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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 23, 2024
The Agriculture Department is proposing to restrict the sugar content of school meals, while tightening sodium limits, increasing whole grains requirements and possibly letting schools continue serving low-fat flavored milk.
An index of global food commodity prices dropped for the 10th straight month in January on declines in the cost of vegetable oils, dairy products and sugar.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson on Thursday announced the reorganization of subcommittees and named the six chairmen of the panels.
Cattle producers should be in line for a profitable year in 2023, but consumers will see higher prices at the grocery store as a result of an expected drop in production.
Six Colorado River states are at odds with California over proposals for how to conserve between 2 and 4 million acre-feet of water, leaving the decision in the hands of the Bureau of Reclamation.
Stakeholders offered a tepid response to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf’s unveiling Tuesday of a new Humans Foods Program, which Califf said he believes will fundamentally transform the way FDA oversees the U.S. food supply.
When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first unveiled a decree two years ago to ban genetically modified corn and effectively shut out most U.S. exports, Trump administration officials asked themselves the obvious question: Is he really serious about this?
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee has been charged with examining diet through a “health equity lens,” which is encouraging news for anti-hunger advocates. However, the dairy industry is pushing back against the possibility that dairy recommendations could be modified due to concerns about lactose intolerance.