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American pet food production in 2018 surpassed 8 million tons, about 4.5 percent of the estimated 177 million tons in total feed production.

Anheuser-Busch must back off some of its print and TV ads attacking Miller Lite's use of corn syrup, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The Mexican government will allow 55,000 additional tons of tariff-free chicken as the country works through an avian flu outbreak.

Innovators developing a low-cost insect-based feed source and a wine pairing system were two food and agriculture recipients of over $110,000 in “The Big Bang” funds announced last week.

Multiple sources agree that African Swine Fever, first confirmed in China on Aug. 2, 2018, in the northeastern city of Shenyang, is ravaging the Asian giant’s pork industry in a way that will have impacts on global protein production and feed consumption for several years in the future.

An effort to overhaul immigration laws got off to a rocky start on Capitol Hill when the White House plan developed by Jared Kushner met with a decidedly cool reception in the Senate.

Beef checkoff dollars should not be used automatically to support private speech funded by state beef councils, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America argued in a brief filed in federal court in Montana Monday.

“Hunger is an issue affecting too many Californians,” according to a resolution passed this week by the state Senate. Citrus Stride Day addresses this challenge by donating to food banks 1,000 pounds of citrus for every lawmaker who participates in the one-mile walk around the capitol.

Africa’s uneasy history with agricultural biotechnology can be summed up by what’s growing, and not growing, on a small research farm in central Malawi, one of the poorest and most food-insecure countries on the planet.