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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue improperly injected political campaigning into a Farmers to Families Food Box event in North Carolina, a government watchdog agency concluded Thursday, directing Perdue to reimburse the government for the costs of his participation at the event.
Six more people, including the former CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride, have been indicted in an ongoing criminal investigation of price fixing and bid rigging in the chicken industry.
A slew of legislation introduced in the last six months addresses everything from how beef is processed to how live cattle are bought and sold in the marketplace.
The United States is backing the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate California’s Proposition 12, which would ban the sale of pork from hogs raised without minimum square-feet requirements.
Syngenta Group announced the acquisition of Valagro, a leading biologics company - giving the firm a key leadership position in a market which is set to nearly double in size over the next five years.
The latest data from USDA’s Economic Research Service’s “Fruit and Tree Nut Outlook” provides a snapshot of production and prices, with tree nuts producing record-high supplies in 2020/21 and a spike in orange juice sales as COVID-19 hit the U.S.
After seeing its domestic pork production decimated by an outbreak of African Swine Fever, China is aiming to recover enough to produce 95% of its pork within its own borders.
A new study released by Mercaris, an organic commodities trading platform, suggests more land and farming operations are converting to organic production.
For the second straight year, Democrats threatened but ultimately backed down from blocking Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue from getting a fresh pot of money to make payments to farmers.
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