The U.S. Department of Agriculture is finalizing rules aimed at increasing protections for contract farmers who grow the nation s poultry and cattle for giant meatpacking corporations. Supporters of the changes said they will result in fairer pay for farmers and reduce deceptive and discriminatory industry practices, particularly against farmers of color. .
This winter, military veterans will have an opportunity to translate hard-won skills on the battlefield into Nebraska s fields and pastures through "Putting the Pieces Together," a U.S. Department of Agriculture-backed program. Martin Neal served 31 years in the U.S. .
Farmworkers are touring Washington state to call for better conditions in agriculture. The union Familias Unidas por la Justicia, based in northwest Washington, has organized the tour, which started Sunday. It s scheduled to be in Seattle today, then travel to Olympia and Wenatchee. .
Musician and sociologist Jason Davis will serve this fall as the East Tennessee State University Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science,
A recent study by researchers from East Tennessee State University and Appalachian State University confirmed two things we journalists already knew about our industry.
For their work looking at the COVID-19 pandemicâs effects on news reporting, Dr. Mimi Perreault and Dr. Gregory Perreault interviewed working journalists and examined articles and discussions about journalism in industry-specific publications and websites.
What they found was, much like everyone else, the people who gather and report news are taking this yearlong pandemic day by day.
Before March of last year, we didnât know the term âsocial distancing,â and calculating seven-day averages was not something we could do so effortlessly. Since the start of the global pandemic, weâve had to learn new and complex concepts and then figure out how to explain them to our readers.