Podcasts about family farm defenders

There are a lot of things that attract young farmers into the industry. Heritage, new technology, philosophy on food and food production. All those things have kept Anthony Panke engaged. He's the vice president of Family Farm Defenders, an organization that focuses on food sovereignty and keeping small farms viable. Panke grew up on a farm in Fond du Lac County, but today he's teaching at a university in San Francisco. Why does he still come "home" and focus on farm policy? He explains to Pam Jahnke. Weather gives us a break for the weekend, but there's moisture on the way. Stu Muck explains. Wisconsin's detected another case of high pathogen avian influenza in Barron County. Dr. Darlene Konkel, WI State Veterinarian, explains how they monitor the area and update livestock owners. Sen. Joan Ballweg is cleaning out her office at the state capitol. Ballweg, who's been a part of the state legislature since 2004, is leaving behind quite the "to do" list for the next session. She shares that list with Pam Jahnke. The holiday season can be a wonderful chance to reunite with friends and family. It can also be incredibly lonely and sad for many people. Amber Miller, Associate State Director of Outreach at AARP of Wisconsin shares resources available to help cope with the loneliness and sadness. All free courtesy of AARP. Paid for by AARP of Wisconsin.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heritage, innovation, and a passion for food production are just a few things pulling young farmers into agriculture today. For Anthony Panke, it’s all of the above—and more. As Vice President of Family Farm Defenders, he’s on a mission to keep small farms thriving while promoting food sovereignty. Though he teaches in San Francisco, Anthony’s roots run deep in his family’s Wisconsin farm. So what keeps him coming “home” to focus on farm policy? He shares his story with Pam Jahnke.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Get ready for a thrilling episode as we take you to Berlin for the Schnippeldisko, also known as the Disco Soup! Hosted by the Slow Food Youth Network, this event rescues food from going to waste and turns it into delicious soups and meals. Join me as we chat with special guests at the party, and learn how the food collected will be served the next day at the Wir Haben Es Satt demonstration (which took place on January 21st) - a call for a more sustainable agriculture. Together, we'll also discuss the impact of food policies on our local and global food systems, and how European policies affect the Global South.  Host & production: Valentina Gritti Guests: Tyler Short, coordinator of the Youth constituency for La Via Campesina at The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism for relations with the United Nations Committee on World Food Security. He is also a farmer in Kentucky and board member of Family Farm Defenders; Edward Mukiibi, president of Slow Food International and executive director of Slow Food Uganda; Chengeto Sandra Muzira, young farmer and activist fighting for small farmer rights in Zimbabwe; Adèle Garret, agroecology master's student and activist for the Berlin Slow Food Youth Network. Special thanks to the Slow Food Youth network in Berlin. Save the date: April 29th is World Disco Soup Day! Keep an eye on the @slowfoodyouthnetwork social media to learn how to join.  

There's a crisis in the dairy industry  – shrinking family farms, growing corporate consolidation, and low milk prices. And while the new “fair trade dairy” label depicts rolling green hills and picturesque red barns – that imagery is nothing more than a feel good marketing tactic.  In this episode, we hear how  Jim Goodman – one of the hundreds of dairy farmers impacted by the dairy crisis – struggled to keep his family farm afloat and compete with the big dairy companies. Jim talks about how generations of failed farm policy motivated his current work with the National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity project, an effort dedicated to mandating fair pricing and building “a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.” Topics covered include: Corporate consolidation in the dairy industry and the explosion of mega dairies that are squeezing small dairy farmers out of business. The “get big or get out” approach to U.S. farm policy and how it shaped the current state of the dairy industry in the U.S. Organic dairy was originally a solution to match farmers with markets that would pay fairly for milk--what's changed since the 1990s.  Family Farm Defenders' idea of domestic fair trade encompassing “worker rights, food sovereignty, and global justice.” Behind the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)'s big promises for dairy farmers. National Family Farm Coalition's Disparity to Parity project and their vision for fair pricing and “a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system.” The long history of global opposition to free trade deals and the commodification of food. How the new “fair trade dairy” label is just another marketing scheme.   Resources National Family Farm Coalition: https://nffc.net/ (https://nffc.net/) Disparity to Parity: https://disparitytoparity.org/ (https://disparitytoparity.org/) Family Farm Defenders: https://familyfarmers.org/ (https://familyfarmers.org/) Bringing Fair Trade Home to the U.S., written by John Peck: ​​https://familyfarmers.org/?page_id=653 (https://familyfarmers.org/?page_id=653)

The World Economic Forum and Gates Foundation are convening a food summit through the United Nations on September 23. Global farmer, peasant and fishing coalitions have called a boycott of the summit for its pro-corporate agenda, refusal to include the human right to food and exclusion of the intergovernmental body, the Committee on World Food Security, that has created an inclusive and democratized international structure. Clearing the FOG speaks with Patti Naylor, a family farmer in Iowa who works on agroecology and food sovereignty. She is on the board of Family Farm Defenders and a member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance. Naylor describes the failures of the current global food system, how it is unprepared for the crises we are experiencing and that will occur and why it is headed in a dangerous direction. She talks about the global fight to change the food system to one that is flexible enough to respond to crises and that protects and restores the environment. For more information, visit PopularResistance.org.

Jim Goodman ran Northwood Farm, an organic dairy in Wonewoc, Wisconsin for 40 years. Currently, he serves as a board member of Midwest Environmental Advocates, the Family Farm Defenders and is the President of the National Family Farm Coalition.

Today on Sojourner Truth: An in-depth look at the crisis facing the environment, focusing on deforestation and climate change. We discuss false solution to the climate crisis and the upcoming North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence. Our guests are Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, Karen Pickett, Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, and John E. Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders.

Today on Sojourner Truth: An in-depth look at the crisis facing the environment, focusing on deforestation and climate change. We discuss false solution to the climate crisis and the upcoming North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence. Our guests are Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, Karen Pickett, Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, and John E. Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders.

Today on Sojourner Truth: An in-depth look at the crisis facing the environment, focusing on deforestation and climate change. We discuss false solution to the climate crisis and the upcoming North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence. Our guests are Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, Karen Pickett, Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, and John E. Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders.

Today on Sojourner Truth: An in-depth look at the crisis facing the environment, focusing on deforestation and climate change. We discuss false solution to the climate crisis and the upcoming North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence. Our guests are Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, Karen Pickett, Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, and John E. Peck, Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders.

Five candidates are running to become Madison's next mayor. Hear from each of the candidates themselves on their vision for Madison's future. They will be asked about issues important to Madison residents, ranging from transportation, housing, safety, environment, criminal justice, immigration, and others. Madison Mayoral Candidates are: Maurice Cheeks, Nick Hart, Satya Rhodes-Conway, Raj Shukla, and Paul Soglin Co-sponsors: Wisconsin Revolution, Dane County, ACLU People Power -Dane County, Affordable Housing Action Alliance, Family Farm Defenders, First Unitarian Society Social Justice Ministry, Indivisible Madison, The Peregrine Forum, Madison Area Bus Advocates, Madison Bikes, Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, Wisconsin Network for Peace Justice & Sustainability, and 350 Madison Climate Action Team

John Peck is Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders, which supports sustainable agriculture, farm worker rights, animal welfare, consumer safety, fair trade, & food sovereignty. In addition, John teaches Economics "against the text" and also Environmental Studies at Madison College, runs a farm, does poetry, and thinks deeply.Past/current religious/spiritual influences: Catholic Worker, Pagan, Unitarian Universalist

Guest Jim Goodman, organic dairy farmer, member of Family Farm Defenders, and the Organic Consumers Association defines food security, food sovereignty, and discusses how the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership benefits global corporations, not family farmers.Trans Pacific Partnership Protest

October 16 was World Food Day. Decades of consolidation of agriculture into large industrial farms and the drive for ever greater profits is destroying family farms, the environment and climate, our health and food safety. Vandana Shiva writes, "“For the planet and people, the costs have been tragically high. 75 per cent of the earth’s biodiversity, soils, water have been destroyed, the climate has been destabilised, farmers have been uprooted, and instead of nourishing us, industrial food has become the biggest cause of disease and ill health.” We speak with Jim Goodman, an organic dairy farmer who started Family Farm Defenders, about the what smaller farms are doing to protect their futures and the integrity of the food system. Then we speak with Diana Reeves, founder and executive director of GMO Free USA, about the growing movement to label foods that contain GMOs and her work to build sustainable and healthy food systems. For more information, visit www.ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.

Guest John Peck, Ph.D., Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders discusses farmers rights, food security, food sovereignty, and the effects of global free vs. fair food trade policies on food labels, food safety, economics and human rightsFamily Farm Defenders

Joel Greeno: He is the President of the American Raw Milk Producers Pricing Association (ARMPPA) and Vice-President of Family Farm Defenders talks about Collective Bargaining Rights and how this will impact consumers.

Joel Greeno, President, American Raw Milk Producers Pricing Association and VP, Family Farm Defenders talks about the key politicians that will impact this industry.

Silas Bernardoni is a co-operator of Roller Coaster Farm and an operations consultant specializing in the development and implementation of organizational strategies for organizations looking to transition out of a start-up mentality toward operations. He is also an advocate for family farming, sustainable agricultural practices, heritage genetics, preserving historic agricultural methodologies, empowering societies through the use of technology, improving the quality and accessibility of education throughout the world, and community scale renewable energy technologies. Roller Coaster Farm is a family-owned-and-operated 400 acre farm located in the rolling hills of southwest Wisconsin’s beautiful Driftless Area. The Bernardoni family has continually raised animals on the farm for over 30 years and is currently being operated by multiple generations of the family. Roller Coaster Farm raises grass fed, grass finished Highland beef and Katahdin lambs as well as pastured Tamworth pork. Roller Coaster Farm is firmly committed to the utilization of heritage breeds and natural farming methods that promote the health of their animals, their land, and their consumers. Silas has worked extensively with Paraguay Educa, a non-profit organization implementing a One Laptop Per Chid-themed project in Paraguay, to bring access to quality education to all Paraguayan children through the utilization of technology. His contributions to the organization consisted of the development of an organizational structure and operational strategy designed to maintain Paraguay Educa’s cutting edge deployment methodologies while the organization expanded country-wide. Family Farm Defenders: familyfarmers.org EatWild.com: eatwild.com GrassWorks: grassworks.org One Laptop Per Child: laptop.org Paraguay Educa: paraguayeduca.org

Bob is the director of Food for Maine’s Future and a family farmer living in Sedgwick, Maine. He serves on the boards of the National Family Farm Coalition and Family Farm Defenders. As an activist and farmer living near East Penobscot Bay, Bob identifies with peasant and indigenous people worldwide who struggle to maintain access to land on which to grow their food. In his food sovereignty advocacy he has initiated a seedsaving campaign and writes frequently on the need to oppose the patenting of seeds and other life forms. He spends much of his time these days trying to stop state and federal agencies from shutting down farms in his community. This episode is sponsored by Hearst Ranch. “Rural communities have been feeding themselves for a long time and offering sales to neighbors and markets. . . and that is an important part of the local economy.” –Bob St. Peter on Greenhorn Radio

Tony Schultz of Stoney Acres Farm CSA was a fiery speaker at the 3/12/11 Farmer/Union Demonstration in Madison, WI. He's active with the Land Stewardship Project and Family Farm Defenders.