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Climate change, labor costs, transportation issues, Covid catalysts and other supply chain disruptions are wreaking havoc on the industry.

If meat is grown in a lab without slaughtering animals, what should it be called?

U.S. farmers of color are battling in the courts to save a $4 billion debt relief program approved by Congress

The recall only affects a limited amount of WillowTree chicken salad and dips that were manufactured between Aug. 10 and Aug. 13, according to the FSIS.

Home prices in the most expensive small towns may be more costly than properties in America’s biggest cities, a study finds.

Regenerative farming focuses on replenishing the soil’s nutrients by using things like no-till cultivation, rotational cattle grazing and planting cover crops.

A public health alert has been issued for more than 211,000 pounds of raw ground turkey products due to concerns it may have caused salmonella in some consumers.

Power outages are common in winter. If you’re one of the residents who has lost power, you may already be dealing with a lot of unfortunate circumstances — don’t let spoiled food be another thing to add to your plate.

Nestlé Prepared Foods is recalling about 762,615 pounds of select batches of Hot Pockets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced on Friday.

At the Guatemalan-Maya Center in Lake Worth, volunteers distributed food boxes to hundreds of families of migrant workers.  “I had mothers with four kids and absolutely nowhere to go,” said Father Frank O’Loughlin, the center’s director. Gene Roca, a volunteer, told NBC 6 they distributed 500 boxes as a lifeline for these essential workers during the pandemic.  But he...

Letters from President Trump were dropped in food boxes meant for humanitarian aid. The boxes are part of a federal program where the government buys food from farmers impacted by the pandemic and then distributes it. But as NBC 6 Investigator Phil Prazan reports, some are questioning the motivation and legality of putting a letter from the president in this...

President Donald Trump along with Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a $19B coronavirus assistance plan for farmers and ranchers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says more than 6,000 pounds of frozen sausage patties manufactured in Tennessee have been recalled over concerns they may be contaminated with salmonella. A Food Safety and Inspection Service statement released Friday says the ready-to-eat pork and turkey sausage products were made by George’s Prepared Food in Caryville, Tennessee.

General Mills has issued a nationwide recall over certain five-pound bags of its Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour due to the risk of a potentially deadly form of E. coli, the company and U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced. The voluntary recall affects bags of flour with a better if used by date of Sept. 6, 2020, a recall...

The New York City Department of Education has proposed eliminating chocolate milk from school menus in favor of options that contain less sugar

Tip Top Poultry, Inc. is recalling more than 135,000 pounds of fully cooked poultry products shipped nationwide after a sample produced by the company tested positive for listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Tuesday. The recalled products are “frozen, diced and mechanically separated,” ready-to-eat chicken with a “pack date” of January 21, 2019...

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed tightening automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program, a change that could affect about 3.1 million people. The Agriculture Department said the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to be eligible automatically for food stamps. “For too long, this...

It’s a tiny solution to a huge problem. A little bug from Brazil, called a thrip, may be the best tool Florida scientists have ever had in their decades-old fight against the invasive Brazilian peppertree.