From 2013-2021, solely through USDA’s Agriculture Marketing Service, U.S. taxpayers have bought $741,177,717 worth of meat from JBS, a Brazilian corporation, the biggest meatpacker in the world, and a corporation with numerous cases of price fixing, bribing...
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...
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...
Cattlemen all over America are being told to “shut up” by large scale propaganda tactics from Corporate meatpackers. Ask any independent cattle farmer and they will tell you the market is broken; however, industry leaders are telling them to “stop saying...
MRCC member and farmer, Darvin Bentlage, and other farmers spoke with Forbes earlier this month about the drought facing many farmers across the country. “The pastures are burning up,” Fulton, a 28-year veteran of farming the land he inherited, told Forbes....
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