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U.S. Farm Income To Hit A 9-Year Low

Net farm income will drop to $58.3 billion from $91.1 billion in 2014, marking the largest percentage decline since 1983, including when figures are adjusted for inflation.

Neal Bredehoeft of Alma, Mo., in Lafayette County, walks through a field of soybeans checking it for signs of threatening insects or disease.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Goes On A Hiring Spree, Boosts Benefits In Response To Labor Shortage

A growing economy, a surge of restaurants, and minimum wage increases imposed by cities and states have all eroded the available foodservice labor supply.

California Woman Sues Costco For Slave-Labor-Farmed Shrimp From Thailand

The plaintiff cited state laws that bar companies from making false claims about illegal conduct in their supply chain, including human rights violations.

In this Dec. 10, 2014, photo, two refrigerated cargo ships, Silver Sea 2, right, and Silver Sea Line, left, are docked alongside one another at Thajeen Port in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Both are owned by Thailand''s Silver Sea Fishery Co., named in an Associated Press investigation into slavery in Southeast Asia’s seafood industry. At the AP''s request, the Colorado-based satellite company, DigitalGlobe, used its high-powered, satellite lenses and managed to catch the Silver Sea 2 as it was being loaded with slave-caught fish on waters off Papua New Guinea.

Wendy’s Struggles To Meet Growing Demand For Fresh Produce

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Consumers ranked produce as the top dietary change they are asking for, surpassing less sugar, salt and fat, according to a survey from AlixPartners last year.

How Globalization Challenges Safety In The Food Supply Chain

Safety technologies emerge to close safety gaps.

Sanitation is especially important in areas where pesticides use may be restricted.

U.S. Farms Struggle To Find Workers

Overall in the U.S., the decline in workers is reducing fruit and vegetable production by 9.5 percent, or $3.1 billion, a year, according to a recently published analysis of government data by the Partnership for a New American Economy.

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Russia To Ban More Countries’ Food Exports

Interfax news agency said the banned food imports list would be expanded by seven countries in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

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How The FDA Trans Fat Ban Will Complicate The Food Supply Chain

The FDA’s decision has the potential to significantly impact the business and legal needs of food manufacturers, suppliers and producers all along the supply chain.

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Food Industry Spokesman Supports Federal GMO Labeling Rule

The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is a sensible solution to the need for labeling food containing GMOs according to the president of the Northeast Agribusiness and Feed Alliance.

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Traceability in a Global Market

Food importers must adopt traceability solutions to ensure the health, safety and legality of the fish in their supply chains

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Quiet Revolution: U.S. Farms Rapidly Adopt Self Driving Tractors And Data Gathering Technology

Data-centric companies with Silicon Valley pedigrees, like 2 1/2-year-old Granular and aerial surveillance startup DroneDeploy, that have the ability to tap into all this machinery and run farms as efficiently as Google runs its data centers.

John Deere has been selling self-driving tractors for 15 years.

U.S. Restaurant Chains And Retailers Support ‘Fair Foods Program’ To Help Farmworkers

Along with the penny premium per pound for tomatoes, growers must have zero tolerance for forced labor, child labor, and sexual harassment.

The population of towns like Immokalee, Fla., swells every winter when migrants and their families move here looking for work.

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