…first is that meat and poultry competition will be high. In addition to three percent more pork, beef production is expected to be up four percent and poultry production up…
China Lifts Barricade Against U.S. Beef
…Trump and China President Xi (she) Jinping over the weekend. Meat industry publication Meatingplace reports the opportunity for U.S. beef exporters could be significant. The greater China region, which includes…
Ag Confidence Grows as Latest DTN/PF Survey Suggests Strong Future
…a huge boost to farm spirits. Like a growing number of farmers, he is concerned about the rhetoric around trade, particularly with key U.S. grain and meat customers such as…
Brazil Investigation Leads to Processor Closures
Brazil’s tainted meat corruption probe uncovered tainted meat samples and will result in the closure of some processors. As part of the investigation, the nation found eight samples of meat…
March FAO Food Price Index Slips
…from February and 17 points (12 percent) higher than in March 2016. Quotations for the individual categories of meat were little changed. Slight increases for bovine meat and pigmeat were,…
USDA Announces $1.2 Million to Support Aquaculture Research Projects
…production, processing, and distribution services in Southern New England. The project will transfer cultivation techniques of Saccharina latissima (sugar kelp) from the academic laboratory to commercially viable farms, introduce processing…
Survey: Consumers Baffled by Food Labels
…online meat industry publication Meatingplace reports the survey shows 82 percent of consumers said they buy organic products mainly because they believe the foods to be pesticide-free. But, In reality,…
Agri View: Cattle Grazing Cost
…beef. It is back at the top of meat consumption list. That stabilizes prices. And it pays the extra pasture rent. That is good for everybody involved. That’s Agri View…
USDA County-Level Data Dispute New NWF Study
…from the trees? If you were going into the orange juice business, would you build your processing plant in Maine, thousands of miles from the citrus groves of the Gulf…
NCC Conveys Farm Law Priorities
…directly involved in the production, distribution and processing of cotton employ more than 125,000 workers and produce direct business revenue of more than $21 billion. Accounting for the ripple effect…
Report Highlights Changes in Community Supported Agriculture Business Model
…meat products, dairy products, eggs, value-added products and cut flowers to the range of choices offered to their subscribers, often through multi-farm cooperation, CSA operators are able to better stabilize…
USDA Expands Meat and Poultry Hotline Hours
…and preparation information by expanding the hours of its Meat and Poultry Hotline and Ask Karen chat services. As detailed in the Agency’s 2017-2021 Strategic Plan, FSIS is focusing on…
Snowpack’s Water Content Remains Far above Average
…this Phillips survey will be posted at DWR’s File Transfer System page after processing. Photography will be available for download in DWR’s online gallery after processing. Electronic snowpack readings are…
U.S. Beef Industry to President Trump: Please Help Get U.S. Beef Back into China
…President Xi Jinping in April. Leaders from the U.S. Meat Export Federation and the North American Meat Institute also signed the letter. American beef producers have been denied access to…