Reconsider those eggs (New York Times): More than 200 million eggs were recalled from one of Rose Acre Farm’s North Carolina facilities due to a salmonella outbreak. Rose Acre is the second-largest egg producer in the country.
Wisconsin’s despairing dairy industry (Journal Sentinel): Five hundred dairy farms were shuttered in Wisconsin last year, and so far this year, 150 more have sold off their herds. The number of dairy farms in the state is now 20 percent lower than it was five years ago, in part due to falling milk prices.
Oil giants seek ethanol waiver (Reuters): Sources say Chevron and Exxon Mobil have asked the EPA for a hardship waiver from the ethanol mandate usually given only to small-volume refiners trying to stay afloat financially.
Vilsack joins Rural Forward (Quad City Times): Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is part of a new effort to reach rural voters, who backed President Trump in landslide numbers in 2016, with a Democratic message.
Fallout for Starbucks from profiling incident (Associated Press): The CEO of Starbucks visited Philadelphia over the weekend, as local activists protested at one of the chain’s locations where two black men were arrested after employees alleged they were trespassing.
Armyworms chew through Kenyan crops (Daily Nation): Grain farmers in the grain basket of Kenya face heavy crop losses from an invasion of the fall armyworm.
Ag negotiator joins consulting firm (PRWeek): Darci Vetter, chief U.S. agricultural negotiator during the Obama administration, will be general manager for public affairs in the Washington office of the communications company Edelman.