Here’s what to know about spending less on your holiday dinner – and an analysis of cooking Thanksgiving dinner versus buying it premade. (U.S. News & World Report)

Robert Bonnie, an Obama appointee at the USDA and now the head of an initiative to identify agriculture’s role in mitigating climate change, will lead a review of the Agriculture Department to prepare the way for the incoming administration, said the Biden transition office. (Successful Farming)

A new $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI) will support University of Illinois scientists and collaborators as they develop improved seed corn tailored to the needs of the rapidly growing organic industry. (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)

People all over the country are exhausted by the losses of the pandemic, police violence and continuing protests against it, and the tensions of the election. Even cooks who found pleasure in freezing sheets of pie dough a week ahead of time might find the approach of the holiday overwhelming. (New York Times)

President Donald Trump’s administration has levied tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of Chinese goods, and experts predict trade tensions with China will continue under the Biden administration. (Marketplace

The coronavirus crisis has deepened and Ireland re-entered lockdown last month. This has seen the traditional livestock market industry rely solely on online auctioning for sales to continue. (CNBC)