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

President Donald Trump defended his actions to end a “bottleneck” in the food supply, but legal experts differed over whether an executive order aimed at ensuring meatpackers keep operating amid … Read More

Sales of snacks have surged as people confined to their homes by coronavirus lockdowns turn to grazing on processed food to get through the day, food companies say—a reversal of … Read More

The Trump administration is weighing whether to extend by one year some China tariff exclusions, a move that would offer some relief for U.S. businesses navigating the fallout from the … Read More

– A day after Donald Trump’s unprecedented executive order to keep meat plants running, one more shut down. Another opened back up — but only to cull animals that can’t … Read More

Feeding America is launching an ad campaign urging Congress to include an across-the-board food stamp benefit increase in the next Covid-19 relief package as more and more Americans file for … Read More

The increase in online food purchases that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown will likely persist, affecting the cold storage sector, according to a new report from the commercial real … Read More