U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack holds a virtual panel discussion at noon ET on Feb. 3 on driving improvements in child health through school meals. NTD will livestream the event.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has granted conditional use to the world’s first-ever vaccine for honeybees that could prevent colonies from getting infected with American foulbrood, a type of bacterial disease that affects the bee’s larvae. Dalan Animal Health, the U.S.-based biotech company that developed the vaccine, announced the approval in a Jan. 4 […]
A recent American Farm Bureau Federation survey shows the average cost for a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 will cost about $64 this year—up 20% from last year. The Department of Agriculture had partly blamed Russia’s conflict in Ukraine for the Thanksgiving price hikes, as well as the avian flu and drought in the U.S. NTD […]
OMAHA, Neb.—The Agriculture Department announced more than $223 million in grants and loans Wednesday to help small- and mid-sized meat processing plants expand as part of a larger $1 billion effort to boost competition in the highly concentrated industry. The effort is expected to increase cattle and pig slaughter capacity by more than 500,000 head […]
A Tennessee-based company has issued a recall for nearly 500 pounds of beef jerky products due to possible contamination of listeria, according to officials. The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in a Sept. 6 notice that the ready-to-eat beef jerky items were produced on Aug. 25 by the establishment Magnolia Provision and […]
DES MOINES, Iowa—The federal government on Monday announced proposed new regulations that would force food processors to reduce the amount of salmonella bacteria found in some raw chicken products or risk being shut down. The proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules would declare salmonella an adulterant—a contaminant that can cause food-borne illness—in breaded and […]
“Tiger King” star Bhagavan “Doc” Antle has been charged with laundering more than half a million dollars, money federal prosecutors said Monday that he believed to be the proceeds of an operation to smuggle people across the Mexican border into the United States. Charges against Antle and Andrew Jon Sawyer, one of Antle’s employees at […]
Consumers can expect food prices to increase by as much as 8 percent in 2022 due to the war in Ukraine, higher interest rates, and avian flu, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) 2022 Food Price Outlook. “All food prices are now predicted to increase between 6.5 and 7.5 percent,” the outlook said. The […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects food prices to soar 5 percent on average this year, marking the highest single-year surge since 2008, which is set to leave Americans forking out more for everyday food essentials. In its monthly Food Price Outlook, the USDA said it has raised its estimate following two months of price surges “across many of the […]
