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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 29, 2024
A dry fall helped speed harvest and reduce the need for propane for drying this year’s crops, and that will help farmers deal with the price increases for the fuel expected this winter.
Inflation across every sector of the food industry has left companies with the choice: to raise prices or hold steady and shrink the volume of food offered, a process called shrinkflation.
New technology with a Department of Agriculture stamp of approval could offer speedy help to hog producers hit by emerging disease outbreaks. And beef producers may soon see the benefits as well.
A nationwide trucking shortage that began well before the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has worsened and is not anticipated to improve anytime soon. According to the American Trucking Associations, the United States currently needs an additional 80,000 truckers to meet the demands of shippers.
Producers, lawmakers, and administration staffers all agree on the benefits of the technical assistance provided by Agriculture Department conservation officials. The only issue is getting the funding – and the people – to make it happen.
At the beginning of the new year, consumers could have trouble finding some of their favorite food products in their local grocery stores and the reason may surprise you.
Agrivoltaics — derived from the words agriculture and photovoltaics — creates a symbiotic energy system. Not all solar farms are agrivoltaic, but these systems are getting more attention due to concerns that solar land leases take farmland out of production.
New animal rights agendas in Western states are threatening to curtail livestock production there as animal rights groups latched onto an environmental platform that calls for cutting back or eliminating meat consumption altogether to help slow climate change.
Companies that make plant-based meat, egg and dairy alternatives have been heavily relying on imported crops for the ingredients they need and hope to convince more U.S. farmers to start growing peas, beans and other commodities.
In mid-March 2020, when restaurants and foodservice mostly shut down due to COVID-19, the livestock and dairy industries experienced unparalleled disruption.