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Changes to the school lunch program mandated by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) are leaving school lunch programs across the country hungry for money, a new study says.

A new study from Consumer Reports (CR), the organization known for investigating and rating all sorts of consumer goods from cars to countertops, found high levels of what they deemed ÐdangerousÐ strains of bacteria in American ground beef. But federal officials and t

One of the most distinguished scientists in the public policy sphere is warning that €the increasing vilification of GM foods as a marketing tool by the organic food industry€ may be €the most counterproductive development€ in the effort to increase food production to meet the

The owners of United Suppliers, Inc. and members of Land O'Lakes, Inc. overwhelmingly approved the merger of United Suppliers with Land O'Lakes' crop inputs business.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the government will use Pevery available resourceP to combat the outbreak of wildfires plaguing the American West. And he said USDA and the U.S. Forest Service is in mourning for three Forest Service firefighters killed Wednesday while bat

The majority of farmers and ranchers now have computer and Internet access, and the number of connected producers continues to grow.

The Food and Drug Administration's plan to require reporting on animal antibiotic sales species by species is running into strong industry opposition. Drug makers now only report total sales for individual drugs. Breaking the sales data down by cattle, hogs, chickens and turke

The crop insurance system is hugely important for not only farmers, but also to rural communities and the national economy as a whole.

A group of self-proclaimed Moms for GMOs has released a letter they sent to celebrity advocates including Gwyneth Paltrow and Sarah Michelle Geller urging the actresses to rethink their support for mandatory labeling of products made with genetically modified organisms (GMO)