With Few Buyers on Hand, Farmers Resort to Grotesque Methods: Smothering Thousands of Birds, Steaming Live Hogs to Death
Environment, Featured Story, The Latest News
How Big Corporations Are Poisoning the Nation’s Farms
It’s About Ignoring Nature and Lobbying in the Trump Administration By Sarah Okeson How did farmers who had shunned deadly dicamba for decades end up buying it even as the herbicide poisoned their neighbors’ farms? The answer is money. Bayer AG and BASF, makers of dicamba, have spent more than $40 million in federal lobbying…
Economy, Featured Story, The Latest News
Trump’s Ho-Hum Economy in Three Graphs
Taking Over in a Boom, Trump Logs Just Mediocre GDP and Jobs Growth, While Farmers Are in Deep Trouble