POLICY
Consumer wishes and wants travel quickly up and down the food chain and can drastically alter the entire food system. “Consumers in the developed world have come to look at the food system, I think, as something as a utility,” says William Hallman, of the Food Policy Institute at Rutgers University. “You turn on the faucet and orange juice comes out, you got to the supermarket and the food is just there.”
In a Farm Journal email survey sent in October, 56% of the more than 1,500 respondents said if elections were held tomorrow, they would vote to re-elect President Trump.
Officials signaled they expect recent hurricanes to have just a short-term impact on the economy.
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The order created a task force to examine “barriers to economic prosperity in rural America.”
The minutes also showed that just one official voted against the March interest rate hike.
New rules on ammonia reporting for poultry farms need more time to properly analyze, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
13 states sue to stop cage free eggs law in Massachusetts
On Feb. 24, AgDay will have team coverage of an important issue to animal agriculture—the proposed law on caged hens.