The pork industry shifted dramatically over the past three decades. A USDA report tracks how the industry moved away from small operations to CAFOs, production contracts nd specialization.
The conduct of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in oversight of Envigo's Cumberland, Virginia, beagle breeding facility between 2017 and 2022 is atrocious, sickening and heartbreaking, Dickey writes.
Citing concerns about China, House Republicans ask GAO to look at foreign ownership. The 1978 Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act requires holders to report ownership to the USDA. There are gaps in the data reported.
President Biden announced in August that the government would forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for most borrowers. What about forgiving loans for farmers?
Mindy Brashears, the former head of the USDA's agency overseeing meatpacking plants, has been largely quiet about her agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in exclusive interviews, she addresses the criticism the USDA put food production over worker safety.
The program will pair high school and college students in what’s called a “near peer” model to help ease the minority participants into the mentorship.
So-called farrow-to-finish operations have become a smaller and smaller share of the hog industry as more specialized operations have taken over, according to a recent study published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Tyson revelation is one finding in a new congressional report that details the myriad ways meat executives and sympathetic government allies influenced federal coronavirus response at the expense of worker safety.
