The World Cocoa Foundation has launched a new program to address the threat climate change poses to cocoa sustainability.

Cargill announced it is eliminating 20 percent of shared-class antibiotics from its four feed yards in Texas, Kansas and Colorado, and four additional feed yards operated by Friona Industries.

APHIS released a preliminary epidemiology report for the highly pathogenic avian influenza and low pathogenic avian influenza cases in Indiana.

This week, President Obama signed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act.

Globally, a third of all food is lost or wasted between the farm and fork.

Ten bird flocks in Indiana tested positive for avian influenza, though the virus confirmed in these birds is a different strain than the one that decimated the US poultry industry last year, wiping out some 48 million turkeys and chickens.

The early-release tables will be in MS Excel format and posted to the Office of the Chief Economist's (OCE) website.

Risks are greatest for poor and tropical regions with local product availability, price increases and interrupted transport conduits at stake.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) continues to prepare for the potential return of highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Marking World Food Day Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called hunger a “terrible injustice” and reaffirmed the global community’s commitment to work together to end hunger.