…from temperate regions for much of its grain, feed, and meat supplies. With the recent growth of the food processing sector, Colombian manufacturers rely heavily on global imports of raw-materials…
Safe Trade Allowed to Continue in the Event African Swine Fever
…by-products and meat to continue trade in approved disease-free zones in the event of an ASF outbreak. This builds on Canada and U.S. zoning arrangements entered into by CFIA and…
New Agricultural Video Series to Train the Next Generation Debuts
…robotics. Some of the vegetable crops that are highlighted in the agricultural video series include conventional and organic processing tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce and other leafy greens, onions, and sweet corn. …
Four-Alarm Fire Causes Major Damage to Blue Diamond Growers Facility
…Sacramento Fire Department’s initial investigation, the fire at the almond processing facility was likely caused by industrial heating processes used at the plant. “Blue Diamond continues to cooperate fully with…
USDA Inspection Rates to Increase 10%
…year more than half of the Agricultural Marketing Service’s rates for voluntary grading, inspection, certification, auditing, and laboratory services for a variety of agricultural commodities including meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables,…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 04-26-19
…is making it easier to transfer land, a study that says red meat has a safe shelf life of seven weeks and get an update on the recent ag trade…
Central Valley Meat Company Acquires Harris Ranch Beef
…the acquisition will make Central Valley Meat Holding Company the seventh largest beef packer and processing operation in the country. According to an announcement by the two companies, Harris Ranch…
California Almond Acreage Increases in 2018
…it takes to grow a pound of almonds by 33%ii. In addition to achievements in the orchard, on the processing side there have been zero outbreaks of foodborne illness attributed…
NCBA CEO Kendal Frazier Announces Plans for Retirement
…because of his service to cattlemen and cattlewomen.” Kendal Frazier When NCA merged with the National Livestock and Meat Board in 1996, Frazier was a member of the team who…
Legislation to Bring Cell-Cultured Meat Products Under USDA Jurisdiction
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith recently introduced legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) the responsibility of regulating, inspecting, and labeling cell-cultured meat products. The Cell-Cultured Meat and…
Wonderful to Run Entirely on Renewable Energy by 2025
…in the country at the time. That project alone generated nearly 15 percent of the energy needed for the company’s pistachios and almonds processing facility. The company also installed rooftop…
New Report Highlights the Scale of Industry Concentration in Agriculture
…understanding of the issue. Between 1986 and 2015 the market share for the four largest poultry processing businesses grew from 35 percent to 58 percent. The biggest four hog processors…
Monitoring Southern Blight in Colusa County
…the late plantings with tomatoes, it created a lot of problems for processing tomatoes and southern blight kind of showed up in a lot of places and it’s generally not…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 03-21-19
…livestock group is calling beef trade with Brazil Risky, more news on the Tulare County olive growers processing contracts and details about another court case against Monsanto and its weed…