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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Brazil, a country that produces 42% of the world’s soybeans and 12% of its corn, is intrinsic to global food production, but all of that hinges on the South American nation’s ability to bring in billions of dollars’ worth of fertilizer from thousands of miles away. It’s a situation that Matt Simpson, CEO of the company Brazil Potash, said he wants to help change.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has signed the Sweet Truth Act, which requires warning labels for menu items in chain restaurants that contain more than a day's worth of added sugars.
Two trade associations along with 12 registered dieticians and other online health influencers have received warning letters from the Federal Trade Commission staff.
A federal jury in Illinois has found two large egg producers and trade associations liable for conspiring to restrict supply and drive up egg prices, in a dispute the judge in the case said pitted “the nation’s egg makers against its egg breakers.”
The pork industry is awaiting action by USDA ahead of Nov. 30 on whether processing plants can move to the faster line speeds that a few facilities have been allowed to use in a time-limited trial.
Former House Ag Committee Chair Collin Peterson says moving the Inflation Reduction Act’s conservation funds to commodity program supports is “off the table” for Ag Committee Democrats in the House and Senate, and people trying to do just that “are dreaming.”
Lower turkey prices this year will help soften the cost of preparing Thanksgiving dinner this year compared to 2022, with the total price of the food down 4.5% to 9%, according to a pair of surveys.
Preventable diseases resulting from dietary choices serve as a wake-up call to make policy changes and integrate a greater level of clinician and primary care education on the role of nutrition and "food is medicine" interventions, according to a new bipartisan report on improving health care through nutrition.
Getting into the field and hearing from stakeholders directly will be an important part of how Jim Jones, the Food and Drug Administration's deputy commissioner of human foods, plans to lead the new Human Foods Program at FDA.
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