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Holiday Waste Hits the Southeast
Southeast Regional Ag News
Producers across the Southeast deserve a Thanksgiving where more of their hard work is put to use, not thrown away.
California’s Role in Thanksgiving Waste
California Ag Today
A holiday reminder to honor California producers by keeping more food out of the trash.
The Real Price of Leftovers: Fourth of July Food Waste Adds Up
Southeast Regional Ag News
With cookout costs rising, experts urge simple steps to reduce food waste at home.
Food Waste and Costs Climb After July Fourth Cookouts
California Ag Today
Americans were projected to toss 126 million pounds of food after Independence Day—at a record-high cost.
Wasting Money and Food
California Ag Today
New findings from a 2025 national survey reveal that U.S. consumers are discarding food near or past the printed date even more frequently than in 2016.
A Mega-Farm of Food Waste
California Ag Today
“If you imagine that all of our country’s surplus food is grown in one place, this mega-farm would cover an area the size of California and New York combined," says ReFED's Minnie Ringland.
Wasted Food. Lost Revenue.
Southeast Regional Ag News
Looking at the data, the United States generated 91.2 million tons of surplus food in 2023, which was 38% of total production.
Throwing Away a Third of Your Groceries
California Ag Today
“Radically inefficient” is an uncomfortable phrase when used to describe our United States food system, but it is what is being used by ReFED, a U.S.-based nonprofit working to pinch off food waste.
Fixing a "Radically Inefficient" Food System
Southeast Regional Ag News
In the United States, over a third of our food supply goes unsold or uneaten.
Turkey Talk: Eat Your Leftovers
Southeast Regional Ag News
ReFED, a national nonprofit with a focus on reducing waste in the food system, estimates that 312 million pounds of food was and is going to be wasted by Americans this year linked to the Thanksgiving holiday.
How Much Food Do You Waste?
Southeast Regional Ag News
As we work so hard in agriculture to produce food for the world and know that there is also a sector of folks right here in our own country that are food insecure, the fact that so much food is wasted is a hard pill to swallow.
Americans Waste $450 Million Worth of Food on Thanksgiving
Southeast Regional Ag News
From Shawn Shepherd of ReFED, "What we're throwing away could feed every hungry American six-and-a-half meals."