New policy initiatives to curb food waste are likely to be part of the new farm bill. Depending how far these efforts go, some big changes to long-standing policies could result.A number of chefs descended on Capitol Hill this week to demand policy reforms to end food waste. Their coalition is organized under the name Plate of the Union and is sponsored by the Food Policy Action (FPA) education fund and the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The latter is of course an active force in the effort to reform farm programs as well as farm and conservation policy, while the former is a group headed by TV celebrity chef Tom Colicchio. He commented at the Plate of the Union farm bill summit in April that, “For too many Americans, access to affordab...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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