Items Tagged with 'supply chain resilience'

A growing coalition wants the Biden administration to leverage its $8.8 billion in federal food purchasing to promote racial equity, animal welfare, environmental sustainability and local food procurement.

Even as some states and USDA invest millions of dollars in expanding medium and small-scale meat processing, a new economic analysis cautions against seeing this development as insulation against the next “black swan” event, which is how the researchers describe the pandemic.

The Agriculture Department says it will spend more than $4 billion to address supply chain issues in the farm sector highlighted by the COVID pandemic and the recent cyberattack on meatpacker JBS.