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Sunday, November 27, 2022
Proposed changes to the Women, Infants and Children program announced Thursday by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service would give a boost to fruit and vegetable consumption but de-emphasize dairy.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky doesn’t just want the Black Sea Grain Initiative to be extended before the deal expires Nov. 19 – he wants the deal to be “extended indefinitely.”
USDA-FNS authorized $3 million to Auburn University’s Hunger Solutions Institute to work with six retailers in Alabama, California, Georgia and South Dakota to implement at 116 locations its Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Projects to encourage increased consumption of healthy dairy products.
The Biden administration's top ag official says $800 million in debt relief announced earlier this week will not only help distressed farmers facing foreclosure but provide “opportunities for more farmers to receive help.”
The White House hunger and nutrition conference is in the books. Now, the question is how much of the White House food strategy will be put into practice - and what it will mean for the ag and food sectors.
Plenty of job changes this week as the Organic Produce Association taps a new leader, Shultz moves to a new climate role, and Adesina joins Kraft Heinz and Frank gets promoted to the top of UPL.
The thorny and politically charged issue of the sustainability of the food system is once again front and center in the debate over the government's dietary guidelines.
The much-anticipated White House hunger and nutrition conference set for Sept. 28 will feature the release of a national strategy that's expected to lay out a blueprint for ending hunger and addressing diet-related diseases that could very well embrace the old parental admonition: Eat your vegetables.
USDA has added new officials to its White House liaison and faith-based initiatives offices, and Tyson Foods is looking for a new international group president.
