NEXT reports on the fastest-growing small food businesses for 2026, highlighting trends like functional foods, global flavors ...

After the COVID-19 pandemic, USDA set up programs to enhance regional food systems. Now, businesses that received awards to expand their businesses face uncertainty due to a federal funding freeze.

Food isn’t just fuel, it’s comfort, it’s memory, it’s connection. I’ve never been one for strict diets (life’s too short), ...

Though they have fewer levers to pull when navigating economic headwinds, independent and small specialty food retailers are effectively adapting to weather dual storms of ongoing inflation and ...

That tension-filled triangle of food industry pillars was put in sharp focus in a recent Wall Street Journal report that described how the multiparty tussle contributes to rising grocery prices. As ...

AMHERST — Kate Minifie is laser-focused on food safety, because contamination — or any food-related threat to public health — could not only make people sick, it also might destroy her business.

Promising a return to “fiscally responsible initiatives,” the Agriculture Department ended two Biden-era programs that paid farmers to provide food to schools and low-income families. By Julie ...