This week on Eating Matters, host Kim Kessler and guest co-host Talia Ralph are on the line with Anurag Varma, attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP who has been an instrumental part of what is considered the biggest discrimination case in agricultural history, Pigford v. Glickman. In...

In 1997 a class action lawsuit was filed against the US Department of Agriculture. Tune in to learn why the federal agency was sued. By Janelle A. Hobson

Margot Brooks started her farming career as a cheesemaker at Consider Bardwell Farm in West Pawlet, Vermont and then decided to start her own operation, Sugar House Creamery - an old Adirondack dairy farm that her and partner Alex Eaton have turned into a farmstead creamery. On this week's episode...

Fany Gerson of La Newyorkina lost everything at her Red Hook, Brooklyn production kitchen during Hurricane Sandy. Tune into this special segment to hear Erin Fairbanks catch up with Fany, and see how she's been recuperating her business since the storm. How have crowdsourcing outlets like Kickstarter helped Fany connect...

Buster Creek Farm owns 160 acres but farm about 800 now, 100% Angus/Hereford beef cattle. They mainly lease and restore busted dairy farms for hay, clover, etc. and normally run a herd of about 200, soon to be twice that. Just like Kinderhook and Grazin' Angus, they're in the fairly...

Anastasia is back on Greenhorn Radio! Anastasia started her career as a seasonal agricultural worker at the age of 17 when a series of fateful events led her to the blueberry barrens of Downeast Maine. She raked berries every year for the next 8 years, and also did some apple...

Jessie Schmidt is a coordinator for the UVM Extension New Farmer Project and the Vermont Women's Ag Network. The Vermont New Farmer Project is a collaborative of organizations around Vermont that serves new farmers. The project aims to streamline access to resources and services that shorten the timeline between start-up...

On this week's episode of Flash Talks Cash, JoAnn "Flash" Fleming and Andrew Newman are talking about alternative forms of lending and receiving loans. Flash goes over the microlending system created by Muhammad Yunus, a form of non-interest loan that provides small amounts of money to impoverished people looking to...

This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is talking with Mircha King of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives about the Pigford case- a class action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination on the part of the USDA concerning the distribution of loans and credits. Tune in to hear Mircha and Erin...

This episode of Flash Talks Cash is all about student loan debt. Tune in to hear JoAnn "Flash" Fleming and Andrew Newman talk about the proposed Student Loan Forgiveness Act, which would cap payment amounts at 10 percent of a borrower's discretionary income, and can provide forgiveness after 10 years...