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GateHouse Media, LLC and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting are excited to embark on a new partnership through the creation of an agriculture data journalism fellowship funded by GateHouse.
Spearheaded by big ag lobbyists and enabled by big-ag friendly state legislatures, numerous laws have made it illegal to use deception to secretly videotape treatment of animals at private livestock and meatpacking facilities.
General Mills has outlined a new company approach to curbing pesticide residues in the grain used to produce its cereal and other products.
There's a difference between corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup.
How this corn syrup question is ultimately decided can have potential implications for other food products made with corn syrup and how they are advertised before the public.
The question is: Will the Impossible Burger (and other
competitors eventual entries including Beyond Meat, Memphis Meat and Cargill)
be a craze, or is this the future?
The nation's top meat producer Tyson Foods has gazed into
the crystal ball and thinks it’s coming up meat substitutes.
The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting set up a booth at the annual Historic Farm Days event with the goals to meet more farmers and discuss changes in the agriculture industry.
As many as nine states could see heat indexes above 100 degrees for more than a quarter of the year by 2036, according to a new report. Farmers and ag companies are already preparing.
In total, $7 billion will be sent out to U.S. farmers this summer. The sign up to receive payment starts on Monday July 29, 2019. The amount given to each individual farmer depends on acreage – it will range from $15 to $150.
The last major independent U.S. cattle trade organization, the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund (R-CALF), says enough is enough. R-CALF has filed a class action lawsuit alleging four beef packers manipulated the cash market. R-CALF Chief Executive Officer Bill Bullard pulled no punches in suggesting the Big 4 is dirty.
Cargill says it could take up to ten years for China to bounce back from the impact of the African swine flu outbreak on pork supplies.
As Dave Dickey writes, the chicken industry says consolidation has benefited consumers through increased productivity. But chicken farmers say weakening of the Packers and Stockyards Act had done little beyond lining Big Ag's pockets at their expense. And this could mean some voters may change their mind in 2020.
A Brazilian-owned meat processing company undercut its competition by more than $1 per pound to win nearly $78 million in pork contracts through a federal program launched to help American farmers offset the impact from an ongoing trade war.