MARY CLARE JALONICK

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25 drug companies to phase out animal antibiotics

MARY CLARE JALONICK · March 26, 2014 6:24 pm

Europe makes a stink about American cheese names

MARY CLARE JALONICK · March 12, 2014 11:30 am

Europe wants its Parmesan back, seeks name change

MARY CLARE JALONICK · March 11, 2014 10:52 pm

FDA halts production at Delaware cheese plant

MARY CLARE JALONICK · March 11, 2014 6:56 pm

This photo taken June 8, 2013 shows peaches, strawberries, and snap peas are for sale at a roadside market outside Gettysburg, Pa. Pregnant women, mothers and children who get federal assistance with their grocery bills will now be able to buy more whole-grain foods, yogurt, fish, fruits and vegetables. The changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC, will go into place by next year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

USDA adds foods to moms and kids food program

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 28, 2014 9:03 pm

Company recalls 16 varieties of cheese after death

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 24, 2014 3:18 pm

1 dead, babies ill from listeria linked to cheese

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 22, 2014 12:31 am

FILE - This Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaking in the White House briefing room in Washington. The number of U.S. farms is declining even as the value of their crops and livestock has increased over the past five years, a new government census of America's agriculture says. Also, farmers are getting older _ the average age was 58.3 years. But Vilsack points to a bright spot: a small rise in the number of farmers between 25 and 34 years old. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ag census shows boom in farm sales

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 21, 2014 2:34 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2013 file photo Tom Duerst plants winter wheat at his farm near Verona, Wis. Wisconsin farmers stopped working hundreds of thousands of acres during five years of heavy farm closures that a federal report described Thursday as among the most significant in the nation. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Energy and Environment

Number of US farms declines, farmers getting older

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 21, 2014 3:24 am

This photo taken Feb. 12, 2014 shows California Olive Oil Council Executive Director Patricia Darragh posing with a collection of California olive oil at the All Things Olive shop in Washington. It's a pressing matter for the tiny U.S olive oil industry. Shoppers are more often pouring European oil _ it's cheaper and viewed as more authentic than the American competition. And that's pitting U.S. producers against importers of the European oil. Some liken the battle to the California wine industry's struggles to gain acceptance decades ago. The tiny California olive industry says European olive oil filling U.S. shelves often is mislabeled and lower grade. They're pushing the federal government to give more scrutiny to imported varieties. One congressman-farmer even goes as far as suggesting labels on imported oil say "extra rancid" rather than extra virgin. Stricter standards might help American producers grab more market share from the dominant Europeans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US olive oil producers press for import standards

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 18, 2014 8:31 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2010, file photo, a woman carries a bag containing rice donated by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, as she walks through a market in Leogane, Haiti. U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator (USAID) Rajiv Shah says changes to the way the US distributes food aid could help feed 800,000 more people abroad, many of them Syrian refugees. The changes come in a wide-ranging farm law signed by President Barack Obama last week. A recent bipartisan budget agreement would also help pay for the aid. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

USAID says new farm law to boost food aid abroad

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 11, 2014 7:45 pm

Rice recalled after skin reactions in children

MARY CLARE JALONICK · February 11, 2014 1:03 am