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Recent Press Releases
- New Livestock and Poultry Competition Rules Published (1/13/2020)
- Farm Aid Names RAFI-USA as 2019 Grantee (12/26/2019)
- Food Purchasers Show their Support for Sourcing from Farmers of Color (11/14/2019)
- Blue Cross NC Boosts Access to Healthy Food for Triangle Residents at Area Farmers’ Markets Through “Double Bucks” Program (10/29/2019)
- 84,000 Signatures Strong, Groups Demand USDA Protect Farmers over Meat Monopolies (10/10/2019)
Media Coverage Related to Under Contract: Farmers and the Fine Print
Under Contract is a new documentary film produced by RAFI-USA and released in February 2017.
- The Guardian – Fowl play: the chicken farmers being bullied by big poultry
- The New York Times – Farmers Dismayed That USDA Delays Fair Practice Rule (via the Associated Press)
- Huffington Post – Trump Administration Hits Small Farmers With More Bad News
- Associated Press – Chicken farmers say processors treat them like servants
- Food Republic – This Film Blows The Doors Off The Chicken-Farming Industry
- Bloomberg – Trump Must Choose Between Farmers and ‘Big Meat’
- POLITICO – Chicken farmers hope Trump will jump on GIPSA train
- NPR – After A Long Fight, New Rules Defend Small Farmers. For Now.
- The Wall Street Journal – USDA Issues New Rules Aimed at Protecting Farmers
- Mother Jones – Obama’s USDA Just Played Chicken With the Trump Transition Team
- Paste Magazine – Talking Under Contract with Sally Lee
Recent RAFI-USA Media Coverage
- Opinion: To Win in Rural Areas, Dems Must Take on Ag Monopolies – Daily Yonder, May 29, 2019
- Anchor Institutions of North Carolina: Rural Faith Leaders Gather in Burlington – EdNC, May 22, 2019
- Benny Bunting, Making Sure Farmers Have the Right To Survive – Farm Aid, Apr 23, 2019
- The Crazy Food Fight Over The Future of Vegetables – Men’s Health, Mar 28, 2019
- Building a just food system for all: Notes from RAFI’s Come to the Table conference – EdNC, Mar 25, 2019
- Farmers confront a mental health crisis – The Gazette, Mar 24, 2019
- Members of IEI Attend RAFI’s Come to the Table Conference in Charlotte – Institute for Emerging Issues, Mar 20, 2019
- American Farmers Confront a Mental Health Crisis – Bloomberg, Mar 20, 2019
- Organic Farmers Association Announces Newly Elected Governing Council and Policy Committee – Capital Press, Mar 11, 2019
- The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming – Scientific American, Jan 18, 2019
- Nathaniel Rateliff’s Marigold Project Announces 2018 Grant Recipients – Westword, Jan 16, 2019
- As a New Congress Takes Office, it’s Time to Hit the Pause Button on Big Ag Mergers – Civil Eats, Jan 4, 2019
2011 – 2018
- Hurricane relief concert raises $325,000 – The Reflector, Nov 27, 2018
- Avett Brothers headlining Florence benefit concert Tuesday – WITN, Nov 13, 2018
- Five charities to benefit from Tuesday’s Avett show – The Daily Reflector, Nov 9, 2018
- What to Do With 4.2 Million Dead Poultry After Hurricane Florence? Turn Them Into Compost. – North Carolina Health News, Nov 5, 2018
- Avett Brothers’ hurricane relief concert will help the place they once called home – The News & Observer, Oct 30 2018
- In Sprawling Farm Bill, a $200 Million Corporate Research Subsidy Goes Unnoticed – The Progressive, Sep 25, 2018
- Here and Now September 24, 2018: Hour 2 – WBUR, Sep 24, 2018
- For Farmers, Florence Means Years Of Recovery And Loss Of Resilience – WBUR, Sep 24, 2018
- Hurricane Florence Threatens to Spread Hog Poop Over North Carolina – Wired, Sep 14, 2018
- For Farmers, the Impact of Florence Will Linger for Years – Daily Yonder, Sep 14, 2018
- Relief for Hurricane Florence – Charity Navigator, Sep 14, 2018
- The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses – The Atlantic, Sep 4, 2018
- SNAP Expected to be Harder to Use at Some Farmers Markets – North Carolina Health News, July 18, 2018
- Starting In August, Farmers Markets Will Need Alternative To Process SNAP Benefits – WUNC, July 18, 2018
- RAFI’s Equity at the Table Speaker Series Comes to Wilmington – Dub City Heartbeat, March 22, 2018
- The Government’s Own Watchdog Says Massive Poultry Companies Are Exploiting Small Business Loans – Mother Jones, March 16, 2018
- Seeds Only a Plant Breeder Could Love, Until Now – New York Times, Feb 27, 2018
- Organic farmers launch effort for add-on label after disappointing NOSB actions – IEG Policy, Feb 26, 2018
- A learning ‘Agritunity’: Statesville event connects growers with experts – Statesville Record & Landmark, Jan 26, 2018
- Craft Brewers and Hop Industry Collaborate with Public Breeding – The Daily Yonder, Dec 18, 2017
- Analysis: The big consequence of the Amazon-Whole Foods deal no one’s talking about – The Chicago Tribune, Jun 30, 2017
- Valuing Farmers in the Whole Foods Acquisition – Food Tech Connect, Jun 21, 2017
- How Chicken Farmers Are Getting Clucked in a Supermarket Near You – Truthout, Jun 02, 2017
- 22 Inspirational Women in Food and Agriculture – FoodTank.org, Jun 2017
- Farm Aid highlights heroic work of farm advocates – Farmers Advance, May 31, 2017
- Randolph County farmer using pigs to clear land for cattle pasture – Fox News 8 (Greensboro, NC), May 30, 2017
- Film celebrates ‘farm advocates’ who fought back against rural crisis – The News & Observer, May 18, 2017
- Farm Aid Co-Founder John Mellencamp Hosts Premiere of ‘Homeplace Under Fire,’ Film Profiles Farming Activists – Billboard.com, May 18, 2017
- Farm advocate testifies on importance of USDA financing – Hortidaily, May 5, 2017
- Many Crop Farmers Searching for a Way to at Least Break Even – Agrinet News Network, May 2017
- Lowcountry growers could face the next flood with crop insurance
– The Post and Courier, Oct. 14, 2015 - Poultry Farmers Watch the Sky – Coastal Review Online, Sep 9, 2015
- 3 Questions for Benny Bunting, Farm Advocate – Orion Magazine, Sep 3, 2015
- Autryville’s Buzz – The Sampson Weekly, Jul 17-23, 2015
- Summer Fare: Farmer’s market brings garden varieties downtown – The News Herald, Jul 18, 2015
- Save Your Seeds with Help from Olympia Food Co-op – Thurston Talk, Jul 6, 2015
- Eating in the Meantime: Food Justice Advocates Urged to Probe Deeper – NC Health News, Jun 10, 2015
- Judge Says No to Fracking – Eco Watch, May 21, 2015
- The Color of Food – Natasha Bowens, May 5, 2015
- Vendors to accept SNAP at Morganton Farmers Market – The News Herald, Apr 23, 2015
- There’s a Place That’s Nearly Perfect for Growing Food. It’s Not California. – Mother Jones, Apr 20, 2015
- Conference digs towards the root of hunger in WNC – Smoky Mountain News, Apr 1, 2015
- New Book Tells of Small, Rural Farmers Beating the Odds in Tobacco Country – Seedstock, Mar 12, 2015
- Florida Organic Growers to host agricultural cooperative planning meeting in Live Oak – Suwannee Democrat, Mar 9, 2015
- Railey: Farmer Pushes on for all the right reasons – Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 28, 2015
- Battle Over Breakfast: Consumer Groups Fight Cereal Merger – DailyFinance, Feb 20, 2015
- Conference on hunger at Elon next week – Times-News, Feb 19, 2015
- Advocates Urge FTC to Reject Post-MOM Brands Cereal Merger – Food Consumer, Feb 18, 2015
- Scene & Heard: On small beginnings and great achievement – Winston-Salem Journal, Feb 8, 2015
- SOS: Save our seeds – Sustainable Food Trust, Jan 23, 2015
- Seeds–The Battle for Sustainable Agriculture – Revolve Media, Winter 2014/15, Revolve #14
- Participants express concern over USDA’s coexistence meeting – Agri-Pulse, December 24, 2014
- New Report Finds Farmers Harmed by Decline in Seed Supply – ProAg News, Nov 5, 2014
- Project aims to increase sales, food stamp use at farmers markets – Smoky Mountain News, Oct 29, 2014
- ASAP, RAFI-USA launch program to increase farmers market sales – Mountain XPress, Oct 20, 2014
- Food Justice Certified label aims to verify fair treatment of farm laborers, others in food chain – Food Navigator-USA, Sep 26, 2014
- Farm Aid comes to North Carolina – Carolina Connection, Sep 13, 2014
- Market’s Double Bucks program helps feed families – Chapel Hill News, Aug 19, 2014
- Driller apparently wants to frack Meadowmont in Chapel Hill – INDY Week’s News Blog, Jul 23, 2014
- Fracking company makes offers in Durham – INDY Week’s News Blog, Jul 22, 2014
- The Future of Food: Six things you should know about the state of the American farm – OnEarth Magazine, Jul 7, 2014
- Interview with RAFI Just Foods Director Michael Sligh – Lexicon of Sustainability, Summer 2014
- First Food Justice Certified Farm and Food Stores in New York – Cornell Small Farms Program, Summer 2014
- DFM seeks to help SNAP/EBT Customers – The Herald Sun, Jun 7, 2014
- Tyson Foods Chairman Joins Billionaires Club, While Wages For Chicken Farmers Wane – BuzzFeed, May 13, 2014
- Two farmers’ markets in Durham begin accepting SNAP benefits – The Herald Sun, Apr 26, 2014
- Lee County landowners fight fracking – Carolina Connection, Mar 27, 2014
- As Commodity Farmers Shift Course, a Library to Collect Their Stories – Civil Eats, Mar 25, 2014
- Like Sustainable Food? Support Public Plant Breeding. – Civil Eats, Mar 5, 2014
- The Future of Farming is Open Source – MAKE Magazine, Mar 3, 2014
- The System Supplying America’s Chickens Pits Farmer Vs. Farmer – NPR Morning Edition, Feb 20, 2014
- This Holiday, Farmers Report Consumers Are Shopping Locally for Food – Public News Service (radio), Dec 13, 2013
- Government Shutdown Harms Family Farms – Huffington Post, Oct 2, 2013
- GMO Field Trials: Contamination Concerns – The Epoch Times, Sep 11, 2013
- Fracking rule gets new scrutiny – The Pilot, Sep 3, 2013
- Dixon Family Farms – Our State Magazine, Aug 13, 2013
- Scott Marlow Discusses Global Food Security – CCTV America, Jul 22, 2013
- Put it in your pipe and grow it: Former tobacco farms evolve – Grist Magazine, May 17, 2012
- Our Dwindling Food Variety – National Geographic, Jul 2011
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