Devin Foote is a 24-year-old beginning farmer at Common Ground Farm in Beacon, New York. Throughout the growing season, Devin will be chronicling his experiences as a young farmer growing for a local food system.
KAW letter to the White House urging the Obama Administration to support the Food and Drug Administration in its newly announced goal of restricting the non-judicious uses of antibiotics in animal agriculture. H. R. 1549 and S. 619, The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (PAMTA).
Believe it or not, August is already here and the first day of school is just around the corner! Parents are gearing up for the school year and literally “gearing up” their kids with all the implements their class lists require.
The July–August issue of the Monthly Review features IATP's Sophia Murphy and her essay "Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time is Done;" an examination of the original promises of free trade in agriculture and what ac
A New York congresswoman is trying to rally support for a federal bill that would restrict antibiotic use in food animals just months after a similar measure tanked in California.
No part of the U.S. has been spared from the current financial crisis, but rural communities—already among the nations poorest—have been hit particularly hard.
The Northwest timber industry has been decimated by the nationwide housing slump. But one mill is still churning out planks.
It's on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in north-central Oregon. The tribes found an unlikely niche market -- sending their timber to Japan.
