Food inflation is up: With higher meat prices a factor, food costs rose 2.6 percent in the past 12 months, the highest annualized rate since 2.6 percent in January, said the monthly CPI report. (Department of Labor)
Advice on meat is ‘concerning’: The suggestion by the Dietary Guidelines advisory committee that Americans eat more legumes and less red and processed meat “is concerning, given that beef is a nutrient-rich food” that is part of a balanced diet, said the senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee. (Sen. Boozman)
Bird flu in Nevada: A dairy herd in Nye County, in south-central Nevada, was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus, making the state the 16th with an infected herd. Nationwide, 774 herds have been infected this year, 559 of them in California. (USDA)
RFK Jr. wanted Miller: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for HHS secretary, hoped to see “a like-minded disrupter” at the USDA but was too late in recommending Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller for Agriculture secretary. (Wall Street Journal)