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With most of the country locked indoors amidst the COVID-19 crisis, food supply chains have continued to function largely unhindered, even if there exists no semblance of normalcy in their operations. However, for food supply chains to remain healthy, it is critical to ensure produce gets harvested...

Expanded inspections of Mexican tomatoes crossing the United States border are scheduled to start in less than two weeks. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a reminder on Wednesday that the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will begin the enhanced inspections of tomatoes...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday attempted to assure American farmers that a recently negotiated trade deal between the U.S. and China is starting to make headway. "President Trump and this Administration negotiated a strong trade agreement with China that promises significant...

A group of American agriculture and forest products shippers wants the ocean carriers in the U.S.-China trade to extend the "free-time" deadlines for containers delayed in marine terminals due to the impact of the coronavirus on international shipping. "While this is open-ended, our U.S. exporters...

A group of more than 80 trade associations representing the agricultural products industry wants the U.S. House to pass legislation that would fill the current shortfall of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at the nation's ports of entry. The 2019 Protecting America's...

When United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) last October made its first medical delivery by drone, it may have finally begun what drone advocates have been touting for a decade — a new era when unmanned flights may become just as normal as those in aircraft with pilots. There are a couple of...

A group of American agriculture product shippers has developed draft service contract guidance that sets parameters for when ocean carriers can justify demurrage and detention charges for late pickup and delivery of containers at marine terminals. The action follows the U.S. Federal Maritime...

Defiance ETFs, the firm behind such funds as the Defiance 5G Next Gen Connectivity ETF (NYSE: FIVG) and the Defiance NextGen Video Gaming ETF (NYSE: VIDG), added to its lineup Thursday with a more compelling avenue for investing in agriculture and food equities. What Happened The Defiance Next Gen...

The often-maligned former president George W. Bush was known for statements of simplicity. But love him or hate him, Bush was profoundly correct when in Stockton, California in 2002 he told the crowd of farmers and ranchers he was speaking to, "I'm thrilled to be here in the breadbasket of America...

Winter came early and with a vengeance in the northern Plains this year. A record-setting snowstorm slammed the Dakotas and western Minnesota for three days last week, in mid-October, before fading over the weekend. North Dakota got hit the hardest. It was a storm that will be hard for many people...

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Growing investment and consumer interest in laboratory-grown meat will change the dynamics of the meat industry, said RethinkX in its food and agriculture report. It expects the industrial animal farming segment to shrink by 50% by 2030. RethinkX is an independent think tank that works on analyzing...

When the Democrats took the House of Representatives in the election of 2018, it appeared that one of the very few things that Congress and the president might agree on would be infrastructure spending. It now appears that that is not going to happen, which is especially bad news for agricultural...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue joined seven of his predecessors at the agency in calling on Congress to vote on and ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal with major implications for cross-border trucking. The Sept. 18 letter to party leaders...

Officials in Mexico and the United States are discussing expanding a joint pilot inspection program aimed at reducing wait times for agricultural products at the border The program has already been implemented at Port Laredo's Colombia Solidarity International Bridge, where wait times have been...