Grow Local. Process Local. Buy Local. Eat Local.
The best way to help shorten the food chain right away is to support local. Here is a list of resources to buy and eat local.
Western Montana Growers Coop
Local Farmers Markets
https://agr.mt.gov/Farmers-Markets
Local Meat Processing Companies
Annual Montana Food Show
Made in Montana
AERO
NCAT
https://farmtocafeteria.ncat.org/producers/
Montana Department of Agriculture
https://agr.mt.gov/SourceLocal
MFBN Montana Food Bank Network
Cheap Food Policy
MT Farmers Union secures funds to start cooperative mobile slaughtering unit & first college curriculum
The Economics of Food and Corporate Consolidation
Homegrown: How small food processors are building a more resilient Montana food system.
3 states produced 76 percent of U.S. veggies
Grain Reserves
Concentration in Agricultural Production
Corporate Control in Agriculture
Food and Power: Addressing Monopolization in America’s Food System
Trump/Daines Fail to Deliver on China Beef Deal for Montana
11 American Companies That Are No Longer American
Tyson Foods Helped Create the Meat Crisis It Warns Against
‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
It’s not just what U.S. farmland is foreign-held, it’s what the intentions are
Cheap Food Policy: Fact or Rhetoric?
The True Cost of Cheap Food
Food Security in the Media
Our Food Supply Chain is Broken, Walter Schweitzer; Daily Interlake
Family Farms Struggles Behind Country-of-Origin Labeling: Montana Right Now
Praise for farm aid, criticism for meatpackers: Under secretary’s visit to Great Falls a mixed bag: USDA Today/Great Falls Tribune
Montana Farmers Union Donates Pork to Feed Montanans: Northern Ag Network
MFU’s Schweitzer Talks Cattle Markets – Montana Talks with Aaron Flint