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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 – The House Appropriations Committee advanced a fiscal 2018 funding bill for the Agriculture Department that directs the agency to ensure the safety of imported chicken from China before allowing shipments to begin.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 – A USDA report on Wednesday boosted corn and soybean harvest projections while cutting anticipated returns for the nation’s wheat crop.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - States are leaving the U.S. minimum wage rate in the dust as they lift their own wage floors, lock in further hikes across the next several years and hit a lot of farm and ranch operating budgets in the process.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - More data are needed on how animal antibiotics are used and on the efficacy of alternatives in order to accelerate the use of antibiotic-free options, says a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 - Wheat acreage in the U.S. is at its lowest level in more than 100 years and that’s bad news for the country’s millers and bakers who depend on stable supplies of the grain, according to a new report from Rabobank.
UTAH, July 12, 2-17 - Utah’s ag-gag law violates the First Amendment, a federal judge has determined, killing a 2012 statute designed to prevent animal welfare activists from going undercover to film operations of animal production facilities.
CHINA, July 12, 2017 - Purple rice developed by Chinese scientists. A new genetic engineering technique developed by Chinese scientists has been used to develop purple rice packed with antioxidant-boosting pigments called anthocyanins.
NEW HAMPSHIRE, July 12, 2017 - The French food group Danone has agreed to sell Stonyfield Farm, its U.S.-based dairy business, to Lactalis, the world’s largest dairy products group, for $875 million.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2107 - Global food commodity prices rose in June, led by wheat and meat prices, according to the FAO Food Price Index compiled by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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