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The big agricultural firms are in part playing defense. Grain traders supply the world’s livestock farms with animal feed - a business that would suffer if fake meat sales rise at the expense of real meat.
A nine-month investigation by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting found dozens of situations at the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service where routine vacancies leave the remaining federal food inspectors vulnerable to burnout, work overload and other job hazards.
In several cases, employees in other roles are oftentimes forced to abandon their own job duties to cover the slaughter line inspections mandated for plants to operate.
In retaliation for some of the U.S. tariffs, China cut off imports of U.S. agricultural products like soybeans and corn. That's led to agribusiness companies like Deere & Co. to announce it's cutting production by 20%.
Tofurky was suing Missouri over its first-in-the-nation state law banning labeling products with meat names if it doesn't contain traditionally harvested poultry or livestock. A meeting to settle the suit
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A Supreme Court decision over the summer reduces government transparency in how it interacts with business, writes Dave Dickey.
United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue took the stage at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday to discuss the U.S.-China trade war, trade agreements and other problems facing farmers. He was interviewed by long-time agriculture journalists Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson. Then the president called.
About two years ago Maplevale Farms, Inc filed a civil lawsuit against the nation's largest chicken processors – Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's Pride, Perdue Farms, Koch Foods and Sanderson Farms are all plaintiffs – alleging the companies conspired together between 2008 and 2016 to fix poultry prices.
But as Dave Dickey writes, billions of dollars are at stake here. And things are not always as they seem.
A controversy we’ve covered in the past has resulted in a shut down for a Missouri animal farm.
Now officials are posting the complaints online. What changed? This story was originally published on The Guardian. It is not for republication. In September 2016, with Tropical Storm Hermine bearing down on North Carolina, Kemp Burdette rented a single-engine plane and flew over Duplin County.