Many Michigan residents will lose their right to keep livestock on their own property due to a new ruling from the state’s Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Commission ruled April 28 that local governments have the right to ...
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New FDA Rules Will Put Organic Farms Out Of Business
In its efforts to ensure the safety of food, the US government may actually be ignoring the real problem while shutting down small organic farms. So says the Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based farm policy research group which released a 16-page ...
Read More »Department of Transportation Looking to Put Small Farmers Out of Business
In May of this year, the Department of Transportation proposed a potential rule change that could dramatically impact already-beleaguered small farmers across the nation. The DOT, operating through the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has suddenly decided that all farm ...
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