– A group of award-winning barbecue restaurants in southern Illinois are coming together to provide meals for health care employees and other workers battling on the front lines of the … Read More

You may have heard stories of farmers having to dump milk in Wisconsin or plow under potatoes in Idaho. Since there are no farmer’s markets in operation, and most restaurants … Read More

: Illinois farmers may sign up for WHIP+ Quality Loss Payments by contacting their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office and setting up an appointment. All counties are eligible for … Read More

Given the scale of this sector, Illinois must find the fortitude to overcome engrained barriers and self-interests to accelerate its future. (Crain’s Chicago Business)

Negotiations on another emergency coronavirus aid package are expected to ramp up as the Senate returns on Monday. Lawmakers are pushing for more money to rescue the agriculture industry that’s … Read More

Domestic farm workers, many of them undocumented immigrants, would be covered by a bill of rights for essential workers that advocates and a group of House Democrats want included in … Read More

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday said meatpacking plants will reopen in a matter of “days not weeks,” citing an executive order this week signed by President Trump. Workers in … Read More

The pandemic is exposing the perils of agreements based on numerical targets rather than tariff reductions or policy concessions. (Wall Street Journal)

– The food supply chain, and all our supply chains, are adapting, slowly and with understandable fits and starts sometimes, to shifts in demand of a magnitude only those old … Read More

Because of the COVID-related shutdown and slowdown in meat processing, we know the supply curve for meat has shifted upward and to the left (i.e., the marginal cost of producing … Read More