…Food Safety and Inspection Service Food Product Dating “Best if Used By” is a type of date you might find on a meat, poultry, or egg product label. Are dates…
NFU Approves of Bill Adding USDA to Foreign Investment Committee
…foreign entities. In meat processing, it has disrupted trade markets, giving foreign competitors an unfair advantage.” “NFU is pleased Sens. Stabenow and Grassley are calling for increased scrutiny on food…
U.S. Lacking in Organic Meat Processors
…meat industry publication Meatingplace. Additional needs cited by the more than 1,000 organic farmers who participated in the survey include the need for research into how to get the best…
Analyzing Disease Mutations Using Online Cattle Genomes
…sequenced by researchers at the Agricultural Research Service‘s (ARS) U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Nebraska. The breeds include Angus, Brangus and Hereford. The publicly accessible information…
Farmers Need Solution to Immigration Challenge
…is the H-2A temporary and seasonal foreign agricultural workforce program, intended to help employers with short-term labor needs. Many jobs in farming and food processing are not seasonal and thus…
March WASDE Report Released This Week
…300,000 bales. Total U.S. meat production is forecast to increase from last month as higher beef production will offset lower pork and turkey production. Broiler production is unchanged from last…
U.S. Red Meat Exports Strong in January
…January 2016 shares of 22.3 percent and 18.8 percent. Pork export value averaged $50.23 per head slaughtered, up 21 percent from a year ago. “The red meat industry entered 2017…
Agri View: Food and Health Problems
…eat causing all the health problems that I keep hearing about. Sugar is not good for you. Don’t use salt. Meat will poison you. Careful now about how much white…
Handling Raw Chicken – Part Two
…When you’re shopping many stores provide plastic bags at the meat counter, take advantage of those if you’re buying meat or poultry, slip them in that plastic bag. Because bagging…
Global Food Prices Edging Higher
…commodities used in the calculation of the index increased in February. Cereal grain prices increased 2.5 percent from January 2017 levels, while meat prices were up 1.1 percent for the…
U.S. HPAI Sparking Import Bans
…Tennessee prompted the state to place 30 other farms in the area under quarantine for testing, according to meat industry publication Meatingplace. In 2015, HPAI killed 48 million birds in…
Broiler Hatchery Report
…by eggs set three weeks earlier. Broiler-Type Chicks Placed in the United States Up 1 Percent Broiler growers in the United States weekly program placed 178 million chicks for meat…
Agri View: Red Meat Consumption
Everett Griner talks about a new study on red meat consumption in today’s Agri View. Red Meat Consumption If you read too much about the food you eat or how…
National Pork Board Increases International Markets Funding
…through additional funding of in-country promotions of U.S. pork with the U.S. Meat Export Federation.” On average, U.S. pork and pork variety meat exports accounted for 25.8 percent of total…