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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, November 29, 2024
To kick off this year’s National Food Policy Conference by the Consumer Federation of America, Jim Jones, deputy commissioner of the FDA's human foods program, updated industry stakeholders and observers on efforts to revamp the agency’s food and nutrition efforts.
The rice industry has been trying for years to prevent products made from riced or crumbled vegetables from being labeled as rice and even from being displayed in the same supermarket aisle as rice products. The industry has scored a few wins.
The nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods Inc., confirmed Tuesday that a large layer operation in the Texas panhandle that accounts for 3.6% of the company’s production has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza.
A Texas resident who was directly exposed to dairy cattle that were “presumed to be infected with avian influenza” is being treated for bird flu, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Monday.
Responding to the Justice Department’s threat of a lawsuit, Dole and Fresh Express have agreed to abandon a deal in which Fresh Express would have acquired Dole’s Fresh Vegetables Division for about $308 million.
California citrus growers can get up to $200,000 for projects to help with climate resilience and long-term sustainability under a program made possible by a $5 million grant from the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
Twenty-one state attorneys general are pressing House and Senate Ag Committee leaders to rewrite the farm bill’s hemp regulations, saying they have opened up a “massive gray market” for hemp-derived products as potent as cannabis.
The Port of Baltimore, a significant shipping point for U.S. sugar imports, suspended traffic Tuesday after a container ship slammed into and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge, shutting the main channel leading into the Chesapeake Bay.