Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, outbreaks and recalls for the month of August, 2018:
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
CBS News: More Americans struggling to buy food, especially those with kids
In Korea (south) the U.S. Air Force’s 51st Fighter Wing has started a Food First! program to help with its Drug Demand Reduction operations. It’s partly based on studies that show that so-called health food supplements don’t actually work in people who are considered healthy: “The program highlights the importance of good nutrition, hydration, rest and recovery, and physical activity in the development and maintenance of good health as opposed to relying on supplements such as multivitamins and protein shakes.”-Lisa Roof, 51st MDG Health Promotion Coordinator
NationalPublicRadio: Your Kitchen Spices Can Harbor Salmonella
What Sparked An E. Coli Outbreak In Lettuce?
Healthline: Is Pork the New Chicken When It Comes to Drug-Resistant Salmonella?
CNN: Avoid these foods due to outbreaks and recalls
AgWeb: Farm Real Estate Value Averaging $3140/Acre for 2018
Local farm industry surging, saving bankrupt mom-n-pop stores?
Alabama woman hospitalized sues Pepperidge Farms-Goldfish crackers over salmonella
6 current food-borne illness outbreaks
Video of members of the 117th Air Refueling Wing, Air National Guard, delivering donated food to a homeless shelter:
ALASKA: “Alaska Berries is the only certified Alaska Grown winery in the state.”
Kenai River closing to sockeye salmon fishing
A Dwindling Catch Has Alaskans Uneasy
Total Salmon Catch Tops 80 Million Fish
ARKANSAS: farmers facing big crop losses from heavy rains
New “gift” funded rice research center to open
C&H’s owners propose new hog operation near Arkansas River
Tiny Worms Bug Arkansas’s Soybean Farmers
ARIZONA: 500 Arizona farmers Could Upend Drought Plan for all of the southwest U.S.
Western Growers opposes Arizona energy initiative
Arizona may have to cut back on water use in 2020
Farmers need fast answers on cause of E. coli in romaine lettuce
CALIFORNIA: Kings Fish House ‘temporarily’ shutting down its restaurant in Carlsbad, 86 jobs gone by October. Oxnard Lemon Company issued a layoff WARN for its operations in Oxnard, 155 jobs gone right after Halloween!
Farmers Protest California Water Plan Aimed to Save Salmon
New Groundwater Law Means Big Changes
Southeast U.S. cotton farmers shown how Californians do it
Toxic pesticides found at most illegal California pot farms
Marijuana farms Destroyed By Wildfires
COLORADO: Salmonella Linked to Arapahoe County Fair/4-H event
Cargill Recalls 25000 Pounds of potentially E. coli – tainted Ground Beef
USAA reports 8000 claims from hailstorm
Large hail kills several animals and injures 14 people
CONNECTICUT: Edible Arrangements issued a WARN, 125 jobs in Wallingford gone right after Xmas!
Farm Aid concert scheduled to help save dairy farmers
Award winning dairy farm uses robots
One of the Country’s Oldest Tobacco Farms is Switching to Booze
DELAWARE: Delaware Gets Disaster Designation by Agriculture Officials
West Nile Virus confirmed in two Delaware horses
FLORIDA: Publix recalls ground beef products sold in Florida for possible E. coli
20th annual Southern Peanut Growers Conference reports 80% of the world’s human population will live in urban areas by 2040, so who will grow the food?
Food fight divides growers in Florida and West Coast
Florida’s red tide takes a mounting toll. And it’s not just on the fish.
Animal sacrifices made on illegal slaughter farm
Animal protection groups proved that 145 Florida farms were abusing animals, resulting in shutdown of those farms.
The Top 7 Challenges for Small Farms in Florida
GEORGIA: Mayfield Dairy Farms conducting final shutdown of their ops in Braselton, 108 jobs gone starting mid-September! The dairy actually began shutting down operations in 2011, due to the not-so-recovered economy.
Georgia farms ‘rock solid’ despite weather, trade war
Former U.S. President, and peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter shuns riches and lives modestly in his hometown
HAWAII: ‘Little Buggers’ Are Taking A Big Bite Out Of Hawaii’s Macadamia Crop
Repeated natural disasters pummel Hawaii’s farms
Official FEMA video explaining how it helps prep for natural disasters:
IDAHO: man sickened by E. coli sues Idaho distributor
‘Donated’ Sandpoint orchard is site of new University of Idaho organic center
Boise using goats as organic lawnmowers?
ILLINOIS: Aramark lost its food service contract with University of Chicago Ingalls Memorial Hospital and UoC Medical Center, 369 jobs gone right after Halloween! Shop ‘n Save Warehouse Foods issued a WARN for its Collinsville location, 60 jobs gone by the end of September.
Did Illinois Farmers lie to the USDA on Their August Surveys?
In 2018, grain farms will barely break even
INDIANA: Herd of bison escape from Indiana farm
‘Powered by Poo’: How One of the World’s Biggest Dairies Finds Energy in the Unlikeliest of Places
IOWA: US Foods issued a shutdown WARN for its Sioux City location, 30 jobs gone by September.
Molly Tibbetts murder case reveals secret of Iowa farms; reliance on illegal immigrants
It’s Harder to Bring Home the Bacon
New U.S.-Mexico trade deal could save Iowa farmers
KANSAS: Millions on the table: The potential of industrial hemp in Kansas
Building the Mecca of Heritage Poultry in Kansas
KENTUCKY: A ham just sold for $2.8 million in Kentucky
In Kentucky, Farmers Find Hemp May Be More Profitable Than Tobacco
MAINE: Shortage of farmhands causes farmers to lose crops
Missouri pork farmers breathe new life into an old Maine dairy farm
Maine dairy farm embraces technology
man who overdosed sues salmon farm for failing to call 9-1-1
MARYLAND: County Seeks to Block Oyster Farm Growth
MASSACHUSETTS: dairy farm determined to stay viable
How crops, trees are weathering the rain
Northboro seeks halt to composting at Santo Anza’s farm
MICHIGAN: Kenco issued a shutdown WARN for its Country Market store in Dexter, 49 jobs gone by November.
farmer’s controlled burn smolders underground weeks later
soybean farmer worried about Chinese tariff hikes
$510 million in dairy facilities coming to mid-Michigan
MINNESOTA: Farmers’ feelings on tariffs mixed
Big Minnesota pork producer ‘surprised’ by immigration raids
Minnesota farmers trying to save Gulf of Mexico shrimpers
MISSISSIPPI: chicken farmers demand less government regulation
soybean farmers blame racism for faulty seeds
MISSOURI: 34 Sickened in Salmonella Outbreak
Drought causes Farmers Market to close
Drought takes toll on crops, cattle
Metro farmers begging state parks for emergency drought help
NEBRASKA: ICE raid targeting employers and more than 100 workers rocks a small Nebraska town
Late season hail wipes out some crops in central Nebraska
Who pays to maintain your irrigation system?
After farming Nebraska for 150 years one farm family fled the state due to ever increasing taxation.
NEVADA: Local food advocates work to bring more urban farms to Northern Nevada
Is the Farming Future of Las Vegas Indoors?
1st Year of Nevada Marijuana Sales Smokes Expectations
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Federal taxpayers give 15 New Hampshire farm ops $2.8-million USD
Upper Valley Berry Farmers on High Alert for Dreaded Fruit Fly
Couple Running ‘Animal Rescue’ Facing 44 Animal Cruelty Charges
NEW JERSEY: Switzerland based Nestlé eliminating 175 jobs in Kearny by October!
210-acre farm one step closer to growing medical ganja
NEW MEXICO: After 13 years in Las Cruces, Toucan Market shutting down, the owners blame crashing sales caused by new competitors.
Groundwater Diversion Plan Rejected as ‘Water Speculation’
Chinese tariffs spur concern for pecan growers
NEW YORK: Bankrupt, Amherst based Tops Friendly Markets announced it is shutting down at least ten grocery stores due to them not making enough money to pay the rent, 492 jobs lost right after Thanksgiving (according to official WARN)! The grocery chain is reported to have $720-million USD of debt. In Rochester, Johnny’s Irish Pub shutting down in September after 21 years, so the owner can ‘move on’. Without warning British empire based Compass Group-Chartwells lost its food service contract with College of Mount Saint Vincent, 43 jobs suddenly gone.
NORTH CAROLINA: Nuisance lawsuits now threaten all farmers
NORTH DAKOTA: North Dakota farmers struggle with toxic byproduct of the oil industry boom
The case of the mystery photographers caught trespassing in farm fields: Big Brother state Ag officials admit their employees have been spying on farmers!
Aggressive Weed Found in North Dakota for the First Time
OHIO: The problem of people without food is so bad that the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and the Defense Supply Center Columbus is working on its ninth year supporting the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and that’s only to fight the food crisis affecting 183-thousand-750 children and 89-thousand-250 old people just in the Columbus area! But wait, don’t think this is a totally taxpayer funded effort, according to official Department of Defense sources the employees who work the ‘Feds Feed Families’ (FFF) operation are doing so voluntarily. In Hamilton, Andy’s Restaurant shutdown after 62 years. Riesbeck’s Food Market shutdown its Wintersville location, saying the store is so old it’s not worth it to upgrade it or to continue paying rent on it, 60 jobs gone.
agri-tourism immunity law extends to many farm-based activities
OKLAHOMA: USAF Jet Crashes Into A Farm
Four counties designated as primary natural disaster areas
Thousands of chickens Found Dead, Beaten, Gassed
OREGON: Court rules that dairy farm can continue its troubled wastewater ops
Pot Growers Now Must Notify state government About Harvests
PENNSYLVANIA: farmers poised to bring back hemp, once a state staple
Oversupply threatens dairy industry
‘Monsoon’ delays projects, swells peaches
3 men accused of sexually abusing farm animals
PUERTO RICO: how hurricane Maria actually helped small farms
yet, Coffee, banana and orange farmers say they “lost everything”
Rescued dogs taken from Puerto Rico to Virginia
RHODE ISLAND: Rhode Island Sued Over Truck Tolls
SOUTH CAROLINA: ‘Poor man’s meat’ may find home on South Carolina farms
As first crop of SC hemp nears harvest, scores of farmers line up
Neighbors want to stop mega-farms from guzzling water.
Thousands of soybean farmers face big financial losses
SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota kids can legally stay home at any age, and for farmers, it’s better that way
Pheasant counts up for 2018, still below long-term average
TENNESSEE: Wheat farmers need to ‘break mold’ for weed control
Rescued farm animals finally at home
The good, bad, and ugly of farming with precision technologies
Legal Hemp Crops Pose Problems For Law Enforcement
TEXAS: farmers see new source of green in legal hemp
Texas agriculture touted as innovative, diverse
rice farmers experiencing bumper 2018
Trade “aid” leaves behind wounded corn farmers
West Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton farms
UTAH: Thieves target small family farm, steal unusual items
Growing Population Could Threaten Cherry Production
farmers share fruits of their labor with wildfire evacuees
Farmers band together to battle fire
Algae-related toxin found in Jordan River
Frequent dog attacks imperil livestock
VIRGINIA: brewery, farm help each other out
farmers, vintners lament record-breaking rain
peanuts bear heavy thrips damage, other challenges
Poultry vs. tourism comment ‘a slap in the face’
WASHINGTON: production looking good for Washington wheat despite uncertain markets
‘Crops go unharvested and animals go uncared for.’
The burden of making Washington king of the cherry
Garbage from booming marijuana industry clogs gutters
Washington DC: New Native American farm fund to distribute $266 million
E. coli strain from retail poultry may cause urinary tract infections
Trump is giving farmers a $6 billion bailout
August USDA Reports Confirm Too Much of Everything
“A whopping 15.6 million American households experienced at least some food insecurity…”
WEST VIRGINIA: Kroger shutting down its grocery store in Smithers, 59 jobs gone in October due to “low financial returns”.
Farming Project Doesn’t Go as Planned
Taxpayer funded Program pays Farmers to Conserve Flood-Prone Land
Schools and farmers warn about new foreign-owned stone wool factory
WISCONSIN: With only one day’s official WARN warning, PF Chang’s shutdown its Middleton restaurant, 36 jobs suddenly gone.
More than 4% of Wisconsin Dairy Farms Call It Quits in 2018—So Far
New taxpayer funded Crop Insurance Program May Benefit Dairy Farmers
WYOMING: Where’s The Beef? Wyoming Ranchers Bet On Blockchain
U.S. FOOD CRISIS, July 2018: “THE RISE OF BIG BOX STORES”