Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s division of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has identified some of the mysterious seed packets that seem to have been sent to more than 1,000 American households from China.

Meatpacking plants have been particularly susceptible to the coronavirus because workers often stand shoulder to shoulder carving up meat.

Officials are trying to identify the seeds, which they worry could be invasive plant species, and threatening to native plants and crops, or could introduce diseases or be harmful to livestock.

Ranchers saw cattle prices drop after a temporary closure of slaughterhouses during the coronavirus pandemic while limited meat at grocery stores caused prices to surge, according to a 20-page analysis by the USDA. 

President Trump said Thursday that phase one of the U.S.-China trade deal means much less to him now despite China stepping up agriculture purchases in recent weeks. 

Cooks Venture is a company focused on raising its own breed of healthy chickens.

A California state appeals court has reduced Bayer AG's $289.2 million settlement with a former school groundskeeper who claimed the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer.

Several worker advocacy organizations have filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture alleging that meat processing companies Tyson Foods and JBS have engaged in racial discrimination during the coronavirus pandemic.

A sustained labor shortage could impact the soy and corn harvests that start in September.

Chipotle is launching a virtual farmers market for its suppliers with Shopify's help.

Tensions have flared over Beijing's handling of the coronavirus

A handful of the nation’s largest meatpackers was sued for collaborating in a “cartel”-like manner to limit the meat supply.

The lawsuit was among those Bayer inherited when it bought Monsanto for in 2018.

Beef prices are supermarkets spiked during the coronavirus pandemic, while prices paid to ranchers for cattle steadily dropped.

As the coronavirus pandemic has led to meat shortages across the country in recent weeks, some restaurants are raising their meat prices to prevent shutting down for good.

Pork farmers may have to euthanize more than 10 million hogs by September if overcrowding continues.

Ivanka Trump and USDA Sec. Perdue visited a Maryland food wholesaler Friday to launch the USDA's $3 billion "Farmers to Families Food Box" program.

To prevent lasting and severe food insecurity, we need the government to make farmers whole this year

The hog industry will lose more than $5 billion due to restaurant closures, the senators wrote.

Harvester crews typically traverse the nation with their combines and grain trucks taking on work where the crops are ripening.