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A federal appeals court blocks enforcement of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine and testing mandate for private employers, saying the rules raise “serious constitutional concerns” and would severely harm businesses.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will allow up to nine pork plants to operate at faster line speeds in a year-long trial so long as they implement worker safety measures.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Jose Emilio Esteban as the next undersecretary for food safety at USDA, a role that would give him oversight of the FSIS programs he currently monitors as the agency’s chief scientist.

At the latest UN Conference of the Parties in Glasgow these past two weeks, food and ag has been if not center stage, at least an important part of the discussion.

Supermarket prices jumped another 1% in October and are up 5.4% over the past year as food continues to contribute to the worst inflation consumers have seen in decades.

Maine voters chose to enshrine a right to food in their Constitution last Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. state to add such an amendment. The measure may not change much, if anything, about the state’s laws surrounding the production of food. Or it could entirely reshape them.

American cattle and hog producers are sending meat overseas at a record rate in 2021 after strong third-quarter returns charted by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

A bipartisan group of four senators has an agreement that might serve as a vehicle to address long-standing issues of price discovery and transparency in the beef industry.

Consumers in 10 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, the UK, New Zealand and Singapore, don’t see it as a priority to make major changes to agriculture or their diets to address climate change, according to a new survey.