On Thursday afternoons, Peggy Crawford, Ed Auman, and several other volunteers gather at West End Presbyterian Church in West End, North Carolina to prepare for the delivery of sixty-five boxes of…
The Conaway-Costa Amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill, which passed the House Agriculture Committee today, guts a 2011 USDA rule that protects thousands of American poultry growers from exploitative contracts, farm groups say.
June 11, 2012 – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee is voting on amendments to the Farm Bill. We found out last night that one of those amendments…
July 2, 2012— Today, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode Governor Perdue’s veto of SB820. The bill legalizes fracking in the state and could allow drilling by 2014. RAFI was…
