OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Agriculture is investing more than $3.5 million to get locally grown food on school lunch trays across the state this coming school year. WSDA notified 83 Farm to School purchasing grant award recipients this week and funds are eligible for reimbursement between Sept. 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023. “One […]

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech and Homestead Creamery have formed a partnership based on a shared passion for locally sourced, home-grown, quality ingredients. The collaboration between the nationally ranked Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Department of Food Science and Technology and the award-winning Homestead Creamery brings innovative food science research to market in the form […]

ST. PAUL — Did you know that the farmer’s share of every dollar that consumers spend on food has fallen from 50 percent in 1952 to less than 16 percent today? Did you know that four companies control 85 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of seed corn production and 84 percent of the pesticide […]

TUMWATER, Wash. – A new state laboratory and training center under construction soon in Tumwater will provide a state-of-the-art facility for food safety work, hazardous chemical testing, workplace safety investigations, and more. The Washington state departments of Agriculture (WSDA) and Labor & Industries (L&I) will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the new lab at noon Monday, Nov. 1, at […]

WASHINGTON — In response to a request from Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at the Department of Agricultural Economics in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have completed an extensive report on the U.S. cattle market, including information on supply chain disruptions. The 180-plus page book, titled “The U.S. Beef Supply […]