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3rd Annual Harrison Career Center FFA Tractor, Truck, Engine, and Car Show
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Trade War Fears Have Ohio Valley Soy Growers Nervous
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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China buys more than half of the soybeans grown in the Ohio Valley. So China’s threat this week to place a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soy means farmers would be caught in the crosshairs of a trade war. Even though tariffs haven’t taken effect, markets are already showing signs that commodities traders are growing… Read More
Feds Deny Poultry Industry Request To Increase Work Speed
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has denied a petition by the National Chicken Council to remove the speed limit on work at some slaughterhouses, a move that food safety advocates are calling a victory for workers and consumers. As the Ohio Valley ReSource reported in October, the National Chicken Council proposal could have increased the line speed for some workers in processing… Read More
Farmers Fond of Trump But Growing Nervous About Trade
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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When President Trump spoke to the American Farm Bureau annual convention this month he focused on the regulatory rollbacks and tax cuts that motivated many farmers to help vote him into office. “We are doing a job for you,” Trump told an auditorium filled with farmers. “You’re seeing it like nobody else: regulation, death tax,… Read More
25th Anniversary Happy Hour for Community Food Initiatives
Join CFI for a night of live music from Caitlin Kraus at West End Ciderhouse! In honor of our 25th anniversary, we are kicking off a year-long fundraising campaign with the goal of raising $25,000 to support our programs.Right now, we are in the middle of a GlobalGiving campaign to benefit the Donation Station. All… Read More
The Soybean Is King, Yet Remains Invisible
By: Dan Charles | NPR
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For the first time in history, soybeans are about to become America’s most widely grown crop. Yet compared to corn or wheat, they remain curiously invisible in American culture.
Impossible? The Bleeding Veggie Burger
By: Julie Grant | The Allegheny Front
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Few things have as big an impact on our environment as the food we eat. Agriculture accounts for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. And beef production, in particular, uses copious amounts of water, when compared with other foods. So, some environmentally conscious meat lovers have been working in the lab, to create a vegan… Read More
Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of Labor program guarantees a wage in Kentucky of $10.92 an hour. But Gonzales said the workers were only getting between $3 and $8 per hour…. Read More
Speedy Decision: Are Poultry Processors Pushing Safety Limits?
By: Nicole Erwin | Ohio Valley ReSource
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After serving five years in the Navy Tyler Dunn has returned home to Hickman, Kentucky. These days, if he isn’t at work at the local liquor store or completing assignments for a business degree, you might find him surrounded by one of several stray cats he saved from a parking lot. It’s hard to reconcile… Read More
On Strike: Migrant Workers On Visa Program Claim Unfair Pay
By: Benny Becker | Ohio Valley ReSource
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Workers on a tobacco farm in Garrard County, Kentucky, are entering the third week of a strike over claims that they have not received the pay guaranteed by a federal work visa program. The strike is part of a movement across the South and Midwest to organize migrant laborers who enter the country legally to… Read More