…product receipts; crop receipts are forecast essentially unchanged from 2015. Nearly all major animal specialties—including dairy, meat animals, and poultry/eggs—are forecast to have lower receipts, including a 14.8-percent drop ($11.6…
More Cattle Culling Planned in Canada Amid Bovine TB
…been tested. However, calves will be destroyed without testing, according to the CFIA. Meat from destroyed animals that are later ruled TB-negative will be eligible for food use. The investigation…
Growth of U.S. Dairy Exports
…future. Despite being one of the top milk-producing countries and home to an extensive milk-processing sector, historically, the United States did not play a major role in international dairy trade….
Bird Flu Expanding Across Europe
…according to meat industry online publication Meatingplace. Animal health officials in Sweden report culling 200,000 laying hens to reduce further infection. An estimated 27,000 birds died in the first weeks’…
Agri View: Chicken Prices
Everett Griner talks about chicken prices following other meats in today’s Agri View. Chicken Prices For the past three or four years statistics show beef and pork prices climbing higher…
National Organic Standards Board Meeting
…on issues concerning organic production and processing. During the meeting, which is open to the public, the board will address several petitions about changes to the National List of Allowed…
Central Valley Supports Food Supply Chains
…food hub and grocery store in South Fresno, a community education space and a processing and distribution facility to develop markets for agricultural producers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. FamilyFarmed…
Agri View: Reducing Meat Consumption
…it doesn’t do any good to eat more fruits and vegetables unless you lower the consumption of meat. It makes no mention of any specific meat, red meat, dark meat,…
Food Safety Tips
…washing raw meat and poultry before cooking because doing so can cause bacteria to spread up to three feet away. Whether you bake, broil, boil, fry or grill your meat…
Turkey Sector: Background & Statistics
…and Demand Estimates report, and historical data are available on the ERS Livestock and Meat Domestic Data web page. U.S. turkey meat exports: 2012: 797 million pounds 2013: 741 million…
COOL Not on the Agenda for Trump
Country-of-Origin meat labeling will not be making a comeback under a Trump administration. Politico reports that Trump’s Agriculture Advisory Committee was quick to mobilize and inform Trump’s transition team that…
Agri View: Food Cost
…But is a fact that it is more years than not. It has been the fact for the past seven to nine years. Now in most years meat prices have…
Five Tips for a Food Safe Thanksgiving
…the public washes whole turkey before cooking it. USDA does not recommend washing raw meat and poultry before cooking. Washing raw meat and poultry can cause bacteria to spread up…
Stuffing, Outside of the Bird
…you don’t consider that and you don’t cook the turkey long enough to get that bacteria-killing temperature. Gravely says despite her advice, some of the callers to the U-S-D-A’s Meat…