The Senate on Thursday reached a compromise regarding labels for food that contains genetically modified ingredients, pre-empting the possibility of a patchwork of complicated and potentially conflicting state laws.
Farmers are getting frustrated by a fickle food-buying public and the accompanying demands by food manufacturers, restaurants and grocery stores, according to a story by the public radio program Marketplace.
"We forgot to understand that what we are really dealing with here is the integrity and the perception of the food consumers eat, especially in the area of animal protein," said Jerome Lyman, a former vice president at McDonald's Corp.
Earlier this year, U.S. producers were seeing pork prices—and their profitability--plunge as beef prices set new records at the grocery store. Now, U.S. hog farmers are seeing an estimated profit of $14 per head, according to Rabobank’s newest report.
Forget anti-GMO laws, farm-to-fork, high profile bloggers and other food trends. What most Americans really care about as they spend their food dollars is cost and nutrition.
USDA thinks it has found the source of the devastating PED virus that killed more than 7 million pigs in 2014: contaminated bulk bags used for animal feed.
After months of negotiations and threats of an economically disastrous shutdown, the news of a “tentative agreement” in the West Coast port dispute came as a relief to many in the agriculture industry.
Lower prices for corn, wheat, and soybeans will push down the value of American exports in 2015, according to the quarterly forecast released Thursday by the USDA.
