…and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspectors. Without inspections, pointed out NPPC in a Jan. 19, 2018, letter to the secretary, “meat and poultry processing plants are prohibited by law from operating.”…
SV Ag Tech Summit Focusing On The Present
…to increase productivity and profitability. That innovation includes technology in all aspects of agriculture and the supply chain from fresh produce growing to processing, sales, marketing, and distribution. The six-year-old…
FSA Offices Reopen for Three Days While Government Shutdown Continues
…been received to identify priority items. Other services that can be performed include the processing of payments made on or before December 31, 2018, as well as continuing expiring financing…
Food Safety Inspections Resuming Amid Government Shutdown
…has continued food inspections on meat and poultry items using unpaid inspectors, as those services are considered essential. Gottlieb noted that roughly a third of all inspections the FDA conducts…
Farmers and Ranchers Digest Information on Alternative Protein Sources
…how to get the message out about the products they produce. Plant-based “meats” (Impossible Foods, Inc. and Beyond Meat) and cell-based meats (Memphis Meats and Mosa Meat) are two types…
Navigating the H-2A Guest Worker Program
…revenue-neutral business that helps its users with the bureaucratic and regulatory portions of the program. Its services include a pre-approved management review, aid with paperwork and processing, educational meetings, recruitment…
USDA Extends Deadline for Market Facilitation Program Applications
…lapse in federal funding resulted in USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices closing on December 28, 2019, preventing any further processing of applications from farmers looking to apply. “Farmers who…
Developing Vineyard Management Technologies to Improve Efficiency
…specialty crop research initiative project and it looks at taking spatial data collected from sensors that we drive through the vineyard, processing that data and then being able to actually…
Residue Levels Once Again Well Below Required Limits
…with USDA and EPA working together in the selection of products to be tested on a rotating basis that have included fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, poultry,…
Perdue Details USDA Functions in the Event of a Lapse in Federal Funding
…If the shutdown continues, this percentage would decrease, and activities would be reduced as available funding decreases. USDA activities that would continue in the short-term include: Meat, poultry, and processed…
Perdue Applauds USDA’s 2018 Accomplishments
…dairy and poultry to Canada under the USMCA, as well as lamb and goat meat to Japan, beef and pork to Argentina, poultry to India and Namibia, lamb to El Salvador, beef and poultry to Morocco, eggs…
Celebrating National Maple Syrup Day
…by the European settlers who gradually refined production methods. In the 1970s further refinements in the syrup processing were made with technological improvements. Vermont is the largest producer of maple…
Secretary Perdue Hosts Former Secretaries of Agriculture at USDA
…several issues including trade, wildfires, agriculture research, infrastructure, cell-based meat, and rural prosperity. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung. Source: USDA Sponsored Content Protecting Your Operation from Damaging Fire Ants July…
Environmental Footprint of California Livestock Often Gets Inflated
…beef with livestock, so to say, they use global numbers to convince people here in California and the U.S. to forgo the consumption of milk, meat, eggs and so forth,”…