PDT
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Republicans say they are the party of business. As Calvin Coolidge — the epitome of the laissez-faire, fiscal conservative that Republicans pretend they are today — told a gaggle of newspaper editors in 1925, “The chief business of the American people...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon May 15, 2023 at 02:20 PM PDT
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Introduction: Restoring a Farm Justice Farm Bill Iowa’s Tom Harkin has been the greatest Senator of the past 40 years on the Farm Bill, because of his leadership in introducing proposals to restore true Democratic Party farm programs. In 1985 Harkin...
by Iowa Farm Activist
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 06:36 AM PST
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As we all prep and eat Thanksgiving meals,�or any meal in general, it’s important we remember and acknowledge where the food we are eating comes from and the hard work and labor put into getting it.
by Aysha Qamar
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on Thu Nov 24, 2022 at 03:30 PM PST
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Here we are, less than a�day from��learning the fate of democracy in our nation. Some days, it looks bleak, then we hear news that it’s trending towards the Democratic candidates. I’m strangely ...
by DeathBySalad
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 02:00 PM PST
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I am constantly amazed at all the programs that our President has brought forward that most don’t even know about. Only someone who has served many years in Congress and as Vice President would ...
by nailkeg
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on Sun Nov 13, 2022 at 07:00 AM PST
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 07:13 PM PST
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“Why do rural people always vote against their best interest?” This is quite possibly the most condescending phrase rural Democrats come up against on a regular basis—and we’re hearing it from our own. I can assure you that rural voters are no more...
by Rural GroundGame
239 comments
on Mon Jan 17, 2022 at 08:14 AM PST
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