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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
President Joe Biden plans to personally appeal this week to the key senator holding up the administration’s massive spending package, and the long-awaited nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration gets a hearing in the Senate.
Supermarket prices jumped 0.8% in November, pushing the inflation rate for food costs to 6.4% over the past year, the largest increase for a 12-month period since 2008. The White House claims meatpackers bear a lot of the blame.
The Purdue University/CME Group Ag economy barometer fell in November, as producers expressed concerns about growing production costs and fluctuating commodity prices, according to a release.
Truterra, a Land O’ Lakes subsidiary focused on sustainability, announced on Monday details about the second iteration of its carbon program, which will start in 2022.
The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to have growers of leafy greens and other fruits and vegetables conduct “comprehensive assessments” of pre-harvest agricultural water, replacing the current requirement in FDA's 2015 Produce Safety Rule for microbial water quality testing.
Representatives of the nation’s dairy producers say they’d like the chance to contribute to hearings that would take place under new legislation offered in the Senate.
Lawmakers worried that China could gain control over the U.S. food system through land purchases are looking to curb the nation's grip on American farmland, despite no evidence of a spike in land sales to Chinese interests, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of Agriculture Department data.
Multinational food companies raced to set pledges to slash the carbon emissions in their supply chains, and now those firms are scrambling to recruit the farmers needed to meet those targets, even as it remains unclear who’s going to foot the bill.