Michael Hirtzer

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A grocery store shelf shows customers are limited to 10 cartons of eggs

U.S. to boost egg imports and farm relief as prices soar on bird flu

By Michael Hirtzer, Josh Wingrove, and others

Screenshot of the recalled John Deere tractor.

John Deere issues largest tractor recall in 20 years over failing brakes

By Michael Hirtzer and Bloomberg

John May stands in front of a gray background with green tractors.

Deere is scrapping some DEI measures after online conservative outcry—and allegations of rampant hiring discrimination

By Simone Foxman, Michael Hirtzer, and others

Assortment of butter

Butter prices jump to all-time high as more dairy producers shift to cheese while bird flu keeps U.S. output tight

By Michael Hirtzer and Bloomberg

Tyson says beef, pork and chicken are ‘experiencing market challenges’ a month after company layoffs and plant closures

By Michael Hirtzer and Bloomberg

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 21: John R. Tyson, EVP, Strategy and Chief Sustainability Officer, Tyson Foods; speaks on stage during The Fight for Food: Value Chains and Partnerships at The 2022 Concordia Annual Summit – Day 3 at Sheraton New York on September 21, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)

Tyson Foods executive found sleeping in a stranger’s home while allegedly intoxicated has the board’s ‘continued confidence in his ability to lead’

By Michael Hirtzer and Bloomberg

John R. Tyson

The Tyson Foods CFO and heir who was reportedly found asleep in a stranger’s bed and arrested for public intoxication says he’s ’embarrassed’

By Michael Hirtzer, Elizabeth Elkin, and others

A Material Sales towboat docked on the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri, US, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Shipments along the Mississippi, Illinois, Ohio and Arkansas rivers declined in the week ending June 25 from the previous week, according to the USDA’s weekly grain transportation report. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A low Mississippi River is about to deepen Europe’s energy crisis

By Elizabeth Elkin, Will Wade, and others

A shopper checks a loaf of bread inside a grocery store

The world’s wheat farmers are coming to the rescue to bring skyhigh food prices down to earth

By Kim Chipman, Michael Hirtzer, and others

A plate of buffalo chicken wings

Restaurants scramble to serve enough chicken wings ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

By Leslie Patton, Michael Hirtzer, and others

Lunar New Year treats

Lunar New Year treats will cost more this year due to wheat drought in the Northwest

By Michael Hirtzer, Jasmine Ng, and others

FOXBORO, MA – OCTOBER 19-SATURDAY: Justin Ward, of Beaton’s Cranberry Growers Service in Wareham, checks the quality of cranberries as they are pumped out of a bog and sprayed with high-pressure water that separates the berries from unwanted material during Ocean Spray’s Fall Harvest Celebration October 19, 2019, in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald)

Why canned cranberries may be in short supply this Thanksgiving

By Michael Hirtzer and Edward Ludlow

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2011/08/31: Chicken in a chicken coop on a farm in the Catskills near Windham in New York State, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Perdue Farms is testing mobile solar-powered houses for chicken coops

By Michael Hirtzer and Bloomberg

Packages of “Impossible Burger” and “Beyond Meat” sit on a shelf for sale on November 15, 2019 in New York City. – Vegetarian alternatives to burgers and sausages, revived by start-ups like Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger, are enjoying a certain enthusiasm that meat giants also want to enjoy. Since this summer, the world leader in the JBS sector has been marketing a soy burger in Brazil that includes beetroot, garlic and onions, with a look similar to a rare minced steak. In the US, the largest meat producer Tyson Foods launched a new line of products in June based on plants or mixing meat and vegetables. Its competitors Hormel Foods, Perdue Farms or Smithfield, have similar initiatives. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Meat giant Tyson Foods enters the competitive plant-based market again—this time with a line of vegan meat products

By Michael Hirtzer, Deena Shanker, and others

Farmer Dave Burrier plants corn in the Marvin Chapel field in Mount Airy, Maryland on May 19, 2020. – Dave Burrier steered his tractor through a field, following a GPS map as he tried to plant as much corn as possible amid the yellow and green rye covering the ground. Striving to get a massive yield out of his crops in rural Maryland is how Burrier hopes to make it through yet another uncertain year, beset by market disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed trade tensions between the United States and China. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

China is already scooping up U.S. corn from the next harvest

By Isis Almeida, Michael Hirtzer, and others