…on profitability, productivity and sustainability. Speaking to attendees Wednesday, Cameron Bruett (brew-it) of JBS USA, emphasized the significant challenges posed by competing proteins, an uncertain political environment and its impact…
Food Producers Accelerating Exports to Mexico, Searching for New Markets
…could be at risk if clashes over trade and immigration escalate between Mexico and the U.S., according to Reuters. The new Donald Trump Administration is pledging to renegotiate the North…
House Agriculture Committee Meets
…to the rank of Captain. Don Bacon of Nebraska is a retired, decorated U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, having served our country for nearly 30 years, and is the highest…
6 Things to Know About EPA Review of Pyrethroids
…The individual chemicals in the group vary considerably in their potency, and there are several pyrethroids that don’t cause neurotoxicity. The agency is more concerned with acute (one-day) neurotoxic effects…
Agri View: Feeding America
…those who feed us. Don’t you think? Well, think about it. That’s Agri View for today. I’m Everett Griner. Image Credit: (Lower right) American Falls, Idaho, USA. Image of a…
Agri View: Turkey, Chicken or Duck Eggs
…Likely they are all chicken eggs. It is strange we don’t cook and serve turkey eggs. Have you ever eaten a turkey egg? They are just as edible as chicken…
Beekeepers, Farmers Prepare for Pollination
…still you have a percentage that just don’t make it,” Godlin said. “About a month ago, the amount of bees in the hive were the size of a basketball and…
Japan Hesitant to Invite China into TPP
…standard for trade rules.” Government officials don’t appear in a hurry to begin two-way trade talks with Washington, although some officials said they can’t rule it out. The Japanese Prime…
Agri View: Weather Changes
…drought, floods and tornadoes than any half decade. But they don’t all agree that climate change is the reason. Question. If it isn’t climate change, what is it? Some of…
Important Tax Deadline Looms for Farmers
…of February. “You’ve got to get it all done by Jan. 31 this year, both the copy sent to the recipient as well as the copy filed with the IRS,”…
Geneticist Edward Buckler Awarded First NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
…only about one-fifth the harvest as produced in the United States. Millions of hungry, poor people don’t have the hundred years it would take to repeat what conventional breeding did…
Ag Reacts to Trump TPP Move
…Tracy Brunner issued a statement stating: “Fact is American cattle producers are already losing out on $400,000 in sales every day because we don’t have TPP, and since NAFTA was…
Agri View: Choice of Meat
…know that deer meat has replaced a lot of farm raised meat on the dinner table. And guess what. Farmers don’t care. That’s Agri View for today. I’m Everett Griner….
NMPF, USDEC Urge Trump Administration Not to Cede Export Opportunities
…past several years. This puts the U.S. agriculture sector at a competitive disadvantage if we don’t pursue our own initiatives,” he said. The Trans-Pacific Partnership “was far from perfect, but…