food supply chain

According to ERS, the farm share of the food dollar increased one cent in 2020. On average, U.S. farmers received 16.0 cents for farm commodity sales from each consumer dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2020, up from a revised 15 cents in 2019 ...

On Thursday, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA will make available $215 million in grants and other support to make America’s food supply chain more resilient. The financing will help expand meat and poultry processing options, strengthen the food supply chain, and create jobs and economic opportunities in rural areas. The ...

In any kind of system, when things change, it's ideal for it to be flexible, to bend and not break and make a fast correction when needed. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the farming industry found out during the pandemic that the U ...

Supply chain issues impacting fertilizer, seed, crop protection products, and even machinery parts, have farmers facing another challenge in growing a crop. Marieta Hauser, member of the American Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee, said the price and availability of products to raise a crop are a big challenge right now. “ ...

The past couple of years have been very challenging for cattle producers across the Northwest. This year, it was record heat and drought. Last year, it was the pandemic and supply chain shutdowns. And before that, a lack of hook space and several other issues between producers and the packers ...

The House Agriculture Committee will hold a hearing on supply chain issues on Wednesday, November 3rd. The hearing, titled “The Immediate Challenges to our Nation’s Food Supply Chain,” will address the wide-ranging supply disruptions in the U.S. food and agric ...

While the cost of last year’s Thanksgiving Day dinner was the lowest since 2010, this year could be quite a different story. According to the New York Times, this could be the most expensive dinner on record in the holiday’s history. Nearly ev ...

A quarterly report from CoBank suggests that while the U.S. economy is still very much in the grips of the pandemic, supply chains are arguably in the most dire condition since the start of the pandemic, as lead times for manufacturing inputs recently reached record highs ...

"The pandemic exposed a number of weakness in our food supply chain and need for more support for expanded processing," noted Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack when he recently announced the latest in a series of financial commitments to help strengthen the midpoints of the food chain ...

Restaurants across the U.S. are feeling supply chain issues for their food products, all while also contending with issues around upgrading kitchen equipment. Restaurant Business reports it can sometimes take months to get equipment in the door, thanks to a backlog of imports that has left two dozen or more container ships waiting outside of U ...