U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said China hasn’t lived up to its promises under the Phase One trade agreement Beijing made with President Donald Trump. (Bloomberg)  

The Biden administration is targeting a small group of meat packers for high beef, pork and poultry prices that it says are squeezing consumers and fueling inflation, arguing that they are abusing their market power. (Nasdaq)

Consumer prices jumped more than seven percent from December 2020 to December 2021. For some people, that increase was merely an inconvenience. But for others, it wrecked their budget and set them on a path to food insecurity. (WAND)

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Illinois Farm Service Agency now has a new State Executive Director. Grundy County farmer Scott Halpin started the job on January 3rd. (WCMY)

China’s zero-Covid policies are putting Chinese cities into lockdown and grounding air travel anew. They are also disrupting trade routes across its land borders that are lifelines for the region’s farmers and merchants. (Wall Street Journal)  

The Philippines’ swine inventory increased by about 700,000 heads over the last 12 months owing to a repopulation programme, following two years of declines due to African swine fever outbreaks, an agriculture official said on Tuesday. (Reuters