Cattle group proposes more transparency in market prices As an antidote for the dwindling cash market, the largest U.S. cattle group circulated a plan on Tuesday for meatpackers to voluntarily buy cattle on the spot market to assure fair and open prices, with the threat of mandatory disclosure if the system fails. Iowa leans for […]
Characteristics of cell-based meat matter for labeling, meat lobby says The government should base its decision about how to label cell-based meats on their characteristics — their relative meatiness — rather than on their production method, said trade groups representing meatpackers and the startups growing meat in the lab. Study: Participation in afterschool nutrition programs […]
Judge vacates Trump rule tightening SNAP time limits Pointing to the impact of the pandemic on the economy, a U.S. district judge vacated on Sunday a Trump administration regulation setting stricter time limits on SNAP benefits for able-bodied adults who do not work at least 20 hours a week. Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the […]
School meal programs have lost more than $ 483 million so far during the pandemic School meal programs have taken a massive financial hit during the coronavirus crisis, according to a new survey from the School Nutrition Association. The survey, which includes responses from school nutrition directors in 1,614 school districts across the country, points […]
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Pilgrim’s to pay $ 110.5 million fine in U.S. price-fixing investigation The second-largest poultry processor in the country, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., said on Wednesday that it will pay a $ 110.5 million fine as part of a plea agreement with the Justice Department, which is investigating price fixing in broiler chicken products. Pilgrim’s announced the […]
Ethanol and China are flash points for Trump and Biden campaigns President Trump “sold out ethanol to Big Oil” by handing out dozens of exemptions from the ethanol mandate, said Iowa farmer Pam Johnson, speaking for the Biden campaign at a forum on Tuesday. “We haven’t abandoned the RFS and we aren’t going to — […]
Economic recovery depends on ‘the path of the virus’ — Fed official The U.S. recovery from the pandemic will depend in part on success in managing the coronavirus through steps such as therapeutics and a vaccine, the president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank told an agribusiness conference on Monday. Also at the meeting, […]
Consumers will pay higher meat prices through 2020 Grocery store prices for meat are declining after their springtime coronavirus surge, but more slowly than expected, meaning that shoppers will pay noticeably more at the meat counter this year than in 2019, said USDA economists. In the monthly Food Price Outlook, the USDA forecast meat prices […]
Perdue unwilling to use SNAP to fullest during pandemic, says think tank Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue shows more enthusiasm for cutting SNAP enrollment than in making full use of food stamps to alleviate hunger during the pandemic, said the think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) on Thursday. SNAP enrollment has rocketed to 43 million, […]