Several papers and studies conducted by Indian scientists were presented to highlight the bottlenecks in making contract farming feasible to cater to the corporate food chains and supermarkets that would suffuse the retail market in the next five years. The government was creating an enabling environment for investment in agribusiness and for strengthening backwards and forward linkages through various policy and regulatory means, said Union Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar while...

READ MORE: Food and Drug Administration The USDA and FDA announced today that meat from hogs fed melamine-tainted "salvaged" pet food would not be approved for human consumption, indirectly raising the specter of a much wider contamination of the nation's pork and chicken supply. READ MORE: Food and Drug Administration The USDA and FDA announced today that meat from hogs fed melamine-tainted "salvaged" pet food would not be approved for human consumption, indirectly raising the specter of...

Farmers face higher fuel costs and higher feed costs for their livestock. Some of this year's increase will mean fewer acres of other crops, including soybeans, wheat, barley, dry beans, sugar beets and flaxseed. Despite farmers' corn intentions, the weather has reminded everyone that nothing in farming comes easy. The economics of farming mean that not everyone will be rolling in cash after the harvest. Blogs This is what Wyoming is Saying. Some crops still will be increased, including...

The one positive thing to come from all this is that it has raised our awareness of the need to monitor these overseas as well as domestic food sources. What procedures you plan to put in place to test food and feed products coming in from overseas, especially countries with lax food safety standards; And recently after news broke of the pet food contamination, Americans may have been surprised to learn that this is even true for dog and cat food. It is unconscionable that America does not...

Every day seems to bring a new study touting the latest food or diet fad, each promising to help you live a longer, healthier life. Would you prefer butter or margarine on your biscuit? Butter is an animal product and it contains cholesterol - about 10 percent of the USDA recommended daily allowance in a tablespoon. Sugar-free foods may indeed be made without sugar, but they can still be packed with carbohydrates. The USDA recommends eating no less than the fewest number of recommended...

The nutrition guideline program encompasses beverages, snacks and food products vended at business and industry client locations serviced by VMI member companies. VMI conducted a detailed review of nearly 2,000 products commonly available in vending machines and created a directory of products that meet our guidelines. This issue is being addressed by producing food items that meet the guidelines in the companies' own commissaries based on recipes developed by the dietitian. Vending Market...