Stamped on countless labels throughout the grocery store, the term "natural" is often a vague marketing gimmick at best. More than anything, the claim creates mass confusion among U.S. consumers, according...
Despite our growing ability to find a needle in the "foodborne illness" haystack, as a whole, food safety continues to show steady improvement. Foodborne illnesses reported to the Centers for Disease Control...
America wasted 31 percent of its available food supply in 2010. That's right . . .of the 430 billion pounds of food produced by American farms that eventually reached the supply chain, 133 billion pounds...
If you ever sensed that organic sales tactics didn't seem to be totally honest, objective and unbiased, then you're smarter than many consumers, according to Organic Marketing Report by Academics Review
Rising retail prices for meat, milk and other staples have become routine leads in many media reports in recent months. While it's true that food costs have gone up slightly, lost in every story we've...
Still a long road ahead of us. By Patti Hurtgen, Hoard's Dairyman Online Media Manager Based on 2014 data, 29 percent of American food consumers think food companies are trustworthy. With 44 percent neutral...
I recently read a report on "The Enough Movement" and thought I would share its findings. It addresses world hunger and looks at not only food quantity, but quality. Most often when we think of not having...
"You need science. But you never win debates on science, you win them by appealing to emotions." That recent quote from Larry Jensen, President and CEO of Leprino Foods Company, sums up the issue at hand...
Food. It's one of the most searched words online today. Consumers have an ever-growing emotional connection to it, especially among those in the millennial generation born in the 1980s and 1990s. It's...
This year marks the 50-year anniversary of President Johnson's "War on Poverty". Although he first discussed it in a January 1964 speech, the first food assistance program didn't become law until August...
Isn't the Foodini concept a way to play with the "pink slime" everyone was so upset about? Hmmmm. That's my conclusion after reading the item "3D food printing? Um, no" in the December 23 issue of Hoard's...
There is one issue with the item "Japan has feed costs you won't believe" in the December 30, 2013, Hoard's Dairyman Intel. The problem with tariff reduction is the maintenance of domestic subsidies of...
Livestock production contributes 40 percent to the world's agricultural gross domestic product, provides income for more than 1.3 billion people and represents 17 percent of global caloric intake per person...
Although the technology has barely begun, the capabilities of 3D printing are already both startling and scary. But food printing? No, and people's imaginations are being taken for a joyride to think so....
Because it has been so widely quoted, we have become numb to what was once a sobering statistic: we will need to feed 9 billion people by 2050. For many, this is not a reality we can easily wrap our heads...
Share your dairy-inspired meals with others. Dairy farmers believe in promotion. Fifteen cents from each 100 pounds of milk sold goes to the checkoff program to educate consumers and promote dairy products,...
Innovation and choice must be allowed on farm or all hope is lost. In a changing tact from the 50-70-100 message he has spread since 2009, Elanco's Jeff Simmons has three new numbers for us to consider....
A growing world calls for more conversation about feed versus food and its impact on animal agriculture and you. Animal feed versus human food. It's an increasingly important global, societal conversation....
I read your Hoard's Dairyman Intel item on the upcoming farm bill which is unlikely to ever see the light of day given the state of affairs in the House. The portion of the article, "The $36 billion food...
$36 billion. That's the gulf that divides the House and Senate on just 1 of the 12 titles in the farm bill debate. Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a nutrition package that cuts $40 billion...
