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FDA Relaxes Alcohol Regs for Sanitizer

The move expands the market to potentially millions of gallons made by ethanol producers.

In this Jan. 6, 2015 file photo steam blows over the Green Plains ethanol plant in Shenandoah, Iowa. As hospitals and nursing homes run out of hand sanitizer to fight off the coronavirus, struggling ethanol producers are eager to help. They could provide alcohol to make millions of gallons of the germ-killing sanitizer, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put up a roadblock, frustrating both the health care and ethanol industries with its inflexible regulations during a national health care crisis.

Ethanol Plants Try to Resupply Hand Sanitizer

Regulators are preventing ethanol producers from providing millions of gallons of alcohol that could be transformed into the germ-killing mixture.

Leader of Nonprofits to Head World Food Prize

The $250,000 World Food Prize is given to individuals who work to improve food security in hopes of ending world hunger.

In this Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after being given a letter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. China's trade with the United States fell by double digits again in September amid a tariff war that threatens to tip the global economy into recession.

China Truce Leaves Issues for Later

Nothing's on paper and details are scarce.

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Unions Sue USDA to Halt Pork Processing Rule

"Increasing pork plant line speeds not only is a reckless giveaway to giant corporations, it will put thousands of workers in harm's way," said a union spokesperson.

Slaughter Rules Mean More Safety Tasks

Some are slamming new regulations that place responsibilities once held by federal inspectors in the hands of meat company employees.

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Trump Escapes Blame for Ethanol Policy

Corn production has nearly doubled in the past 30 years, and without an ever-larger ethanol market farmers fear demand could plunge.

Vegetable Seed Developer Wins World Food Prize

His name is Groot. He's a guardian of high-quality seeds for tropical environments.

How US Farmers Are Hit By Tariffs

China's vast consumer market has been a vital source of revenue for American farmers.

Egg Farm Sues Over Bird Flu Damage

The company lost more than 4 million chickens.

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Law on Undercover Workers Struck Down

The Iowa law made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation.

In this May 8, 2018, photo, a Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa. Small family operated organic dairy farms with cows freely grazing on verdant pastures are going out of business while large confined animal operations with thousands of animals lined up in assembly-line fashion are expanding. Many traditional small-scale organic farmers are fighting to stay in business by appealing to consumers to look closely at the organic milk they buy to make sure it comes from a farm that meets the idyllic expectations portrayed on the cartons.

Organic Farmers Vow to Compete

The dairy industry, like much of U.S. farming, has trended toward fewer but larger farms since the 1980s.