…Wisconsin. The high-pathogenic outbreak was the first in more than a year in the United States as other countries in Europe and Asia are dealing with multiple outbreaks. However, the…
Executive Order Initiates Review of WOTUS Rule
…At stake is a “waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers, which would expand the agencies’ authority…
Farmers Need Solution to Immigration Challenge
…limited to just a few large dairies in certain parts of the country. To illustrate the extent of the concern, NMPF twice worked with economists at Texas A&M during the…
Kansas Governor Brownback May Be An Ambassador
…Kansas City Dot Com article says Brownback is talking with the administration about taking the position of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Food and Agriculture. Brownback is a…
Handling Raw Chicken – Part Two
…we do. United States Department of Food and Agriculture Safety Specialist Marianne Gravely also points out another important precautions we can take before bringing poultry home from the grocery store….
Western View: WOTUS Changes Coming Soon
Last week President Trump started the process to modify WOTUS – the Waters of the United States – rules. These rules were put in place in 2015 when the Supreme…
Protect Your Poultry from Avian Influenza
…The case in Lincoln County, Tenn., is the first report of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza in commercial poultry in the United States this year. The flock of 73,500 affected…
United States and Canadian Cattle and Sheep Report
United States and Canadian Cattle Inventory Up 2 Percent All cattle and calves in the United States and Canada combined totaled 106 million head on January 1, 2017, up 2…
Global Food Prices Edging Higher
Global food prices trended higher in February, increasing half a percent compared to January. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released its Food Price Index Monday. While…
U.S. to Send Representative to Post-TPP Summit
The United States will send a representative to a trade summit later this month on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. The agreement is thought to be dead following President Donald…
U.S. HPAI Sparking Import Bans
…culled on the chicken breeding farm contracted to Tyson Foods stemming from the first report of HPAI in the United States this year. Government officials in Hong Kong, Korea and…
USDA Confirms H7 Avian Influenza in Tennessee
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H7 avian influenza (HPAI) of North American wild bird…
Legislation Would Address Agro-Terrorism
Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate and House of Representatives would address the potential threat of an agro-terrorism attack on the United States. The goal is to make sure the…
Western View: Fake Craft Beer?
…and as much as I hate those sites, there’s something even worse, and that’s fake craft beer. Western View Now, some of my best friends are craft beer drinkers. They…