<p>Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.<br>—</p><p>Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/utah-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/uta</span><span class="invisible">h-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#Utah</a> <a href="/tags/therapy/" rel="tag">#Therapy</a> <a href="/tags/farmers/" rel="tag">#Farmers</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a> <a href="/tags/depression/" rel="tag">#Depression</a></p>
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<p>What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic<br>---</p><p>To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bir</span><span class="invisible">d-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/birdflu/" rel="tag">#BirdFlu</a> <a href="/tags/pandemic/" rel="tag">#Pandemic</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a></p>
<p>Regards sur les transmissions S2 Ep1 - Concordance des temps</p><p>Dans ce premier épisode, Edouard nous raconte son installation progressive en tant que maraîcher, comment il a développé et fait évoluer sa manière de produire. Il nous détaille comment le collectif a été pour lui un moteur, une source d’inspiration, jusqu’à être l’élément déclencheur d’une dynamique de transmission.</p><p><a href="https://castopod.superlarsen.fr/@regardssurlestransmissions/episodes/regards-sur-les-transmissions-s2-ep1-concordance-des-temps" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="castopod.superlarsen.fr/@regardssurlestransmissions/episodes/regards-sur-les-transmissions-s2-ep1-concordance-des-temps"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">castopod.superlarsen.fr/@regar</span><span class="invisible">dssurlestransmissions/episodes/regards-sur-les-transmissions-s2-ep1-concordance-des-temps</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/documentaire/" rel="tag">#documentaire</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/radio/" rel="tag">#radio</a> <a href="/tags/societe/" rel="tag">#societe</a> <a href="/tags/rural/" rel="tag">#rural</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a></p>
<p>A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.</p><p>Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.</p><p>But few farms have signed on.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fai</span><span class="invisible">r-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a></p>
<p>Médor n°40 · La <a href="/tags/campagne/" rel="tag">#campagne</a> s’est transformée radicalement ces dernières décennies, mais pas forcément la vision que beaucoup portent sur elle. </p><p>Pour les <a href="/tags/journalistes/" rel="tag">#journalistes</a> – souvent urbains –, traiter de la campagne revient trop souvent à focaliser sur des sujets estampillés « vert », en tête desquels l’<a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#agriculture</a>.</p><p>Le prochain numéro de Médor met de la distance avec la capitale et rebat la campagne.</p><p>Disponible dès le 4 septembre.<br>Abonnez-vous pour le recevoir chez vous : <a href="https://medor.coop/offre" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>medor.coop/offre</a></p>
<p>For Blake Gerard, a fourth-generation farmer working the flood-prone fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Ill., there was no sense in fighting nature. </p><p>“I could grow something that would grow in water,” he said. Or quit.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ill</span><span class="invisible">inois-farming-rice-soy-corn-flooding-mississippi-river?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/flood/" rel="tag">#Flood</a></p>
<p>Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive<br>---</p><p>Some farmers keep growing in flood- and drought-prone fields because subsidies soften the losses, while federal programs meant to help them change course have been underfunded and mired in bureaucracy. Under Trump, those programs may weaken further. </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/illinois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ill</span><span class="invisible">inois-farming-soy-corn-flooding-subsidies-insurance?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/flood/" rel="tag">#Flood</a> <a href="/tags/drought/" rel="tag">#Drought</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a></p>
<p>Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. helped Sofi secure an H-2A visa, promising a job on a Georgia blueberry farm.</p><p>When she arrived, she was not sent out to work in the fields like the others. She was forced to live at his house and sign a marriage license.<br><a href="https://projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">projects.propublica.org/h2a-vi</span><span class="invisible">sa-farmworkers-operation-blooming-onion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/visa/" rel="tag">#Visa</a></p>
<p>The H-2A visa program has failed to protect migrant farmworkers from wage theft, forced labor, violence and death.</p><p>Here’s what experts, lawyers and advocates think would make the program safer.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/h-2</span><span class="invisible">a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#Farming</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/immigrants/" rel="tag">#Immigrants</a> <a href="/tags/visa/" rel="tag">#Visa</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a></p>
<p>Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.</p><p>Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/h-2</span><span class="invisible">a-visa-farmworker-exploitation-regulators?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#Labor</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a> <a href="/tags/exploitation/" rel="tag">#Exploitation</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>
<p>In a <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> where hunger has become the order of the day among many vulnerable individuals and children, hope lies in the hands of young farmers who have dedicated themselves to make a change in such a community through <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#agriculture</a> by extending their hands on tools to make this happen. Let's together share the joy of having the Empty Stomachs filled and many lives transformed. Support us to buy <a href="/tags/land/" rel="tag">#land</a> and make this dream a reality. </p><p><a href="https://gofund.me/3f38fe9d0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gofund.me/3f38fe9d0</a></p><p># mutualaid<br><a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a></p>
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<p>Red Barn</p><p>I was on a mission when I captured this image of a Red Barn in Levering Michigan. The mission was to capture pictures of old barns and I had found exactly what I was looking for.<br>This barn reflects everything I was looking for in a barn, the color red, the sloped roof, the big barn doors, out on the countryside in the middle of a pasture with dark blue skies framing the building. <br><a href="https://pixels.com/featured/red-barn-bill-gallagher.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixels.com/featured/red-barn-bill-gallagher.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixels.com/featured/red-barn-b</span><span class="invisible">ill-gallagher.html</span></a><br><a href="/tags/redbarn/" rel="tag">#RedBarn</a> <a href="/tags/billgallagherphotography/" rel="tag">#BillGallagherPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/upnorth/" rel="tag">#UpNorth</a></p>
<p>Gray Barn</p><p>The Gray Barn out on Riggsville Road is iconic to me, as is Riggsville Road.<br>This structure fits into the surrounding area as well as any other farm house or out building. The acreage is large as the land is cheap.<br>Life is simple out here and you need to keep things basic. Good hardworking people live out here on Riggsville Road. </p><p><a href="https://pixels.com/featured/gray-barn-bill-gallagher.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pixels.com/featured/gray-barn-bill-gallagher.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pixels.com/featured/gray-barn-</span><span class="invisible">bill-gallagher.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/graybarn/" rel="tag">#GrayBarn</a> <a href="/tags/billgallagherphotography/" rel="tag">#BillGallagherPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/oldweatheredbarn/" rel="tag">#OldWeatheredBarn</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/northernmichigan/" rel="tag">#NorthernMichigan</a> <a href="/tags/upnorth/" rel="tag">#UpNorth</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/rural/" rel="tag">#Rural</a></p>
<p>Red Barn on Riggsville Road</p><p>Riggsville Road is a main artery in Cheboygan County connecting Cheboygan Michigan to Pellston Michigan. Its upper rural Midwestern America in all it's beauty and glory.<br>Large expanses of land dotted with farmhouses and barns scattered around the rolling hills. Hard working people live out here and a few crazies too.</p><p><a href="/tags/rebarnonriggsvilleroad/" rel="tag">#ReBarnOnRiggsvilleRoad</a> <a href="/tags/billgallagherphotography/" rel="tag">#BillGallagherPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/redbarn/" rel="tag">#RedBarn</a> <a href="/tags/northernmichigan/" rel="tag">#NorthernMichigan</a> <a href="/tags/upnorth/" rel="tag">#UpNorth</a> <a href="/tags/agriculture/" rel="tag">#Agriculture</a> <a href="/tags/farms/" rel="tag">#Farms</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/countrylife/" rel="tag">#CountryLife</a></p>
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