Food & Services

Across Ukraine, farmers are navigating mines, traversing bombed bridges and risking dangerous maneuvers at overworked ports to circumvent a Russian blockade and get their grains to a world desperate for them.

As part of a broader push to tackle consolidation in the meatpacking industry, the USDA is proposing new rules requiring poultry companies to be more transparent about how farmers are paid.

Among the tactics: calculate your personal inflation rate and buy the car you’re leasing.

Europe is particularly vulnerable to a global shortfall of the fuel as imports from Russia are expected to slump when sanctions tighten.

The grocery-delivery company, which confidentially filed for an IPO this week, is positioning itself to go public as early as September.

The grocery delivery company, which got a boost during the pandemic, recently slashed its valuation as growth has slowed.

Wet and cool weather in key parts of the Midwest has left farmers with just days to get their crops in the ground at a time when global grain supplies are already under pressure.

Americans paid less for gasoline but more for groceries and air travel last month.

The stores that are closing are located in Alabama, California, Massachusetts and Chicago, according to Whole Foods.

With war in Ukraine upending global grain trade, other countries scramble to fill the gap in supplies, but soaring prices threaten to worsen food insecurity in poor regions.

Startups are pitching alternative fertilizers for crops as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly option amid rising costs for farmers.

Two of the world’s biggest convenience-store chains are discussing a deal that would value British retailer EG Group at roughly $16 billion or more including debt, people familiar with the matter said.

With dozens of countries hungry for the grain, Brazilian scientists bank on tropical wheat expansion.

The extent of damage to some farms, together with port disruption and a shortage of fertilizer, demonstrates how the war’s impact on Ukraine’s agriculture industry could extend well into next year.

How shoppers can navigate grocery aisles during the highest inflation in decades

Corn farmers and ethanol makers look for a bump in demand from summertime E15 sales, but chicken producers fear higher grain costs.

Albertsons, the second-largest U.S. supermarket chain, said it is gaining market share as it manages inflation. Kroger and other supermarkets report higher sales.

Residents across China bracing for the prospect of Shanghai-like lockdowns raid supermarket shelves as Omicron cases spread.

War has hammered the country’s globally important farming sector, and left one poultry plant with a dangerous cleanup.

The grocery-delivery company rode a pandemic boom to become the biggest grocery-delivery app. Now with competition mounting, it is trying to forge its future.