U.S. Representative Lauren Underwood met with a group of Vietnam-era veterans at the VFW Cantigny Post 367 on Saturday to recognize their service for Veterans Day.
After a devastating hailstorm in eastern Oregon, community members are lending each other a helping hand. In mid-August, a severe storm dropped hail the size of baseballs on the town of Wallowa. It damaged nearly every vehicle in the town of 800, smashed windows and battered roofs. .
An organization defending the rights of thousands of farmworkers in Ohio and other states is creating its road map for the future. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee recently held its 14th Quadrennial Convention in Northwest Ohio. Baldemar Velasquez, president of the committee, explained one major challenge is farmworkers are not protected under the National Labor Relations Act because they are not defined as employees. .
Supporters of a long-standing North Dakota law emphasizing family farms are celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, at a time of increased debate about the influence of corporate agriculture. The state s Anti-Corporate Farming Law came together through a citizens initiative in 1932 when Midwestern farmers were going bankrupt, and out-of-state financial institutions were handling those cases. The law was meant to protect the land from being swallowed up by larger operations. .
Some farmers of color have been hesitant to interact with the U.S. Department of Agriculture s Farm Service Agency after a history of discrimination, but owners of one farm in Warfield say they ve had a positive experience working the agency. Herbert Brown Jr., operator of BrownTown Farms in Warfield, works the same land his great-grandfather did in the early 1900s. .