Scott McFetridge

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June 11, 2025
Farm workers gather produce on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Moorpark, Calif.
Farm Bureaus Say Immigration Raids Posing Risks to Nation's Food Supply
June 16, 2025
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Conagra Announces Dozens of New Frozen Products
June 13, 2025
In this Friday, July 22, 2021, photograph, employees move into an entrance to the JBS meat processing plant in Greeley, Colo.
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Eggs are transferred to a machine that spots male embryos, Wilton, Iowa, Dec. 10, 2024.
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World Food Prize Announces Changes to Expand International Reach
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Short corn in one of farmer Cameron Sorgenfrey's fields, Wyoming, Iowa, Sept. 16, 2024.
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The crop's smaller stature and sturdier base enable it to withstand winds of up to 50 miles per hour.
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A Jersey cow feeds in a field in Iowa.
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How the egg industry could provide guidance on how to slow the disease.
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Cary Fowler, left, and Geoffrey Hawtin at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, Feb. 24, 2014.
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World Food Prize Goes to Pair who Protected Seeds in Arctic Vault
The two were instrumental in the “craziest idea anyone ever had.”
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Meredith Ellis does her daily cattle count on her ranch in Rosston, Texas, April 19, 2023.
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The regulations follow years of discussions with organics groups, farming organizations and livestock and poultry producers.
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Barges float in the Mississippi River, St. Louis, Sept. 15, 2023.
Supply Chain
Low Water Limits Barges on Mississippi River
The restrictions come just as farms are preparing to harvest crops and send them downriver.
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Sows move freely inside a breeding area at farm in Walsh, Ill., June 29, 2023.
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California Bacon Law Takes Effect
But pork from farms using cages will still be on shelves.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds gives the Condition of the State address at the state Capitol in Des Moines, Jan. 10, 2023.
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Lawmakers stripped out provisions that would have applied to children as young as 14.
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Heidi Kühn with her son Christian.
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Roots of Peace Founder Wins World Food Prize
The California nonprofit replaces land mines with grape vines, fruit trees and vegetables.
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An American Ethanol label shown on a NASCAR race car gas tank at Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Nov. 1, 2014.
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EPA Allows Higher Ethanol Blends in Gasoline
The summertime emergency waiver aims to reduce gas prices amid supply uncertainty.
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