Ah, the tangled tale of Monsanto — a story that could easily be a blockbuster if it weren’t so deeply rooted in profit and poison! Picture this: during the Vietnam War, the U.S. government enlisted Monsanto to produce Agent Orange, a highly toxic herbicide used to strip away jungle cover and expose enemy troops. The […]
Discover how Earl Butz’s “Get Big or Get Out” policy reshaped American farming — driving small farms out, fueling corporate control, and what we can do to restore local agriculture. In the early 1970s, a seismic shift forever changed American agriculture. When Earl Butz, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, declared his now-famous slogan — “Get […]
Explore the origins of American farm co-ops in the 19th-century threshing machine era. Discover how early farmers united to share expensive new technologies, like the threshing machine, fostering community and laying the groundwork for modern cooperatives like ARFC, dedicated to sustainable and collaborative agriculture today.
