Those folks are having trouble getting on board with just the baseline collective actions needed for public health. Currently, so many folks in the rural parts of the country see this crisis as an urban thing. But if we look back at the influenza pandemic of (supposedly) 1918-19–which act...
With this as the backdrop, states will soon be starting their 2024 legislative sessions. Given the state of things these days, it’s hard to predict what may happen. But based on all we’ve seen in 2023, these are the issues we believe will get the most attention from state lawmakers ...
Three of the most significant traditions are the gatherings at Hora Finfinnee, in Finfinnee the capital city of Oromia &Ethiopia, Hora Arsadi, a lake in Bishoftu and Malkaa Ateetee, in Buraayyu near Finfinnee where millions of participants dip grass and flowers into the water as a sign ...
Ruth Conniff is the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and a former editor of The Progressive magazine. She is the author of Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers (The New Press). Baffler Newsletter New email subscribers receive a ...
In early April I spoke to the New Zealand Farm Forestry Conference in Napier about farm forestry options as I saw them. Most of the farmers I was talking to have had many years of experience in farm forestry, so I was certainly not going to tell them how to grow trees. Rather, I exp...
Brazilian family farmers are: (1) good performance, (2) easy cultivation and adaptability, and (3) the need of adapting to climate change. Other studies employ descriptive and inferential statistical analysis to identify explanatory variables associated with decisional patterns. Basing on data surveyed...
Farmers walk by a cornfield at sunset, with the man pushing a wheelbarrow of vegetables, their silhouettes highlighted HD Farmers working on farmland field 4K Couple of farmers are resting lying in the field after harvest HD Farmers working on farmland...
having to buy, manage, or finance any properties themselves. REITs own many types of commercial real estate, including office and apartment buildings, warehouses, hospitals, shopping centers, hotels and commercial forests. Some REITs engage in financing real estate. 不动产投资信托基金(REIT),也称“...
As NCWA President David Guy recently wrote, California farmers are no strangers to drought, although one of the driest years in California has widespread and significant impacts in the Sacramento Valley. To provide some context for the dry year and the economic impacts, see the recent paper prepa...
Smithfieldannouncedit was closing down and ceasing operations indefinitely after more than 300 of its 3,700 workers tested positive for COVID 19. More than 550 independent family farmers supply the plant. This is a huge blow to Sioux Falls and South Dakota, as well as a kick in the gut to...