Pandemic amplifies food shortages (FEWS.NET): Some 94 million people around the world will need food assistance this year, up 25 percent from 2019, as the coronavirus pandemic and steps taken to slow its spread “are likely to further increase the magnitude and severity of acute food insecurity.”
Carryout chicken sales recover (Reuters): Although Americans are staying at home, they are ordering so much carryout chicken that sales are back at pre-pandemic levels, said Pilgrim’s Pride, a poultry company.
P-EBT ends with the school year (Bread): The anti-hunger group Bread for the World is running an internet campaign asking Congress to extend the P-EBT — Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer — program through the summer to help low-income families buy food for their school-age children.
Corn prices tumble worldwide (IGC): Sagging demand by U.S. ethanol makers and larger supplies in South America combined to pull down the International Grains Council index of global corn prices by 12 percent in the past month.
States ask for dicamba restrictions (DTN/Progressive Farmer): The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials, composed of state regulators, asked the EPA to consider a ban on post-emergence use of dicamba to reduce the risk of damage to neighboring fields.