food News Updates

The U.N.'s index of food-commodity prices rose 0.6% in July from the previous month, led by grain, sugar and vegetable oils, according to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Employees at the technology giant find themselves repeatedly explaining that they work at the Cisco with a “C,” while staffers at the nation’s largest food distributor clarify that they’re employed by Sysco with an “S.”

Companies that produce and sell fresh food, school supplies and anything that gets shipped using fuel reported cost impacts from an earlier spike in energy prices after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.

The deal is the latest example of European snack makers looking to the U.S. for growth in packaged food.

As the deadly New World screwworm spreads through Texas, posing significant risk to the U.S. cattle herd, experts are still wondering how it got there.

Four cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed on the same Texas property, marking the largest cluster of detections to be reported in the U.S.

The nation’s largest supermarket operator said June 18 that same-store sales grew 1% excluding fuel.

While the screwworm doesn’t affect food safety, it poses a risk to the U.S. cattle industry, as drought and high production costs have culled the nation’s herd to a 75-year low.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sought to reassure senators that the screwworm outbreak is under control and not a threat to the country’s food supply.

Consumers on average paid $7.064 for a pound of ground beef in May, slightly higher than the previous month but up 13% from a year earlier.