A new study from Johns Hopkins finds methods of storing poultry litter do not eliminate antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, which may contaminate food supplies and the environment.

Food & Water Watch says a rebirth of small slaughterhouses would benefit small communities, help farmers process sustainably raised livestock, and satisfy growing consumer demand for healthy meat.

Newly released USDA survey data show rapid growth in farmers markets from 2000-2005.  Availability of organic products, urban location and the WIC Farmers Market Nutrition Program offered a substantial boost in sales.

A USDA report helps illuminate the reasons behind the organic supply squeeze, and looks at other emerging issues in a rapidly changing industry.

Some say the aquaculture industry has no place in sustainable food production. Others are striving to make it more sustainable and seeking an organic standard for aquaculture.

The USDA explores the driving forces behind large scale U.S. livestock production, and the associated environmental and public health risks.

"Despite 20 years of research and 13 years of commercialization, genetic engineering has failed to significantly increase U.S. crop yields,” according to a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The U.S. food system could be made more climate-friendly by converting to a more sustainable agriculture and making the system more localized, according to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

A new report from the Post Carbon Institute says "the U.S. food system rests on an unstable foundation of massive fossil fuel inputs. It must be reinvented in the face of declining fuel stocks."

University of Iowa researchers become the first to document MRSA in U.S. swine and swine workers.

Flies may be spreading drug-resistant bacteria from poultry operations and may increase the potential for human exposure to drug-resistant bacteria.

Changes in dietary patterns are presented as one way to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.