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Family Farmers

The Mean-spirited and Empty Land of Giant Agriculture

Evaggelos Vallianatos | Posted 06.04.2013 | Green
Evaggelos Vallianatos

On May 26, 2013, a friend and I ventured into the alien world of the Imperial Valley of California where "farming" engulfs the Salton Sea. In the brig...

Fighting for Family Farmers

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 06.01.2013 | Green
Danielle Nierenberg

Family farmers have been and will always continue to be critical to national and global food security. Food Tank will be featuring posts focused on the issues and innovations critical to family farmers around the world, as well as actions everyone can take to support them.

Nonprofit Helps Midwestern Farmers Affected by Drought

Posted 07.28.2012 | Impact

The nonprofit Farm Rescue is working free of cost to ensure that nothing interferes with America's family-run farms amid a devastating summer drought....

Occupy Iowa Caucus: A Democrat "Uncommitted" in 2012 or Why I Won't Caucus for Obama a Second Time

Dave Murphy | Posted 03.04.2012 | Politics
Dave Murphy

The question now for Iowa Democrats is, will they blindly stand by their man or will they express their dissatisfaction with Obama's complete failure to follow through on what he promised us during his first tour through the Iowa countryside?

Feeding Our Families and Our Farmers

Mike Callicrate | Posted 12.02.2011 | Home
Mike Callicrate

In the last 30 years, 90 percent of our pork producers, more than 80 percent of our dairymen, and more than 40 percent of our ranchers have been driven out of business. Is this what we want?