On April 21st, 250 people showed up in MRCC’s parking lot to celebrate local farmers, local food businesses, the Mid-Missouri community, and delicious food. The event included: a free local food meal prepared by Fresh Harvest Grill and range free , locally grown...
The risks of our highly consolidated processing system may have come to light for many during the pandemic, but these consequences aren’t new. For decades, Missouri Rural Crisis Center has heard from our members who raise livestock about the limited options for...
So where is the money consumers are paying going, if not back to the farmers? Gibbons said he knows exactly where the money is going. “It’s the corporate agriculture business and the big multi-national corporate and foreign meat packing industry. At the expense of...
Recently, in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a mouthpiece for the corporate meatpacking industry, complained that the Biden Administration’s work to combat concentration in the agriculture industry cannot ignore...
Finally, some good news for the agriculture and food industries. President Joe Biden issued an executive order that takes aim at breaking up monopolistic control and promoting competition in several industries, including agriculture and food. Read more of MRCC members...
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