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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, August 26, 2024
Gaps in the Food and Drug Administration’s authority and a lack of risk management planning slowed the federal government and industry’s ability to bounce back from the 2022 infant formula shortage, according to a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine.
Hormel Foods, a 132-year-old Fortune 500 company, realized that the share of hungry people in its home county hadn’t budged in a decade despite community food programs. So it decided to do something.
The average dairy herd has grown by about 150% over the past two decades, according to a study by USDA’s Economic Research Service that also confirms the growing significance of Texas and Idaho in dairy production.
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed a framework that would prevent some poultry products contaminated with certain salmonella levels from entering the market, and make those items subject to recall.
AGCO has agreed to sell most of its grain and protein business for $700 million to American Industrial Partners, an industrials investor worth $16 billion, in an all-cash transaction.
Kroger and Albertsons have agreed to delay their proposed merger until after a Colorado judge rules on the state’s request to permanently block it, eliminating the need for a preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for Aug. 12.
About one in eleven people globally faced hunger last year, demonstrating the world is falling short of its Zero Hunger by 2030 ambitions, according to a recent report by United Nations agencies.