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**63 people have been indicted for their role in the Brazilian meat scandal and corruption in the Ministry of Agriculture. Federal auditors are accused of taking bribes in exchange for fraudulent sanitary permits. The suspects are also charged with falsifying medical records and certificates, tampering with food products, conspiracy and corruption...

**President Trump is proposing to slash the Agriculture Department’s field staff and also make deep reductions in research, rural development and international food aid. A 62-page budget summary released by the White House is skimpy on details but it calls for a $4...

Congress broke for the August recess last week leaving the Fiscal Year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill on the table which funds the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.

It has been reported by numerous media outlets (including The Tennessean and Forbes) that a popular dollar store has just purchased another popular dollar store for $8.5 BILLION dollars. This means that there's a high possibility that the larger store will adopt the price points that the other store employs: not every thing is a dollar there...