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Recent Press Releases
- Press release: USDA must write rules protecting farmers from retaliation this June (5/22/2019)
- Press Release: Agricultural Reinvestment Fund 2019 Grant Awards (3/6/2019)
- Press release: RAFI-USA 2019 Agricultural Reinvestment Fund Grants for Farmers (11/20/2018)
- Press release: Tyson Moves to Increase Lion’s Share of Market Control (8/29/2018)
- RESPONSE TO CHAIRMAN’S MARK: Senate Agriculture Committee’s Draft Farm Bill is a Hopeful Step (6/11/2018)
Recent Media Coverage Related to Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print
Under Contract is a new documentary film produced by RAFI and released in February 2017.- The Guardian – Fowl play: the chicken farmers being bullied by big poultry
- The New York Times – Farmers Dismayed That USDA Delays Fair Practice Rule (via the Associated Press)
- Huffington Post – Trump Administration Hits Small Farmers With More Bad News
- Associated Press – Chicken farmers say processors treat them like servants
- Food Republic – This Film Blows The Doors Off The Chicken-Farming Industry
- Bloomberg – Trump Must Choose Between Farmers and ‘Big Meat’
- POLITICO – Chicken farmers hope Trump will jump on GIPSA train
- NPR – After A Long Fight, New Rules Defend Small Farmers. For Now.
- The Wall Street Journal – USDA Issues New Rules Aimed at Protecting Farmers
- Mother Jones – Obama’s USDA Just Played Chicken With the Trump Transition Team
- Paste Magazine – Talking Under Contract with Sally Lee
Recent RAFI Media Coverage
- The Crazy Food Fight Over The Future of Vegetables Men’s Health March 28, 2019
- Building a just food system for all: Notes from RAFI’s Come to the Table conference EdNC, March 25, 2019
- Farmers confront a mental health crisis The Gazette March 24, 2019
- American Farmers Confront a Mental Health Crisis Bloomberg March 20, 2019
- Organic Farmers Association Announces Newly Elected Governing Council and Policy Committee Capital Press, March 11, 2019
- Nathaniel Rateliff’s Marigold Project Announces 2018 Grant Recipients Westword, Jan 16, 2019
- The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming Scientific American, Jan 18, 2019
- As a New Congress Takes Office, it’s Time to Hit the Pause Button on Big Ag Mergers Civil Eats, Jan 4, 2019
- Hurricane relief concert raises $325,000 The Reflector, Nov 27, 2018
- Avett Brothers headlining Florence benefit concert Tuesday WITN, Nov 13 2018
- Five charities to benefit from Tuesday’s Avett show The Daily Reflector, Nov 9, 2018
- What to Do With 4.2 Million Dead Poultry After Hurricane Florence? Turn Them Into Compost. North Carolina Health News, Nov 5, 2018
- Avett Brothers’ hurricane relief concert will help the place they once called home The News & Observer, Oct 30 2018
- In Sprawling Farm Bill, a $200 Million Corporate Research Subsidy Goes Unnoticed The Progressive, Sep 25, 2018
- Here and Now September 24, 2018: Hour 2 WBUR, Sep 24, 2018
- For Farmers, Florence Means Years Of Recovery And Loss Of Resilience WBUR, Sep 24, 2018
- Hurricane Florence Threatens to Spread Hog Poop Over North Carolina Wired, Sep 14, 2018
- For Farmers, the Impact of Florence Will Linger for Years Daily Yonder, Sep 14, 2018
- Relief for Hurricane Florence Charity Navigator, Sep 14, 2018
- The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses The Atlantic, Sep 4, 2018
- SNAP Expected to be Harder to Use at Some Farmers Markets North Carolina Health News, July 18, 2018
- Starting In August, Farmers Markets Will Need Alternative To Process SNAP Benefits WUNC, July 18, 2018
- RAFI’s Equity at the Table Speaker Series Comes to Wilmington Dub City Heartbeat, March 22, 2018
- The Government’s Own Watchdog Says Massive Poultry Companies Are Exploiting Small Business Loans Mother Jones, March 16, 2018
- Seeds Only a Plant Breeder Could Love, Until Now New York Times, Feb 27, 2018
- Organic farmers launch effort for add-on label after disappointing NOSB actions IEG Policy, Feb. 26, 2018
- A learning ‘Agritunity’: Statesville event connects growers with experts Statesville Record & Landmark, Jan. 26, 2018
2011 – 2017
- Craft Brewers and Hop Industry Collaborate with Public Breeding The Daily Yonder, Dec. 18, 2017
- Analysis: The big consequence of the Amazon-Whole Foods deal no one’s talking about The Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2017
- Valuing Farmers in the Whole Foods Acquisition Food Tech Connect, June 21, 2017
- 22 Inspirational Women in Food and Agriculture FoodTank.org, June 2017
- Farm advocate testifies on importance of USDA financing Hortidaily, May 5, 2017
- Many Crop Farmers Searching for a Way to at Least Break Even Agrinet News Network, May 2017
- How Chicken Farmers Are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You Truthout, June 02, 2017
- Farm Aid highlights heroic work of farm advocates Farmers Advance, May 31, 2017
- Randolph County farmer using pigs to clear land for cattle pasture Fox News 8 (Greensboro, NC), May 30, 2017
- Film celebrates ‘farm advocates’ who fought back against rural crisis The News & Observer, May 18, 2017
- Farm Aid Co-Founder John Mellencamp Hosts Premiere of ‘Homeplace Under Fire,’ Film Profiles Farming Activists Billboard.com, May 18, 2017
- Lowcountry growers could face the next flood with crop insurance The Post and Courier, Oct. 14, 2015
- Poultry Farmers Watch the Sky Coastal Review Online, Sept. 9, 2015
- 3 Questions for Benny Bunting, Farm Advocate Orion Magazine, Sept. 3, 2015
- Autryville’s Buzz The Sampson Weekly, July 17-23, 2015
- Summer Fare: Farmer’s market brings garden varieties downtown The News Herald, July 18, 2015
- Save Your Seeds with Help from Olympia Food Co-op Thurston Talk, July 6, 2015
- Eating in the Meantime: Food Justice Advocates Urged to Probe Deeper NC Health News, June 10, 2015
- Judge Says No to Fracking Eco Watch, May 21, 2015
- The Color of Food Natasha Bowens, May 5, 2015
- Vendors to accept SNAP at Morganton Farmers Market The News Herald, April 23, 2015
- There’s a Place That’s Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It’s Not California. Mother Jones, April 20, 2015
- Conference digs towards the root of hunger in WNC Smoky Mountain News, April 1, 2015
- New Book Tells of Small, Rural Farmers Beating the Odds in Tobacco Country Seedstock, March 12, 2015
- Florida Organic Growers to host agricultural cooperative planning meeting in Live Oak Suwannee Democrat, March 9, 2015
- Railey: Farmer Pushes on for all the right reasons Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 28, 2015
- Battle Over Breakfast: Consumer Groups Fight Cereal Merger DailyFinance, Feb 20, 2015
- Conference on hunger at Elon next week Times-News, Feb 19, 2015
- Advocates Urge FTC to Reject Post-MOM Brands Cereal Merger Food Consumer, Feb 18, 2015
- Scene & Heard: On small beginnings and great achievement
- Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 8, 2015
- SOS: Save our seeds Sustainable Food Trust, Jan 23, 2015
- Seeds–The Battle for Sustainable Agriculture Revolve Media, Winter 2014/15, Revolve #14
- Participants express concern over USDA’s coexistence meeting Agri-Pulse, December 24, 2014
- New Report Finds Farmers Harmed by Decline in Seed Supply ProAg News, Nov 5, 2014
- Project aims to increase sales, food stamp use at farmers markets Smoky Mountain News, Oct 29, 2014
- ASAP, RAFI-USA launch program to increase farmers market sales Mountain XPress, Oct 20, 2014
- Food Justice Certified label aims to verify fair treatment of farm laborers, others in food chain Food Navigator-USA, Sept. 26, 2014
- Farm Aid comes to North Carolina Carolina Connection, Sept. 13, 2014
- Market’s Double Bucks program helps feed families Chapel Hill News, Aug 19, 2014
- Driller apparently wants to frack Meadowmont in Chapel Hill INDY Week’s News Blog, July 23, 2014
- Fracking company makes offers in Durham INDY Week’s News Blog, July 22, 2014
- The Future of Food: Six things you should know about the state of the American farm OnEarth Magazine, July 7, 2014
- Interview with RAFI Just Foods Director Michael Sligh Lexicon of Sustainability, Summer 2014
- First Food Justice Certified Farm and Food Stores in New York Cornell Small Farms Program, Summer 2014
- DFM seeks to help SNAP/EBT Customers The Herald Sun, June 7, 2014
- Tyson Foods Chairman Joins Billionaires Club, While Wages For Chicken Farmers Wane BuzzFeed, May 13, 2014
- Two farmers’ markets in Durham begin accepting SNAP benefits The Herald Sun, April 26, 2014
- Lee County landowners fight fracking Carolina Connection, March 27, 2014
- As Commodity Farmers Shift Course, a Library to Collect Their Stories Civil Eats, March 25, 2014
- Like Sustainable Food? Support Public Plant Breeding. Civil Eats, March 5, 2014
- The Future of Farming is Open Source MAKE Magazine, March 3, 2014
- The System Supplying America’s Chickens Pits Farmer Vs. Farmer NPR Morning Edition, February 20, 2014
- This Holiday, Farmers Report Consumers Are Shopping Locally for Food Public News Service (radio), December 13, 2013
- Government Shutdown Harms Family Farms Huffington Post, Oct. 2, 2013
- GMO Field Trials: Contamination Concerns The Epoch Times, Sept. 11, 2013
- Fracking rule gets new scrutiny The Pilot, Sept. 3, 2013
- Dixon Family Farms Our State Magazine, Aug. 13, 2013
- Scott Marlow Discusses Global Food Security CCTV America, July 22, 2013
- Put it in your pipe and grow it: Former tobacco farms evolve Grist Magazine, May 17, 2012
- Our Dwindling Food Variety National Geographic, July 2011