Rep. DeLauro acts on soda tax: House Appropriations chairwoman Rosa DeLauro will introduce legislation as soon as this week for an excise tax of up to 3 cents per ounce on sugary drinks. (Center for Science in the Public Interest)
More H-2B visas: With the U.S. economy recovering, the Biden administration will approve an additional 22,000 H-2B visas for seasonal non-agricultural workers, a category that includes work in landscaping and seafood and meat processing plants. (Associated Press)
Slow pork recovery: Recent outbreaks of African swine fever suggest “it may be a few more years” before China, the world’s largest pork producer and consumer, rebuilds its hog herd to its size before the viral disease struck. (FAPRI)
Animal fat diesel plant: A plant producing up to 80 million gallons a year of diesel, derived from rendered animal fat, will be built in southeastern Nebraska in a joint venture by agribusiness giant Cargill and the Love’s Family of Companies. (Farm Progress)
Climate-change coffee: A rare wild coffee plant from West Africa may be the coffee of the future; it tolerates the temperatures expected in global warming but tastes like high-quality Arabica coffees. (BBC)