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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Food Inc., the movie that riled the agriculture industry back in 2008, is back. This time, as befits a sequel, it’s called “Food Inc., 2” and trains its lens on continued consolidation in the food industry and ultra-processed foods.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson said Tuesday night he plans to move a bipartisan farm bill through the panel next month and that he has identified a way to pay for changes to commodity programs that have been sought by ag groups.
Pork producers are on Capitol Hill this week to push for a measure preempting state-level animal confinement laws like California's Proposition 12 and Massachusetts' Question 3.
An index of world food commodity prices edged up in March after seven straight months of decline, largely driven by price increases for soybean and other vegetable oils.
U.S. olive producers have switched over wholesale to producing growing the fruit for oil, and foreign growers have filled domestic demand for processed olive, according to a new USDA report.
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.