Who we are.

Save US Farms is an independent news publication covering the land, water, labor, and policy forces reshaping American agriculture. We launched in 2026 because the stories that matter most to family farmers, young growers, and farmworkers rarely get the coverage they deserve — and because the corporate consolidation and extractive capital quietly devouring the American countryside is one of the most consequential and underreported stories of our time.

Why we exist

America's food system is in crisis, and the causes are structural: a handful of agribusiness conglomerates controlling seed, processing, and retail; private equity buying up farmland and squeezing out generational owners; trade and subsidy policy written by lobbyists instead of growers; a warming climate hitting already-thin margins. These forces don't get the sustained coverage they need from outlets optimized for clicks or constrained by advertiser relationships. We cover them because someone has to — and because the family farmers, young growers, and farmworkers at the center of this story deserve accurate, credible journalism on their side.

What we cover

Our six coverage pillars:

1. Land and ownership — farmland consolidation, REIT and private-equity acquisitions, land access for young and beginning farmers, eminent domain, and the shrinking share of farms owned by the people who work them.
2. Corporate consolidation — agribusiness mergers and market concentration in seed, fertilizer, processing, and retail; antitrust enforcement (or the lack of it); contract farming practices and the leverage large integrators hold over independent producers.
3. Water and climate — aquifer depletion, irrigation policy, drought and flood risk, USDA conservation programs, and the long-term climate pressures reshaping what can be grown and where.
4. Farmworker rights — wages, housing, health and safety, H-2A visa abuses, labor organizing, and the people whose work feeds the country and whose stories are rarely on the front page.
5. Policy and markets — the Farm Bill, crop insurance, commodity price swings, trade agreements, USDA programs, and the way Washington's choices land on actual farms.
6. Food access and justice — who can afford to eat what gets grown; rural food deserts; the connection between farm economics and what ends up on the table; and the communities bearing the environmental costs of industrial agriculture.

Our voice

We are credible, direct, and unambiguously on the side of family farms, young growers, and farmworkers — not because we've abandoned objectivity, but because we follow facts that consistently point in the same direction. We believe climate change is real and is damaging American agriculture right now. We believe corporate consolidation has gone too far. We don't pretend those are controversial positions; they are empirically supported ones. Our coverage is reported, sourced, and verifiable, and we correct our errors publicly.

Masthead

Editor and publisher: Jesse Tamburino. All editorial decisions, sourcing standards, and corrections are the responsibility of the editor.

Staff bylines appear on reported pieces. Wire-style updates and desk aggregations run under "Save US Farms Desk." Tip-driven and investigative work carries an individual byline.

How the newsroom works

Save US Farms is a small, independent newsroom. Our editorial process uses a range of research tools — including AI-powered software — to scan public sources, extract key details from primary documents, and triage incoming tips and reports. Every published article is reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by the editor before it appears on the site, and every factual claim must trace to a primary source the reader can verify.

We disclose our tools because readers deserve transparency. Software assists research and drafting; it does not replace sourcing, editorial judgment, or accountability. If a published article contains a factual error, that is the editor's responsibility — full stop.

How we're funded

Save US Farms is independently owned and reader-supported. Revenue comes from:

• Display advertising served programmatically through Google AdSense and similar networks. We do not approve individual creatives.
• Affiliate commissions from Amazon and similar programs on books, tools, seeds, and related products. All such links are flagged with rel="sponsored nofollow" and disclosed on the disclosure page.

No editorial decision has ever been or will ever be influenced by any commercial relationship. We do not run gambling, partisan-political, or predatory-financial advertising. We do not accept payment for coverage, ever.

Ownership and corporate structure

Save US Farms is owned and operated by Jesse Tamburino as a sole proprietor under United States jurisdiction. We have no parent company, no investors, no political donors, and no government funding of any kind.

Contact

News tips and general inquiries: contact@saveusfarms.com. Takedown and legal notices: takedown@saveusfarms.com. Full contact options on the contact page.