Operation Safe Summer and 4th of July Food Prices Unchanged
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**Florida’s Ag Commissioner Wilton Simpson announced results from the first week of “Operation Safe Summer.”
“Operation Safe Summer” included inspections of hemp retailers and manufacturers in 20 Florida counties and removed nearly 11,000 packages of hemp products for violations of child-protection standards for packaging, labeling, and marketing.
Simpson says we have drawn a hard line in Florida when it comes to protecting our children from dangerous and deceptive hemp products.
**Following a week of immigration whiplash, President
Trump's border czar Tom Homan confirmed worksite enforcement operation will continue in the agriculture and hospitality industries.
Asked what he would tell farmers concerned the raids will hurt the industry, Homan says, "first, there are legal programs that bring farm workers in. Second, just because Congress failed to address this problem, doesn't mean we ignore it. It's illegal to knowingly hire an illegal alien.
**Families celebrating the Fourth of July continue to find high prices at the grocery store, based on the 2025 American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual market basket survey.
This year’s cookout for ten people will cost $70.92, down only 30 cents from last year’s record-high, and the second-highest cost since Farm Bureau began the survey in 2013.
The survey shows an increase in the cost of beef, potato salad, and pork and beans.
