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Smithfield Foods has announced the first participants of its contract grower program for Black and minority farmers.

A team at the University of California, Davis, is seeking a patent for a product they’ve developed to keep food cold or frozen.

The Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit to prevent United States Sugar Corp. from buying a rival processor, Imperial Sugar Co., from agribusiness giant Louis Dreyfus Co.

The Democratic-controlled House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill that includes $82 billion in agriculture provisions aimed at accelerating an historic shift toward climate-related farming practices.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has suspended work on its vaccination/testing mandate for private businesses even as some Republicans in Congress vow to oppose funding to enforce the rule.

A potential “climate-smart” label for food and USDA’s authority to fund large-scale pilot projects using the Commodity Credit Corporation was among the many issues addressed in nearly 400 comments submitted on USDA’s proposed Climate-Smart and Agroforestry Partnership Initiative.

School districts are joining some state agriculture and education departments in appealing to the Agriculture Department to create a list of food products that are exempt from Buy American requirements because U.S.-made versions are hard to obtain.

Cattlemen who have been wishing for more diversified beef processing capacity now have another new facility on the drawing board.

The National Young Farmers Coalition, with support from U.S. restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, announced a new campaign Tuesday asking Congress to invest $2.5 billion over 10 years to in the 2023 farm bill to “facilitate equitable access to one million acres of land for the next generation of farmers.”