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Swiss Meat and Sausage has been butchering animals and selling meats in a small, unincorporated east-central Missouri town for 50 years. Co-owner Janice...
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People who most intensely oppose genetically modified food think they know a lot about food science, but actually know the least, according to a peer...
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The partial government shutdown is playing out differently for the nation’s top food safety regulators. At the Food and Drug Administration, fewer than...
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Rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels could have opposing effects on nutrients in soybeans, according to a new study.
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Updated Jan. 22 with Farm Service Agency reopening — The long tentacles of the partial federal government shutdown are reaching especially deep into...
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More than 240,000 guestworkers, many from Mexico, work on U.S. farms for several months each year as a part of the federal H-2A visa program. This year,...
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For crop farmers, winter is the offseason. But that doesn’t mean they take the winter off. It’s meeting season — going to endless seminars or having...
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Plants are good at what they do — turning sunlight into food. However, some researchers have found the leaf world could improve, and that could have a...
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The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government, now into its third week, is reaching ever deeper into the lives of people far from the...
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The U.S. trade war with China has cost farmers billions. Government bailouts have helped keep many farms solvent, but thoughts are turning to this year's planting season.