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Ticks bite him several times a week from May through November. Some days, he’s removed as many as 60 from each of his two working dogs. “It’s brutal out here,” he said. “You talk to other farmers, and they don’t talk about the weather anymore. They talk about how bad the ticks are that day.” […]

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Your stomach drops when you see another pile of indistinguishable, grey potato/soy/gravy slop in the tray’s entree slot. You sit down and start eating anyway, until the guy across the table starts shouting. “There’s a mouse in my food!” You don’t want to look, but you do anyway. “No. It’s half a mouse!” It was […]

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Ela, who owns Ela Family Farms with his wife and business partner, Regan Choi, has kind eyes and an easy smile that make him well-suited to selling plums and cherries at farmers’ markets. His glasses are often perched on a mop of tousled hair that has gone white after 30 years of running around his […]

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August 10, 2026 – The Trump administration released a proposed rule today to close a “loophole” in federal food ingredient transparency, acting on a key pillar of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement—but still falling short, according to some consumer health groups. If finalized, the proposed rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration […]

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August 10, 2026 – During a markup in the Senate Agriculture Committee last week, Democrats voted against moving the 2026 Farm Bill forward, stalling the bill’s progress until the fall, when midterm elections are likely to make negotiations even more difficult. Democrats were able to block the bill’s advancement because of the absence of Senator […]

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