How Four Years of Biden Reshaped Food and Farming
https://civileats.com/2025/01/15/how-four-years-of-biden-reshaped-food-and-farming/
Biden’s agricultural climate spending among first programs hit by freeze on climate funding
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/01/bidens-agricultural-climate-spending-among-first-programs-hit-by-freeze-on-climate-funding-00200105
Scottish Wildlife Trust briefing: Starting with the basics - an in-depth look at the potential of Scotland’s farm payments to help tackle the nature and climate crisis
https://www.stopclimatechaos.scot/scottish-wildlife-trust-briefing-starting-with-the-basics-an-in-depth-look-at-the-potential-of-scotlands-farm-payments-to-help-tackle-the-nature-and-climate-c/
Climate-driven changes have already threatened more than half of Central Europe's productive agricultural landscape
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-climate-driven-threatened-central-europe.html
India's farm sector grapples with falling yields to climate change
https://www.livemint.com/industry/agriculture/agriculture-sector-india-gdp-union-budget-digital-transformation-rural-development-water-management-food-security-11736851340584.html
Climate Change a Growing Threat to Pakistan’s Agriculture Sector
https://wenewsenglish.pk/climate-change-threat-to-pakistans-agriculture/
Climate change cooks up Japanese ‘cabbage shock’
https://www.digitaljournal.com/life/climate-change-cooks-up-japanese-cabbage-shock/article
Food security in the face of climate change
https://themalaysianreserve.com/2025/01/23/food-security-in-the-face-of-climate-change/
Starmer’s failures on food security ‘raise risk of civil unrest’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/24/starmers-failures-food-security-risk-of-civil-unrest/
Study: Invasion of Ukraine Disrupts Global Food Supply, Calls for Alternative Grain Routes
https://www.seedworld.com/europe/2025/01/21/study-invasion-of-ukraine-disrupts-global-food-supply-calls-for-alternative-grain-routes/
China shifting food sourcing away from the West with trade disruptions on the horizon
https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/china-shifting-food-sourcing-away-from-the-west-with-trade-disruptions-on-the-horizon
2025 Trends in Food and Beverage Defined by Tariffs
https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/102772-2025-trends-in-food-and-beverage-defined-by-tariffs
Brooke Rollins says she'll shield farmers from impacts of Trump's tariffs in ag secretary nomination hearing
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/23/brooke-rollins-trump-agriculture-secretary-texas/
Dems ask Trump USDA pick who will do 'backbreaking' farming amid mass deportations
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-ask-trump-usda-pick-who-do-backbreaking-farming-amid-mass-deportations
Trump ag secretary nominee says food issues from mass deportations are ‘hypothetical’
https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/24/trump-ag-secretary-nominee-says-food-issues-from-mass-deportations-are-hypothetical/
California Farm Bureau Reports Kern County Immigration Sweep Halts Citrus Harvest
https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/63935-california-farm-bureau-reports-kern-county-immigration-sweep-halts-citrus-harvest
U.S. agriculture reliant on migrant labor, Kansas farmers cite lack of local labor
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/u-s-agriculture-reliant-on-migrant-labor-kansas-farmers-cite-lack-of-local-labor
Farming without borders: The migrant workers powering US agriculture
https://www.kansan.com/news/farming-without-borders-the-migrant-workers-powering-us-agriculture/article_dcb22cd6-d920-11ef-aa90-37ffdd582103.html
Will U.S. citizens replace migrants on the meatpacking line? Um, no.
https://thefern.org/blog_posts/ferns-friday-feed-will-u-s-citizens-replace-migrants-on-the-meatpacking-line-um-no/
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
https://www.aei.org/articles/president-trumps-usda-should-fix-food-stamp-work-requirement-waivers/
As Trump Nominees Back SNAP and Medicaid Work Requirements, Report Shows Harms
https://www.commondreams.org/news/snap-work-requirements
New federal block on SNAP reimbursement program being felt in Ohio
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/investigates/new-federal-block-on-snap-reimbursement-program-being-felt-in-ohio/
New GOP bill may bar SNAP recipients from buying junk food: What to know
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/01/new-gop-bill-may-bar-snap-recipients-from-buying-junk-food-what-to-know.html
MAHA? Junk Food and Seed Oil Lobbyist Tapped for Top USDA Position
https://readsludge.com/2025/01/23/maha-junk-food-and-seed-oil-lobbyist-tapped-for-top-usda-position-2/
Kids’ Exposure To Junk Food Ads Remains High Despite Fewer Commercials
https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/kids-exposure-to-junk-food-ads-remains-high.html
Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With Autism, ADHD
https://www.sciencealert.com/increased-toxicity-risk-identified-for-children-with-autism-adhd
Minnesota Just Became the First State to Target Plastic Chemicals in Food
https://www.foodandwine.com/minnesota-bill-sf188-phthalate-testing-packaged-foods-8777895
More ‘forever chemical’ protections needed for Colorado farmlands and food
https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/01/23/forever-chemical-colorado-farmlands/
Trump administration ends plan to limit 'forever chemicals' in water
https://www.azfamily.com/video/2025/01/23/trump-administration-ends-plan-limit-forever-chemicals-water/
'Forever chemicals' (PFAS) may weaken immune function in children, leading to more frequent infections
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/forever-chemicals-pfas-infections-children/
Study finds concerning new subset of 'forever chemicals' making their way into drinking water: 'That's all going to make its way to a wastewater treatment plant'
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/forever-chemicals-pfas-medications-wastewater/
Bacteria found to eat forever chemicals -- and even some of their toxic byproducts
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250123163111.htm
Crops could thrive with less fertilizer if they make more microbial friends
https://www.science.org/content/article/crops-could-thrive-less-fertilizer-if-they-make-more-microbial-friends
High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/20/uk-agriculture-farming-fertilisers-yields-biodiversity-study-park-grass-pollinators-bees-wildflowers-aoe
Innovative process converts urine into slow-release crystal fertilizer
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-urine-crystal-fertilizer.html
O’Brien County Dairy Fined for Manure Spill and Fish Kill
https://northwestiowanow.com/news/278872-obrien-county-dairy-fined-for-manure-spill-and-fish-kill/
Meet the new neighbors: 7.5 million chickens and their mountains of manure
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395967/iowa-factory-farm-pollution-sacrifice-state
134M poultry and counting: Interactive charts show hardest-hit counties in bird flu crisis
https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/21/134m-poultry-and-counting-interactive-charts-show-hardest-hit-counties-in-bird-flu-crisis/
Egg supply 'strained' by bird flu as shortage frustrates Americans at grocery stores
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/egg-supply-strained-bird-flu-shortage-frustrates-americans-grocery-stores
Egg prices 2025: Growing bird flu outbreak causing shortages, higher prices
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/bird-flu-egg-prices-avian-influenza-trump
Trump pick for USDA secretary says she has ‘a lot to learn’ about bird flu
https://www.swiowanewssource.com/atlantic/article_b8550e8e-da6b-11ef-b6f9-cb450aa0e77e.html
How would RFK Jr. handle bird flu? His record on vaccines has experts on edge
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5254733/rfk-vaccine-bird-flu-trump-cabinet-picks
As bird flu becomes a growing threat, Moderna is awarded $590M to develop mRNA pandemic influenza vaccines
https://fortune.com/well/article/bird-flu-vaccine-moderna-mrna-pandemic-influenza-immunization/
The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-has-bird-flu-vaccines-heres-why-you-cant-get-one/
Possible evidence of bird flu vaccinations driving virus evolution
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-evidence-bird-flu-vaccinations-virus.html
Age of the panzootic: scientists warn of more devastating diseases jumping between species
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/age-of-the-panzootic-scientists-warn-of-more-devastating-diseases-jumping-between-species-aoe