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…
Fuels America Cuts Ties With RFA
A coalition of the nation’s top biofuels advocates united together as Fuels America resolved to reject a move by Carl Icahn (Eye’-Kahn), owner of CVR Refining, to destabilize the Renewable…
Cattlemen, PLC Applaud Zinke As New Interior Secretary
…so vital to western economies,” Eliason said. Western ranchers own approximately 120 million acres of the most productive private land in the West and manage nearly 250 million acres of…
Broiler Hatchery Report
Broiler-Type Eggs Set in the United States Up 2 Percent Hatcheries in the United States weekly program set 222 million eggs in incubators during the week ending February 25, 2017,…
January Chicken and Egg Report
January Egg Production Up 9 Percent United States egg production totaled 9.04 billion during January 2017, up 9 percent from last year. Production included 7.91 billion table eggs, and 1.12…
FCFB: No Water Announcement Is ‘Completely Unacceptable’
…The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the United States Department of Commerce, has yet to complete their fisheries’ temperature management plan for Shasta Lake. While they take their…