Success sensibly rests both on responding to negative assaults on the industry ... and in promoting the huge array of positive findings that should encourage people to want to increase their purchases and consumption of grain-based foods.

To exempt smaller manufacturers from the (food safety) law for business reasons puts consumers at risk.

World needs South American crop to ease supply, price concerns

Once a leader in pressing for liberalized trade, grain-based foods may find itself outside the system transformed by forces like electronics, telecommunications and data processing.

The latest ingredient cost swings ought to prompt serious introspection for any company that continues operate without comprehensive risk management policies.

Supply-demand factors influencing skyrocketing cotton prices are not all that different from forces at work in wheat.

Largely because of present-day bitterness and divides in American politics, efforts to address issues affecting agricultural programs have been muted.