by Beef News | Jul 23, 2025 | Culture, Farm Policy, Land Rights
In Oregon, it’s still legal to install a solar farm on agricultural land. But don’t even think about selling marionberry jam from your neighbor’s crop stand, hosting a flower-arranging class, or serving soup under a tent. Under the Oregon Department of...
by Beef News | Jul 22, 2025 | Farm Policy, Business, Culture, Milk
It starts with a rotary parlor and a thousand cows. Before the sun comes up in Mandan, North Dakota, Dawson Holle is managing crews, driving the semi to pick up corn or straw, and fielding legislative calls from the Capitol. He’s 21. He’s the youngest elected lawmaker...
by Beef News | Jul 21, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Science
While America’s farmers struggle to navigate corporate monopolies and rising input costs, a quiet clause buried on page 196 of a House spending bill could lock pesticide safety to foreign-controlled science—and tie the hands of U.S. regulators. Welcome to Section 453...
by Beef News | Jul 11, 2025 | Business, Culture, Farm Policy
The largest meat company in the world isn’t American—and it isn’t clean. It’s JBS , a Brazilian behemoth with a rap sheet that reads like a corporate RICO indictment: bribery, money laundering, price fixing, deforestation, and cartel-linked cattle laundering. Now it’s...
by Beef News | Jul 9, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy, Health
After nearly a year of emergency closures, U.S. cattle ports are beginning to reopen—starting with Douglas, Arizona, with Columbus and Santa Teresa, New Mexico expected next. That means live cattle from Mexico are once again flowing north, tagged, dipped, and...
by Beef News | Jul 4, 2025 | Culture, Business, Farm Policy
The Douglas’ Home on the TV Show Green Acres “They canceled anything with a tree in it.”—Pat Buttram (actor, Green Acres) on CBS’s sweeping rural purge In 1971, two quiet purges reshaped America. One struck the land. The other struck the airwaves. The first came...
