Fake Meat Courtesy NCBA The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) will highlight the food safety and product labeling expertise of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) during a two-day public…
Celebrating National Nut Day
Everybody goes nuts over nuts. Cathy Isom is celebrating a nutritious snack that’s can eaten raw, cooked, or roasted. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Celebrating National Nut…
USDA Announces Receipt of 136 Expressions of Interest in Hosting ERS & NIFA
…Lucerne Area Revitalization Association CO Denver Cottonwood Management Company CO Denver Forest City Trust CO Denver Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation CO Aurora Aurora Economic Development Council DE Newark University…
EPA Chief Says E15 Expansion Doesn’t Need Congress
…by May. The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, which represents oil refiners, says the industry will challenge the final proposal in court. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Beagle Brigade Helping Protect Homeland Pork
When Hardy, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) trained detector dog, sniffed out a roasted pig head in traveler baggage at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport early this month, it underscored…
Farm Bill a Topic on the Campaign Trail
…want to get ahead of Congress on the issue, which means it’s uncertain as to when his agency will release the rule. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
China Has Culled 200,000 Pigs Due to Swine Fever Outbreak
…outbreaks have happened in northeast China. That’s an area which typically sends its hogs to slaughter in the south, closer to consumption centers. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News…
U.S. Suspends Pork Imports from Poland
…detected anywhere in North America. The disease is highly-contagious among domestic and feral pigs, but it poses no danger to human health. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Online Grocery Sales to Quadruple
…Walmart’s large number of rural stores is expected to give it a competitive advantage in online shopping over the next five years. Source: National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Presidential Order Restores Western Water Supplies
…but the Commerce Department handles them when they’re in saltwater. Those overlapping jurisdictions have only slowed efforts to help the fish. A committee convened by the National Research Council also…
USMCA a Framework for Future Trade Deals
…chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said this week that other potential agreements will “look very much alike, and very much like this,” according to Politico. His…
Conaway Determined to Complete Farm Bill
…notes Peterson also has said he does not want to carry the farm bill into 2019 even if the House flips in the midterm elections. Source: National Association of Farm…
Study: E15 to Provide Limited Ethanol Market Impact
…to the National Association of Convenience Stores. RFA does say the number of stations offering E15 could double to around 2,700 by late 2019 to early 2020. Mark Lytle of…
USDA Announces Pink Bollworm Eradication Significantly Saving Cotton Farmers in Yearly Control Costs
…quarantine for pink bollworm, relieving restrictions on the domestic and international movement of U.S. cotton. “Removing pink bollworm regulations eases the movement of cotton to market both domestically and internationally…