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Tyson Foods claims that their Brazen Beef products require fewer greenhouse gases – but specifics on how they’re cutting emissions is still unclear.
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The USDA is accepting public comment on proposed updates that happen once every decade to the food packages used by participants of the Supplementary Special Nutrition Program—WIC.
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The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and other attorneys general are suing in response.
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State and federal agencies have confirmed Texas’ first case of a “highly pathogenic” avian influenza, but commercial egg and poultry operations have so far avoided outbreaks and widespread losses seen in other regions.
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Sid Miller is challenging a debt relief program that the U.S. Department of Agriculture saw as a way to correct historic discrimination. An advocate for Black Texas farmers says the challenge “pushes us back even further.”
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The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to needy families — the largest single increase in the program's history.
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A new federal program created by the Biden administration to reverse years of economic discrimination against U.S. farmers of color has ground to a halt.
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Thanks to a pair of modern day Johnny Appleseeds, landowners, government agencies and nonprofits are working in nine coastal states from Virginia to Texas to bring back longleaf pines named for the long needles prized by Native Americans for weaving baskets.