Sen. Boozman vows payback: After being frozen out of drafting the “build back better” bill that he opposes, the senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee says Democrats “have made it far more difficult to work across party lines in the future.” Arkansas Sen. John Boozman could be committee chairman during work on the 2023 farm bill if Republicans win Senate control in 2022. (FERN’s Ag Insider)
Family fought Covid-19: When all the adults in a meatpacking household in Sioux City tested positive for Covid-19 in 2020, they turned to relatives “to run errands, bring them medicine and distract them from the fact that they had a disease that had killed thousands” in Iowa. (Iowa Public Radio)
‘No’ to California’s humane standards: Seaboard Foods, a hog farmer and pork processor, “will no longer sell certain whole pork products into California” because they do not meet the standards set by Prop 12, said a spokesman; Hormel Foods said it would fully comply with Prop 12. (Reuters)
NYC sugar warnings: The New York City Council voted, 43-5, to require restaurants to put warnings on their menus of foods with high amounts of added sugar. (WNYW-TV)
Missouri farmland soars: Top-quality farmland in Missouri is worth $6,236 an acre, up by 14 percent in one year, according to a university survey of ag lenders, rural appraisers and farmers. (Missouri Extension)