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If you buy nearly two billion pounds of beef a year — an on-the-hoof equivalent of seven million cattle — you’d think you’d get the best deal ever from your suppliers. Think again, says McDonald’s.

Richard Lyons of Harvel is the recipient of the 2024 Illinois Leopold Conservation Award.

A new Land Use Change Initiative is leading efforts to resolve inconsistencies in definitions, metrics and methodologies for quantifying land use change.

Three central Illinois farm families were honored for their conservation agriculture efforts.

Indiana Pork and Legacy Farms hosted two pork buyers from McDonald’s Japan on their recent visit to Fair Oaks Farms and Belstra Milling.

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month, has died.

AI is all the buzz these days. But artificial insemination is not the AI getting all the attention these days. The AI most are talking about and experimenting with is artificial intelligence.

Dairy Management Inc., which manages the national dairy checkoff program, announced significant outcomes in 2023 on behalf of America’s dairy farmers and importers.

A new dairy checkoff growth program with pizza partners is expected to drive an additional 12-plus million pounds of cheese use.

McDonald’s, the world’s largest restaurant chain, is not only a large end user of pork, but also a net exporter of “The Other White Meat.”

The news of JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company, getting out of the plant-based protein market caught my eye. This story, reported by The Denver Business News, noted that JBS started Planterra two years ago.

Applications are being accepted until March 10 for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association 2023 Environmental Stewardship Award.

McDonald’s, Purdue University and other partners celebrated the return of the popular McRib sandwich, which will be available through Nov. 20. The sandwich includes a pork patty, homestyle bun, McRib sauce, pickle slices and onions.

A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

McDonald’s ended 2021 on a high note with U.S. customers spending more and fewer restaurant closures in Europe from coronavirus restrictions.

McDonald’s is expanding sales of its meatless McPlant burger to hundreds of locations. The company said the McPlant — which it co-developed with plant-based protein company Beyond Meat — will be sold at 600 stores in the San Francisco and Dallas areas starting Feb. 14.

Checkoff foodservice partners continued to grow sales of U.S. dairy foods and more domestic dairy headed into the international marketplace. There also were increased efforts to connect with the valued Gen Z consumer and dairy’s sustainability journey reached new levels.

Applications are being accepted until March 11 for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association 2022 Environmental Stewardship Award.

McDonald’s reported stronger-than-expected sales in the third quarter, boosted by larger orders and higher prices on the menu.

McDonald’s is raising pay at 650 company-owned stores in the United States as part of its push to hire thousands of new workers in a tight labor market.

As America emerges from the pandemic, it’s heading to McDonald’s.

McDonald’s is back on track in the United States and other key markets, but still seeing a sales drag from coronavirus restrictions in other parts of the world.