When Tim and Emily Lewis started making their own soft serve for their newest business venture, The Salted Lemon Market & Creamery, they bumped into a roadblock with the state’s … Read More
A “mini-deal” struck last month to remove EU tariffs on U.S. lobsters is unlikely to be followed swiftly by similar accords, given transatlantic differences over agriculture, EU Vice President Valdis … Read More
The Center for Digital Agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a $20 million grant to develop a new Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and … Read More
Last week, and six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the federal worker safety agency issued its first Covid-19-related citations in the meatpacking industry, where the United Food and Commercial Workers … Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it’s setting aside more than half a billion dollars for fishermen hurt by tariffs associated with the U.S.-China trade war. Some Alaskans are applauding … Read More
The Trump administration has denied retroactive biofuel blending waivers that would have exempted oil refiners from requirements to blend biofuels into their fuel mix, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said … Read More
E-commerce giants are enacting new restrictions on the sale of seeds, but the moves are unlikely to eliminate the tactics government officials and industry experts suspect are behind the mystery … Read More
Maine lobster fishermen are about to get a $50 million federal bailout to offset the crippling impact of the United States-China trade war. (Portland Press Herald)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new online resources to conduct businesses with Illinois farmers. (WICS)
Global soybean demand has been robust recently, with new American crop sales at record levels, said Jim Sutter, CEO of the U.S. Soybean Export Council. (CNBC)
