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The U.S. doesn’t just want to employ modern farming technology and practices to combat climate change. It wants to work with governments and the private sector around the globe to collaborate on research through a new platform to improve the way farmers and ranchers produce food and fiber while reducing carbon emissions and preserving the environment.

A new report on grocery shopping trends by FMI — The Food Industry Association, in partnership with The Hartman Group, identified how the pandemic influenced how consumers buy food and learned to enjoy eating at home once again.

A partnership between ADM, a global leader in human and animal nutrition and agricultural processing, and Japan's Spiber, could create plant-based polymers for everything from clothing to car seats.

The nation’s pork producers are asking the Department of Agriculture to appeal a ruling preventing a new regulatory regime for pork processing plants from going into effect nationwide.

U.S. organic sales topped $60 billion for the first time in 2020 and more than doubled the sales growth rate the industry experienced in 2019, the Organic Trade Association said in a report released Tuesday.

The U.S. wing of JBS, one of the so-called “big four” beef packers has opted to part ways with the nation’s largest beef industry trade association.

Claxton Poultry Farms of Georgia has been indicted on charges of taking part in “a nationwide conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chicken products” from 2012 through 2019, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

A recent closed-door meeting of beef producers may have yielded the rarest of all things in the industry: unity.

Rising crop prices and an economy emerging from the doldrums of the COVID-19 pandemic are creating greater demand for fertilizer, tightening supply chains and boosting input prices considerably, industry officials and observers say.

The Department of Agriculture is aiming to improve urban food production by providing $2 million to local governments who host pilot projects focusing on composting and reducing food waste.