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The American beef cattle herd is as small as it has been since the 1950s, leaving producers to collect booming sales checks and packers to foot the bill for a diminishing supply of livestock.
Food industry experts say the rising cost of food products is not the fault of producers but is the result of higher costs for energy and labor.
“We’re all in this inflationary environment together," a food industry executive said of rising food prices at a panel discussion Tuesday.
There hasn’t been a high-profile fight over food safety in Washington in a while, but that might be about to change.
USDA unveils plan to help build small meat processing plants DAVID PITT, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, at podium, speaks alongside Rep. Cindy Axne, D-3rd, left, inside Rustic Cuts Friday, July 9, 2021 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced his plan to spend $500 million to encourage the construction of smaller meat processing plants located closer to farmers who raise chickens, pigs and cows with the goal of diversifying an industry now consolidated among a few large processors. (Joe Shea...