Source: AGRI-PULSE, 1/9/17


From this last election, the country was reminded that rural America has a voice. It is time to make sure the voices of family farmers are heard as well. Moments after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a long-awaited regulation, which aims to protect individual poultry growers and livestock producers from the relentlessly unfair practices in the meat packing sector, those representing the packing industry lashed out...

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