Memorial Day proves to be one of the most popular days of the year for friends and family to gather around a table full of steamed crabs, and seafood shops and crabhouses in and near Carroll County are gearing up for one of their busiest days of the season. …
A Tangipahoa Parish seafood processing company and an Illinois-based seafood distributor on Tuesday were charged in federal court in New Orleans with mislabeling shrimp caught in Mexico as U.S. shrimp and commercially selling more than $100,000 worth of it in interstate commerce. …
If Americans ever eat genetically engineered fast-growing salmon, it might be because of a Soviet biologist turned oligarch turned government minister turned fish farming entrepreneur. …
Two dairy economists recently released intriguing reports on the dairy provisions of the 2012 Farm Bill issued last month by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. The reports indicate that dairy stakeholders may not be getting their fair share of Farm Bill outlays and that the Dairy Market Stabilization program included in the Farm Bill would have limited the milk supply to processors nearly one-fifth of the time over the last six years. The reports support the policy position taken by the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), which opposes the stabilization program, but supports a compromise margin insurance program not tied to supply management. …
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today honors four remarkable food visionaries for their trailblazing work to make our food systems healthier and more sustainable at the fourth annual "Growing Green Awards". The winners, who are leaders in regenerative ranch management, farmworker justice, farm-to-school food, and making organic food mainstream, will be celebrated this evening at the Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda in San Francisco. …
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