• Austin food desert just got a little drier [Tribune]
• USDA nominally contrite about beef recall debacle [NYTimes]
• San Antonio, of all places, has nation’s best food bank [S. Antonio Bus. Jour.]
• “Agri-flation” (hot!) with us for the long haul (not hot) [CNNMoney]
• It’s affecting the PLA too, and they’re getting Maoist about it [Xinhua]
