…for applying EU health and environmental standards to imported food and ag products. The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) recently submitted comments highlighting several concerns with the idea. In…
Technical Assistance Program to Further Expand Processing Capacity
…Program (MPPTA) has been launched to help support meat and poultry grant applicants and grant-funded projects. The assistance is being provided to applicants that are involved with the Meat and…
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Proposition 12 Challenge
…should not dictate farming practices for an entire nation.” Another petition filed by the North American Meat Institute arguing against Proposition 12 had previously been denied by SCOTUS back in…
Beef Safeguard Trigger Level Increased for U.S. Exports to Japan
…Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and North American Meat Institute have been largely supportive of efforts to improve beef safeguard trigger levels with Japan. “While the details of the agreement in…
Biden’s 2023 Budget Proposal: Ag and Rural Funds
…The Budget builds upon the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to create a fairer, more competitive and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain by providing more than $10 million for oversight…
Gene-Edited Beef Cattle Receive Low-Risk Determination from FDA
…but there’s also an ask about sequencing off-target effects. And then looking at the meat and milk composition of some sample animals to show that that didn’t alter from conventionally…
Less Than a Month Left to Apply for Meat Processing Grants
…Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program. The maximum award amount available to eligible meat and poultry processors is $25 million, or 20 percent of total project costs. Grant funding is…
Prepare for a fruitful year
…2017, global manufacturing sources were experiencing extreme challenges. Demand for many imports started to outpace the ability to transport goods from places like China and India. These countries also imposed…
USDA Supports Supply Chain Enhancement with $215 Million Investment
…agricultural sector, including jobs in meat and poultry processing. Meat and Poultry Processing Technical Assistance USDA also is helping to ensure that entities proposing independent meat and poultry processing projects…
Best Chicken Breeds to Raise on the Homestead
…breed, making them ideal for homesteaders seeking birds that will provide both eggs and meat. Buckeyes were bred in the late 19th century by a woman named Nettie Metcalf with…
Pesticide Levels in Food Found to Be Low Once Again in Latest Report
…and processed fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, poultry, grains, fish, rice, specialty products and water were reviewed as part of the report. More than 310,000 samples have been tested since…
Meat Prices Inquiry by House Oversight Subcommittee
…Krishnamoorthi, chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy sent letters to four major meat processing companies—Tyson Foods, JBS Foods, National Beef, and Seaboard, requesting the information. In a…
Court Issues a Stay of Enforcement for Proposition 12 Provisions
…chain and the burdensome and costly provisions of Prop 12,” President and CEO of the North American Meat Institute, Julie Anna Potts said in a press release. “To enforce the…
VofV: How to Make Tech Adoption Go from Revolution to Evolution
…out more at WGA.com. In a country like Brazil where extraordinarily-resistant pests run rampant on crops, how are agtech venture capitalists saving the day? By providing young economies and companies…