Category Archives: Farming

Cheese Trade Causing Problems For Dairy Farmers

Posted on April 28, 2005 by bfiachadthompson

Cheese Trade Causing Problems For Dairy Farmers

 
Some days, you really learn just how dependent we are on trusting others to pay a fair price for goods and services.  This article comes by way of A.V. Kreb's Agribusiness Examiner.  A group of dairy farmers is protesting the ability of Big Dairy to manipulate prices to the advantage of the buyers.


IT'S A STRUGGLE BETWEEN
SMALL DAIRY FARMERS
AMD MULTINATIONALS IN
MERC CHEDDAR CHEESE PIT

JEREMY GRANT, LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES: Every morning, about 30 people gather in a corner of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to conduct one of the world's most unusual auctions: buying and selling cheddar cheese.

Traders with telephones pressed to their ears shout orders to two men standing in front of a white board, on which they mark up bids and offers. The session is the only one of its kind in the U.S. and probably one of the shortest commodity auctions, never lasting more than 15 minutes.

Cheese trading has carried on largely unnoticed for years, but this week it has become an unexpectedly public battleground in the struggle between small farmers and “big dairy” multinationals.

A coalition of farmers and consumer groups gathered outside the exchange on Monday, many dressed in cow suits, to protest against alleged price manipulation on the market. Their targets were dairy co-operatives such as the Dairy Farmers of America, the largest grouping in the country's second biggest agricultural sector, and multinational food companies such as Kraft Foods.
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Cityview: An Earth Day Portrait

Posted on April 26, 2005 by bfiachadthompson

Cityview:  An Earth Day Portrait While the timeliness of this post might not be very good, I found a very good article discussing Iowa's environmental record on a number of topics.  This comes from the Des Moines independent weekly “Cityview”, … Continue reading →

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Beyond Earth Day: It’s Time for Iowa to Face the Music

Posted on April 23, 2005 by Trish Nelson

Beyond Earth Day:  It's Time for Iowa to Face the Music Cityview – Des Moines By Carolyn Szczepanski When the first Earth Day erupted, rivers were burning and citizens were suffocating in a country infected with oppressive pollution. On April … Continue reading →

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Iowa Department of Agriculture Bans Sale of Homeopathic Remedies for Livestock

Posted on April 19, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Iowa Department of Agriculture Bans Sale of Homeopathic Remedies for Livestock And to think that the University of Iowa used to have a thriving School of Homeopathy until the AMA killed it off! This came in today from Wisconsin: We … Continue reading →

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John Drury: Random Views From A Community Activist

Posted on April 12, 2005 by bfiajohndrury

Random Views From A Community Activist by John Drury I thought I would take the opportunity to comment on a few things that have been happening in politics … Truth Bill Dead Republican leadership in the Iowa House has given … Continue reading →

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Attend a Public Forum in Iowa on a Harmful Pesticide

Posted on April 9, 2005 by Trish Nelson

Attend a Public Forum in Iowa on a Harmful Pesticide Defenders of Wildlife Defenders of Wildlife is urging you to attend a public forum on atrazine – one of the most widely used corn herbicides in the United States. Atrazine … Continue reading →

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Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability

Posted on April 8, 2005 by bfialindathieman

 Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability Pesticide Action Network North America Many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed “acceptable” levels. Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability, makes public for … Continue reading →

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How Rural Voters Helped Their Abusers Further Humiliate Them

Posted on April 7, 2005 by bfialindathieman

How Rural Voters Helped Their Abusers Further Humiliate Them Agribusiness Examiner by John Hansen, President, Nebraska Farmers Union As a recent New YorkTimes article on ag subsidies clearly shows, family farm agriculture is now reaping the public perception and political … Continue reading →

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John Drury: Regulating De-regulation in Iowa

Posted on April 5, 2005 by bfiajohndrury

Regulating De-regulation in Iowa by John Drury First off, congratulations are in order to Linda and Blog for Iowa on the one year anniversary. Linda has obviously put a lot of work and dedication into this site and it really … Continue reading →

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Suicide Gene Bill Passes Iowa Senate

Posted on March 30, 2005 by bfialindathieman

Suicide Gene Bill Passes Iowa Senate by Iowa State Rep. Mark Kuhn (D-Floyd) Dear Friends,   SF 259, the companion bill to HF 259, passed the [Iowa] Senate by a vote of 33-16 with 1 absent.  I wrote and distributed … Continue reading →

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