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Three trends are currently underway in the countryside.
WESTCHESTER, NY — FreshDirect trucks, seemingly ubiquitous in New York City, are popping up more and more in surrounding suburbs.
President Trump has added $1 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program and extended it beyond the end of October.
Dr. Bechara Choucair, White House vaccination coordinator, joins AgriTalk’s Chip Flory to discuss Full FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 years old and older.
The National Restaurant Association says wholesale food prices remain on track to post their largest annual increase since 2014.
USDA said late last week it’s not approving a vaccine mandate exemption for Farm Service Agency (FSA) employees, and now there are fears the next shortage farmers will face will be with FSA local field staff.
If international trade were an Olympic sport, then the U.S. would have lost this latest round of competition by more than a mile.
A red zone is defined by the White House as an area with 100 or more new infections over a one-week period. The good news is the rate of new cases is dropping, says Alan Morgan, CEO, National Rural Health Association.
The pandemic is now old enough to talk, and it’s telling us things about our actions and choices that suggest an unfamiliar future.
The hundreds of thousands of farmworkers who harvest fruits and vegetables for U.S. consumers are often taken for granted.