EconomyCommentary
For the past 18 months, China’s farm and agriculture sectors have been pummeled by two different infestations. African swine flu has killed millions of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Driving up food prices is a bad idea any time, especially during a pandemic. Yet a small subset of fruit and vegetable growers are pushing… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The federal government has created numerous barriers to the sale of meat and poultry, but underlying those restrictions is a complete disregard for many farmers,… Read More
EconomyCommentary
There’s a lot of media coverage of what U.S.-made goods China is supposed to be buying as a part of the administration’s trade deal with… Read More
EconomyNews
America experienced meat shortages at some grocery stores this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts say reforms are needed to the meat-inspection process that… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testified before the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees last month on the Trump administration’s trade policies,… Read More
SocietyNews
After delivering 1.6 million boxes of food to food banks across the country, the Department of Agriculture is in the final stages of deciding which… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Trump administration published this spring its new definition of “navigable waters” (also known as “waters of the United States”) under the Clean Water Act…. Read More
Health CareCommentary
Over the past week, there have been two widely repeated myths regarding the meat supply amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The first deals with Tyson Foods’… Read More
EconomyNews
Warnings of the possibility of coming meat shortages have left many Americans wondering whether we will see the meat and poultry cases in grocery stores just… Read More
