This post was written by Kate Svitavsky, Community Broadband Networks initiative intern. Kate is pursuing her Master’s in Public Policy at the Humphrey School of...
Corporate owned farms tend to be large-scale operations that produce food for consumers who are widely dispersed geographically. They are also operations whose profits are...
Increasingly, a small handful of corporations control inputs, credit, elevators, processing facilities, and markets necessary to grow and distribute agricultural products. Since the last half...
The United States, birthplace to the Internet, now lags in access to it. Countriesin Asia and Europe now have faster and cheaper connections, allowing their...
Wind and Ethanol Economies and Diseconomies of Scale – John Farrell discusses a new report and the benefits that smaller scale, locally owned renewable energy...
Supermarket chains in the northeast are using their market power to reap record profits on milk at the expense of both dairy farmers and consumers,...
British farmers and environmentalists are irate over the government’s new regulations governing the way major supermarket chains deal with their suppliers. The binding Code of...
A New York court has let stand a local law enacted by the town of Mamaroneck governing development outside its borders. Under the law, large-scale...
Published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Midwestern lawmakers are working vigorously to defeat congressional reauthorization of the Northeast Dairy Compact, scheduled to expire in September....
After years of suffering heavy hits from industry consolidation and low prices, small livestock farmers and independent meat processors are getting a second chance through...
Forty years ago, two roads diverged in the chicken industry. Sick of being squeezed by processors, Canadian poultry farmers asked their local governments to construct...
If you’ve always wanted to be an activist but stayed away because of the bad food and long hours, there’s good news. A group called...
Two years ago, a group of independent restaurant owners in Tucson, Arizona stopped thinking of themselves as competitors and launched a collective effort to counter...
Feature Stories: Deep Pockets or Open Hans: Credit Unions Struggle Over Size — Hogging the Market — Got (Local) Milk — A Case of the...
A few years ago, New England tried to save their local dairy farms with a regional pricing structure called a dairy compact. Now Congress has...