…when it was slaughtered in the United States. For Canada, bovine tuberculosis is a federally reportable disease, and the nation is considered to be officially free of the disease. Click…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…The 2014–2015 HPAI outbreak was the worst animal disease outbreak experienced in the United States, sweeping across 15 States and forcing officials to kill nearly 50 million birds. Consumers felt…
Wisconsin Dairy Farmers Oppose TPP
…the survey were questions about concern with the United States entering into trade agreements with known currency manipulators, and the loss of U.S. sovereignty due to the expansion of Investor-State…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…weevil to get a foothold in the United States and then leapfrog into one of these interior valleys and come into our growing district,” Keck said. “We’re hopeful that it’s…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…for this CRP working-lands conservation program. These offers are predominantly larger acreage ranchland in Western states. The new practice for small-scale livestock grazers aims, in part, to encourage greater diversity…
HSUS Denies Budget Problems
The Humane Society of the United States is brushing off a report that says it’s having financial difficulties. The talk of challenges within the organization started Tuesday when the Center…
CCGGA Hosts Congressional Staff
…CCGGA Director of Technical Services Christopher McGlothlin and Western Agricultural Processors Association (WAPA) Safety Specialist Priscilla Rodriguez. Of particular interest, the group visited County Line Gin. The purpose of the…
Higher Dose of Vitamin D May Benefit Pregnant Women
…findings were published in the November 2016 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. The research team included Charles Stephensen, with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center…
Nominations for Trade Advisory Committees
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), in cooperation with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR),…
November Pumpkin Picking
…period is the best to purchase a pumpkin. According to Dave Horner of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service. 90-percent of the pumpkins in the United States for fresh market are sold…
Poultry Industry Injury Rate Remains Low
A Labor Department report shows job injury and illness rates remain at all-time lows for poultry workers in the United States. The total recordable poultry processing illness and injury rate…
Lab System Aims to Protect State’s Livestock
…full-service lab that could handle not just birds but other livestock, Silva said. Such a lab would benefit the region’s dairies, which currently have to make trips to Davis or…
Looking for ‘Natural Enemies’ in Asia to Control Invasive Plants
…Smith traveled to Asia to collect insects that can control the spread of several invasive plant species in the United States that originated in Asia. Predator and prey co-evolve in…
Western View: Finally it’s Done
…of law, not of men; and we’ve elected lots of characters to the presidency, and some how we survived. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West….