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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 17, 2025
USDA is awarding $31.5 million in funding to local, state, and national organizations to support programs that help participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) increase their purchase of fruits and vegetables.
The pork product is the meat that has become an American obsession, once eaten solely for breakfast, but now found wrapped around other foods, infused into cocktails 0 even made into personal care products.
Dunkin Donuts announced today that 10 percent of all eggs sourced for its breakfast sandwiches in the U.S. will be from cage-free hens by the end of next year. Additionally, Dunkin Donuts said it will source only gestation crate-free pork in the U.S. by
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., and 70 House colleagues are urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell to make sure the final Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) are based on sound nutritional science and stick within
Three House committees are demanding documents and emails from the Environmental Protection Agency on its handling of the proposed rule for re-defining the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the working group looking to reform the beef checkoff to his office Tuesday afternoon to discuss the stalled process and his own ideas for reform, which may involve setting up another new checkoff fund to generate more investments.
The first meetings between President Barack Obama and India°s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington this week seemed to help forge a bond between the two world leaders and produced a lengthy list of projects in which both countries could cooperate ° ranging from national security is
Up against the 10 percent °blend wall° which limits its market, the ethanol industry is screaming for relief. It wants its oil-industry competitors to provide consumers with more choice, allowing drivers to fill up with EPA-approved-for-all E15 (15 percent
A new study concludes there are no adverse health effects for animals that eat genetically engineered (GE) feed grains or from the products derived those animals.
The likelihood of an El Ni°o event developing over the Pacific Ocean is still up in the air, but if the weather pattern develops, there°s little chance it will provide enough rain to end one of the worst droughts in California history.
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