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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 02, 2025
In this opinion piece, Missouri farmer Blake Hurst argues that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his Make America Healthy Again movement would actually make Americans' health worse and their food more expensive.
U.S. and Mexican officials met behind closed doors last week to discuss Mexico’s ban on tortilla makers using genetically modified white corn, even as Mexico tries to publicly justify its action with claims that the grain is a threat to the country.
Farmland values are maintaining their strength, and loan volumes are declining, but economic growth in rural parts of the Midwest and northern Plains remains slow, according to Creighton University's Rural Mainstreet Index.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making headway on a major Mississippi River project that will make barge transportation on the river more efficient.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Kentucky Farm Bureau are partnering to support communities in the state’s eastern region impacted by recent flash flooding.