Just three companies process roughly half of all turkeys and under 1,000 turkey farms raise 70% of all birds in the U.S. Consolidation increases the risk of price-fixing and supply chain disruptions, both of which have come to roost in the turkey industry. www.foodandpower.net/latest/turke...

At Food and Power, @clairek.bsky.social discusses what Mamdani can learn from past and present public grocery projects.

A few cities & small towns opened city-owned grocery stores over the past decade. Several failed because, just like a small private grocery store, they couldn't get good pricing. Part of this problem can be solved with scale, but RPA enforcement would also level the playing field - lessons for NYC!

Thanks to @marketplace.org for covering this big change to the Farm Bill!

Further, just as the OBBB added work requirements for SNAP recipients, it eased requirements that farmers prove they're actively engaged in farming in order to receive federal farm subsidies and made it easier for larger farms to receive more subsidies www.foodandpower.net/latest/obbb-...

This has massive implications for feeding low-income families and for hundreds of smaller sustainable ag programs that the OBBB left behind. @nsac-sustainableag.bsky.social sustainableagriculture.net/blog/release...

Excited to collaborate for the first time with Successful Farming, thanks to @thefern.org !

Extremely grateful for the editors at FERN who made this opportunity possible! (photo credit to James Beard Foundation/Galdones Photography)