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The United States on Friday ended a ban on imports of avocados from Mexico's Michoacan state and restarted an agricultural inspection program it had halted out of concern for the safety of U.S. workers.

The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the

WASHINGTON — Native American groups say food is both identity and power, something they want Washington to understand as they seek more control of their own diets, more traditional foods in aid programs and bigger roles for Indigenous American farmers.

Native American groups say food is both identity and power, something they want Washington to understand as they seek more control of their own diets, more traditional foods in aid programs and bigger roles for Indigenous American farmers.  The groups are eyeing not only the Food Distribution Program on Indian…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines bioengineered food as food that “contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques that cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature.”

If the latest USDA estimate holds true, Florida would produce its fewest number of oranges since 1944-1945, and California would surpass it for the first time in recent years.

March NY world sugar #11 (SBH25 ) today is down -0.52 (-2.26%), and December London ICE white sugar #5 (SWZ24 ) is down -8.60 (-1.49%). Sugar prices today are sharply lower after rain forecasts for Brazil sparked long liquidation in sugar futures. Forecaster Maxar Technologies said today that substantial showers...