…target by Canada to grow global agriculture and food exports to $75 billion by 2025, according to Canadian Minister of Agriculture Lawrence MacAulay. Officials from Canada, including MacAulay, are in…
USDA Proposes Rule to Eliminate Redundant Hog Carcass Cleaning Regulation
The Department of Agriculture last week proposed to amend federal meat inspection regulations to repeal what USDA calls a redundant regulatory requirement for hog slaughter establishments. The Food Safety and…
Perdue Names Bruce Summers AMS Administrator
…Bruce will build on his great record of success.” AMS administers programs that create domestic and international marketing opportunities for U.S. producers of food, fiber, and specialty crops through voluntary…
Farmers Focus on Consumer’s Wants, Nutritional Value Food Labels
…and looks at the nutritional value food label listed on their food they often become confused. “What that researched showed is that people do tend to be confused,” Thompson-Weeman said….
NCC: Farm Legislation Passage Much Needed
…lenders would be reluctant to provide financing to an industry operating at the mercy of weather extremes and volatile global market prices.” He said that a strong farm bill also…
Perdue Announces FSIS Key Leadership
…lines of food safety, having begun his career as a food inspector. He has held numerous leadership positions within FSIS, including as a District Manager, Executive Associate for Regulatory Operations…
Texas Tech to Launch Veterinary School
…Coordinating Board detailing the shortages of large animal and rural veterinarians in Texas, and the adverse impact on global food supplies. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Wheat Growers Talk Farm Bill with Lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
…income of wheat farmers is expected to decline more than 21 percent this year from last year, combining with low commodity prices and a suffering ag economy, all reasons “strong…
Time is Nearly Up for Cotton Ginning Cost-Share Applications
…has been administered by USDA, to help producers respond to the challenging economic conditions and low cotton prices of recent years.” Under the program administered by the Farm Service Agency…
First-Ever WTO Counter Notification Against India’s Market Price Support Issued by U.S.
…bonuses from calculations of applied administered prices, exclusion from India’s notifications of information on the total value of production (VoP) of wheat and rice (information necessary to assess compliance with…
Co-ops Support California Federal Milk Marketing Order
…better address disparities between farm gate prices in California and the rest of the nation.” After USDA’s release of the final decision on March 30th, the three cooperatives held educational…
Secretary Perdue Commits to Prioritizing Food Waste Solutions
…While food loss and waste eats up nearly 40% of the food supply in the U.S., millions of Americans need access to safe, wholesome, affordable food. Consumers are responsible for…
NRCS Resources to Increase Pollinator Populations
…to the drop in the number of monarchs is the decrease of native plants such as milkweed, which is the sole food source for monarch caterpillars. There are close to…
Food Price Index up 2.7 Percent
The Global Food Price Index has increased two percent since this time last year. Released last week, the monthly record of global food prices by the Food and Agriculture Organization…