45.8% of FDA recalls in 2025 were linked to allergen mislabeling. Food and beverage supply chains grow more complex. Modern packaging carries a lot of operational weight. It's a collection of regulatory requirements, supplier information, marketing claims, nutritional data, ingredient statements, and packaging workflows. Most of these failures happen because packaging data is fragmented across disconnected workflows, spreadsheets, PDFs and email approvals.

The U.S. Agricultural Research Service shuttering Maryland's Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in late April and plans to relocate its programming elsewhere in the country. The center’s bee research lab is a global leader in bee health research and supports American beekeepers through free testing, disease management, and the development of pest control techniques. The closure follows a few challenging years for beekeepers, who lost around 60 percent of their colonies nationwide in 2024 and early 2025 to viruses spread by varroa mites. The Trump administration fired thousands of USDA employees.

As the U.S. faces an aging farmer population, communities are looking for ways to shore up the next generation of growers. The Great Lakes Incubator Farm in Traverse City, Michigan, offers a seven-month farm training program. It focuses on regenerative agriculture, a method of farming that focuses on soil health and reduces the amount of heat-trapping gases released into the atmosphere.

Bazile Minogiizhigaabo Panek is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Indigenous peoples have harvested wild rice in the upper Midwest for millennia. The manoomin that once abounded in the region has been declining due to factors like changing land use and global warming. Some recent efforts to identify, protect and restore northern wild rice have shown success.

Residents of North Bellport and Brookhaven, Long Island are concerned about groundwater contamination from a nearby landfill. The contamination plume extends roughly 8,000 feet southeast from the landfill. It has spread to the groundwater beneath homes and roadways and discharges into the Beaver Dam Creek. The groundwater contains high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) above New York’s standards for groundwater.

Climate change is increasing the chance of simultaneous droughts across major producing regions. Global trade works best when shocks are scattered. It works far less well when the places that are supposed to balance one another are all under pressure at once. Modern agriculture does not simply rely on favorable climate conditions. It also relies on a continuous, coordinated flow of manufactured inputs arriving in the right place at the right time.

Willis Nelson is a fourth-generation Louisiana farmer. He is concerned about the impact the president's tariffs and war with Iran have had on his family's farm and his concerns about its future. The row crop farmer said rising fuel and fertilizer prices have already done irreversible damage to his farm.

Emmanuel Macron's speech on 21 May commemorated the 25th anniversary of the passing of the Taubira law, which recognised slavery as a crime against humanity. Martinique and Guadeloupe are contaminated with traces of chlordecone, a toxic pesticide used extensively on banana plantations. The French Caribbean records some of the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world. The same concentration of economic influence that once defended the plantation system continued to shape political decisions centuries after abolition. Wealth and commercial power remain concentrated in the hands of a small number of families whose fortunes can be traced back to colonial era.