Missouri Rural Crisis Center has been fighting against foreign corporate ownership of farmland since day one. Our own Tim Gibbons sat down with Steve Kraske of KCUR’s “Up to Date” to discuss the importance of the issue and its increasing...
Our federal government and anti-trust regulators should stop the proposed acquisition of TriOak by JBS (Brazilian corporation and the biggest meatpacker in the world). “These types of mergers are increasing corporations’ ability to collude and control markets more...
It’s a farmer and consumer emergency–for every dollar, Americans spend on groceries, farmers are now receiving less than 15 cents, the smallest portion since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began tracking this data in 1993. Studies have shown that the...
MRCC has been working to stop foreign corporate ownership of MO farmland since 2013–the year the legislature passed a bill that opened up 289,000 acres of Missouri farmland to foreign corporate interests. We got then-Governor Nixon to veto the bill, but the...
MRCC was interviewed on this FoodPrint podcast about the “Power of Big Pork”…although, here at MRCC, we know that all of us, farmers, consumers, urban and rural, have the real power when we unite and fight against corporate control of our food system...
MRCC member and cattle and grain farmer wrote this, which was placed in The Kansas City Star.”In the last two decades, hundreds of thousands of U.S. cattle producers have gone out of business, and we are currently losing 40 operations per day by some estimates....
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