Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey

April 23, 2013Blog

by Richard Oswald, Missouri Farmers Union president Read the original post at the Daily Yonder. Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen … Read More

Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey

April 23, 2013Blog

by Richard Oswald, Missouri Farmers Union president Read the original post at the Daily Yonder. Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen … Read More

Tales from Cuba

April 19, 2013Blog

by Tim Velde, Minnesota Farmers Union member I had quite a contrast in surroundings earlier this year. After spending five exciting days in Springfield, Mass., on the policy committee for … Read More

Tales from Cuba

April 19, 2013Blog

by Tim Velde, Minnesota Farmers Union member I had quite a contrast in surroundings earlier this year. After spending five exciting days in Springfield, Mass., on the policy committee for … Read More

What a food consumer wants

April 16, 2013Blog

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Read the original post at agpolicy.org. Recently we ran across a White Paper … Read More

What a food consumer wants

April 16, 2013Blog

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Read the original post at agpolicy.org. Recently we ran across a White Paper … Read More

Highlights from the President’s budget

April 12, 2013Blog

by NFU Government Relations Staff President Obama released his budget for the 2014 fiscal year on Wednesday, largely positioned as a “middle ground” between the tax increases in the Senate-passed … Read More

What do those meat labels mean, anyway?

April 12, 2013Blog

by Amy Lesperance, NFU Intern Have you been at the butcher counter of your local grocery store and wondered about the Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) stickers that say something like, “Product of … Read More

Highlights from the President’s budget

April 12, 2013Blog

by NFU Government Relations Staff President Obama released his budget for the 2014 fiscal year on Wednesday, largely positioned as a “middle ground” between the tax increases in the Senate-passed … Read More

What do those meat labels mean, anyway?

April 12, 2013Blog

by Amy Lesperance, NFU Intern Have you been at the butcher counter of your local grocery store and wondered about the Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) stickers that say something like, “Product of … Read More

COOL: some are for it, some are not

April 10, 2013Blog

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Read the original post at agpolicy.org. More than a decade after mandatory Country … Read More

COOL: some are for it, some are not

April 10, 2013Blog

by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Read the original post at agpolicy.org. More than a decade after mandatory Country … Read More

The Truth about COOL

April 3, 2013Blog

by Amy Lesperance, NFU Intern Farmers Union has always supported mandatory labeling as a promotional tool for our domestic producers to highlight the superiority of their products.  American producers are proud … Read More

The Truth about COOL

April 3, 2013Blog

by Amy Lesperance, NFU Intern Farmers Union has always supported mandatory labeling as a promotional tool for our domestic producers to highlight the superiority of their products.  American producers are proud … Read More

A Diverse Show of Support for COOL

April 2, 2013Blog

by Brittany Jablonsky, Director of Advocacy Communications Today NFU joined a diverse coalition of 228 other organizations in delivering a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging him to … Read More

A Diverse Show of Support for COOL

April 2, 2013Blog

by Brittany Jablonsky, Director of Advocacy Communications Today NFU joined a diverse coalition of 228 other organizations in delivering a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging him to … Read More

Senate Passes a Budget

March 27, 2013Blog

by Brittany Jablonsky, Director of Advocacy Communications On Saturday, the Senate passed a budget on a 50-49 vote, with four Democrats, Sens. Max Baucus, Mont., Mark Begich, Alaska, Mark Pryor, … Read More