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Shortly after taking office in January 2017, the current administration followed up on a commitment to control regulatory costs by reducing regulation.
While Election Day has passed and some legal challenges remain, barring some unforeseen event, the general consensus is that Joe Biden will likely take office on Jan. 20, 2021, as the 46th President of the United States.
A historically tight labor market and pandemic combined to test the meat industry’s workforce this spring. The result? A reckoning with long-ingrained challenges.
Unprecedented. Uncertain. Historic. Frantic. Challenging. Words have been used daily to describe the sudden havoc COVID-19 wreaked on the food system and the economy as America worked to slow the spread of the disease and save lives while we kept a nation fed.
Although much of the United States had been shut down at presstime, to slow the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the country is depending on food manufacturers, distributors and grocery stores to stay in operation.
If you work in the agriculture industry, it's common knowledge that less than 2 percent of the country's population works in it. Another widely recognized fact is fewer and fewer of our country’s citizens know where their food comes from — other than a grocery store.
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What happens when you put food-conscious consumers center stage before a group of food producers? Oklahoma pork producers had the opportunity to hear straight from the source in a recent consumer panel hosted by The Center for Food Integrity and quickly realized they don’t know as much as they thought about today’s consumer when it comes to thoughts on food and how it’s produced.
On Demand Often burdened by waste disposal challenges and high-cost fuel needs, large-scale agriculture producers and meat processors – including cattle ranches, cash-grain, poultry, and dairy farms – are constantly looking for new opportunities to divert discarded organic material away from overstuffed landfills (without sacrificing their bottom line).