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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, March 06, 2025
If you think hiring good employees for food and agricultural jobs is difficult now, the data doesn’t indicate it’s going to improve anytime soon. Understanding generational differences in today's labor makeup will help ag companies weather the tight labor market.
The Department of Agriculture has announced an additional $9.6 million in grants and loans as part of what it said is a comprehensive approach to increase meat processing capacity, farm income and consumer choice, and create good-paying jobs.
USDA will begin accepting applications for $215 million in grants and technical assistance meant to expand the nation’s meat and poultry processing capacity.
Recent attention to the country’s meatpacking plants has illustrated that when the four dominant companies face disruptions to processing, smaller, independent operations don’t have adequate capacity to pick up the slack.
President Joe Biden is once again taking aim at the nation’s largest meat and poultry processors, vowing to boost competition for America’s farmers and ranchers and reduce prices for consumers.
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