A new outdoor campaign by Dole Packaged Foods is highlighting food poverty in America with giant projections on buildings in New York, Los Angeles and Baltimore. (Ad Age)

Bitter cold and snow is responsible for hundreds of closings in the region this week, but students in the University Farms program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, haven’t had a break. (WSIL)

Food giant Nestle said on Thursday it wanted to keep growing organic sales towards a mid single-digit rate this year after strong demand for pet food and health products in the Americas helped its growth outshine peers last year. (CNBC)

Central Texas farmers and ranchers are doing everything they can to protect their livestock from the crippling cold. (KXXV)  

The flower industry’s pandemic success at the retail level has revealed our zealous, if not a little despairing, need to nurture relationships from a distance. (Press News Agency)

With Biden’s new administration settling into the White House, wine lobbies and EU politicians are pressuring EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis to uncork the trade barrier. (Politico