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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.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the U.S. has made it clear at the climate summit in Glasgow that the United States has re-engaged in the global climate change discussion but also has emphasized that “agriculture is not part of the problem. It's part of the solution.”

Workers at companies with 100 or more employees will have to either get vaccinated for COVID-19 or wear face masks and take weekly tests under an emergency standard published Friday.

Multiple breakdowns in how goods are transported across the country and around the globe are worsening crises in a food and agriculture sector that is already bleeding profits and customers, according to witnesses at a House hearing Wednesday.

The J.R. Simplot Company and Plant Sciences Inc., have announced a strategic partnership to bring the first commercially gene edited strawberry to supermarkets.