Increased funding for F.D.A. in the current year, but severe cuts loom in fiscal 2013

To have rice prices advancing underscores the way governmental interference in world food markets often has negative consequences.

The decrease in food processing’s share of the food dollar is accompanied by similar, but mostly smaller, declines in the farm share, in packaging, in transportation and in the retail trade.

It is the privately-owned flour milling companies that seem satisfied with building their milling businesses while avoiding anything that smacks of diversification.

2012 per capita meat and poultry consumption expected to decline to lowest level since 1990

Many governmental and public health efforts to date have focused on singular causes and ignored the broad range of issues that contribute to the problem.

The current income situation may test whether improved prices and income alone are sufficient to make wheat once again a favored crop of the nation’s farmers.