…standards by October 1, 2017. Regulations Child and Adult Care Food Program: Meal Pattern Revisions Related to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Final Rule One-Page Summaries of the…
Agri View: Ostrich Farming
…needed in order for the burgeoning market to flourish. Currently, the largest problem with ostrich meat is that there are not enough birds, and the meat is too expensive. Therefore,…
Bison Our National Mammal
…and Oklahoma spawned today’s 2,500 privately ranched herds of bison that provide meat, wool and leather to growing markets. Native Americans are regaining opportunities to re-center their way of life…
Agri View: Robot Tractors and Agriculture
…in 2016 – marking the beginning of true commercialization – about 1,600 units in 2017, and more than 4,100 in 2018.” Driving the growth in agricultural automation is a convergence…
U.S. Agriculture in Vietnam
…poultry meat, currently as high as 40 percent, will be eliminated within 13 years. This includes tariffs on frozen chicken cuts and offal, which will be eliminated in 11 years….
SWP Allocations Reach 60 Percent
…go dry. It normally takes more than one wet year to erase the impacts of multi-year droughts, and decades to replenish groundwater levels. Accurately predicting whether water year 2017 will…
Pork Producers “Fly-In”
…and for establishing a Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine bank, to oppose legislation that would allow for the intrastate commercial sale of un-inspected meat and to support the Trans-Pacific…
Agri View: SNAP Changes
…of the following four staple food groups, with perishable foods in at least two of the categories: meat, poultry or fish bread or cereal vegetables or fruits dairy products OR…
Western SARE Releases Calls for Proposals
…with notification in March 2017. Professional Development projects focus on training agricultural professionals to help them spread knowledge about sustainable agriculture concepts and practices. Proposals are due noon MDT, November…
Agri View: Pig Out
…in the same village or town. They were valued as a source of meat, fat and for the ability to turn inedible food into meat, and often fed household food…
Pacific Region Livestock Review
…247 pounds. In Hawaii, 700,000 pounds of red meat were produced in February 2016, and 100,000 pounds of red meat were produced in Nevada. United States Commercial Slaughter Commercial red…
USDA Expands Safety-Net for Dairy Operations
…inter-generational transfer occur will have an opportunity to increase the dairy operations production history during the 2017 registration and annual coverage election period. The next election period begins on July…
Exemption Granted for PSHB Management
…use of Hero® EW Insecticide against the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) on Monday April 11, 2016. This section 18 is effective for 1-year and expires on April 8, 2017….
Agri View: SNAP Fraud
…SNAP electronic benefits transfer (EBT) has given USDA new tools to identify, track, and take action against trafficking. We use the electronic “audit trail” from EBT transactions to identify trafficking…