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Continuing Resolution will extend the Farm Bill into late 2025
Congress rolled out the $31 billion disaster package on Tuesday, which includes a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill through September 2025. Since the Farm Bill, with its numerous parts, including food stamps for the…
Outbreak traced to Grimmway Farms carrots declared over with 48 sick and one dead
The CDC has declared that an outbreak of E. coli O121:H19 infections traced to carrots from Grimmway Farms has ended. A total of 48 people were confirmed as victims in the outbreak. Patients were spread across 19 states.…
U.S. representative says response from Boar’s Head about Listeria outbreak is a fluff piece
Calling it a corporate dodge, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro has released a response that Boar’s Head provided to questions she sent the company in the wake of a deadly listeria outbreak. The outbreak killed at least 10 people and…
Analysis: Port strike or no port strike?
Is it game over for U.S. East Coast port employers? That was the initial feeling when President-elect Donald Trump publicly backed the International Longshoremen’s Association in its bitter fight to keep container automation…
Bustling California Ports to Close 2024 With Record Volumes
The Port of Los Angeles is set for its busiest December on record, and the Port of Long Beach is on track to have its best-ever year after the hubs handled an early and sustained peak season.
Oysters from Canada recalled because of outbreak of norovirus infections
S&M Shellfish Co. of San Francisco, CA, has issued a recall for certain oysters harvested from British Columbia, Canada, because of a norovirus outbreak. The oysters were sold as Fanny Bay, Buckley Bay and Royal Miyagi…
Volkswagen Purchases Stake in Lithium Firm for $48 Million
Volkswagen Group will spend C$69 million ($48.1 million) on a 9.9% stake in lithium miner Patriot Battery Metals to secure raw materials for electric vehicles.
NHTSA Retreats From Massive ARC Air Bag Recall
DETROIT — U.S. auto safety regulators have backed away from seeking a giant recall of nearly 50 million air bag inflators and will investigate further after auto industry comments.
Judge OKs sale of Yellow terminals to Estes, R+L Carriers
Two separate purchase agreements representing $192.5 million of Yellow Corp.’s real estate were blessed by a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware on Wednesday. Richmond, Virginia-based less-than-truckload carrier Estes is…
Integration will cure the bottleneck for AI in logistics
As generative AI rapidly transforms from a novelty into a necessary tool, it presents extraordinary opportunities for growth and improvement in logistics – but only if freight companies can feed their AI language models with…
