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The Walmart Foundation announced Monday a $750,000 grant to the National FFA Foundation to incorporate sustainability principles in school education.  The National FFA Foundation will leverage its expertise to develop these educational resources.  The Nat...

The new executive director of the Potato Sustainability Alliance says growers need to share what sustainability efforts they’ve already made and how those steps have benefited consumers and the planet. John Mesko said often when sustainability in agriculture comes up, farmers are expected to change their practices, or at the very least improve upon them. But ...

The Federal Trade Commission is ordering nine large retailers, wholesalers, and consumer good suppliers to provide detailed information on supply chain disruptions. The information will also show how disruptions are causing hardships for consumers and harming competition in the U ...

Do you have a family recipe that uses some of the great commodities grown in Idaho? If so, Idaho Preferred would like to hear from you. The organization is taking submissions in their first ever digital recipe contest, now through the end of the month ...

Tyson Foods this week agreed to $221.5 million to settle claims related to price-fixing lawsuits. The settlements are with three consumer and commercial purchasing groups who bought chickens directly from Tyson and require a federal judge's approval ...

Americans are again stocking up the pantry over supply chain, coronavirus and political unrest fears. In a report from industry publication Progressive Grocer, research shows more than half of Americans say they're stockpiling groceries or plan to stockpile ...

Walmart recently announced that the company is doubling down on addressing the growing climate crisis by targeting zero emissions across the company's global operations by 2040. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are also committing to help protect, manage, or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030 to help combat the cascading loss of nature threate

Ag economists say boosting resiliency in the meat supply chain after the shocks of the coronavirus pandemic won’t be easy, but they have some ideas. The challenge is efficiency versus resilience, cost versus capacity, as consumers found out when processing plants closed, forcing livestock owners to euthanize millions of animals nationwide. “T ...

With much of the country under a stay at home order, many Americans are not going to work. But, the folks who produce and distribute our food are on the job, and getting thanks for their efforts. "Thank you for doing a great job, for keeping food on the table for the American people ...

Walmart officially entered the beef business in January when it opened a case-ready beef plant in Georgia after establishing its own Angus supply chain.  The facility is the latest step by Walmart in its vertical integration strategy for food, according to a new report from CoBank's Knowledge Exchange division.  If...