Meat: You love it and yet read so much false information online about it. Next time someone comes to you with these common meat myths, hit them back with the facts.
The new chair of the Midwest Dairy Association (MDA) board of directors says communicating with consumers remains a top priority. South Dakota dairy farmer Allen Merrill tells Brownfield social media is a big part of that. “But the thing that we’re wondering about (is) what’s out there in three to five years? Is it just […]
Commentary. We visited friends in a rural area of “fly-over country” over the Labor Day holiday. We hopped in their pick-up to go check on a couple of hay fields and drove through “their” small town. Shuttered storefronts, crumbling buildings, and once grand homes fallen into disrepair reminded me of so many other small, rural […]
Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in the development and production of plant-based and cell-based alternatives to farmed meat. Although p...
Cultivated from a fast-growing micro-organism, Emergy Foods' fungi steaks may be a paradigm-shifting meat alternative. I visited the company's headquarters for a taste.
Researchers compared the protein quality, integrity and digestibility of plant-based steaks and cold cuts to their meat counterparts.
Climate change has led to decreased pollen production from plants, which could have a significant impact on food production.
Investigative journalist Katie Worth traveled the nation to learn what students in different states are taught about climate change. What she found was polit...
A recently published report highlights the importance of public funding in the area of agriculture research.
“The rules unlawfully eviscerate and abandon USDA’s responsibility to protect farmers and the environment,” said George Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety, one of the plaintiffs.
BROOKINGS, S.D. — SDSU Extension releases results of a survey which looks to answer the question, what motivates changes in land-use? “There has been moderate to extensive land use conversion activity in the Western Corn Belt, where corn and soybeans are the dominant cropland use,” explained Tong Wang, SDSU Extension Advanced Production Specialist. “To understand […]
The Food and Drug Administration says using ultra-filtered milk in U.S. cheese production is okay. The FDA released a document Wednesday called a Guidance for Industry which says the FDA’s proposed rule change would let manufacturers use ultra-filtered milk or ultra-filtered nonfat milk to make standardized cheeses and related cheese products if they choose to. […]
The alt-meat market is forecast to grow to $450 billion and make up a quarter of the $1.8 trillion meat market by 2040
Download the Fact Sheet Here Vegetarian alternatives to meat are nothing new—veggie burgers, vegan deli meat and chicken-less nuggets have been around for decades. But while these products typically have…
The comment period for the proposed organic checkoff began last week, but opinions about the idea are still very much divided in the organic community.
A new report from TEEBAgriFood provides a ground-breaking way to reframe how we look at the costs and benefits associated with our global food and agriculture systems.
For decades, policymakers have tried to ensure that small and medium-sized farms have a chance to not only survive, but thrive. Yet, with labor, financial and other challenges, farms have continued to consolidate in the U.S. with 15 percent of the crop farms controlling 80 percent of the output. Why have farms in the middle continued to decline in number? New research indicates that some of the most important indicators of farm financial success may not be the size of the farm, but the personality . . .
There's a lot of talk these days about where we get our food and how it's raised. How's our food grown? What actually happens on a farm? With so many voices ...
Craig Hill has seen it happen. He has seen the breakdown in the middle of harvest, the delay as he tries to figure out what happened, the frustration as he
Beyond Meat has opened a manufacturing facility in China, its first end-to-end plant outside the United States.
