…Meat 2 Lbs Butter 1 Garlic Head Split in Half 1 Bay Leaf 2 T Italian Seasoning 4 Limes Lime Infused Slow Poached Lobster For this and many more of…
USCMA: Turkey and Poultry Trade Changes with Canada
…in the negotiations, but the U.S. will also gain the market share in turkey in poultry if all three countries approve the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Meat industry publication Meatingplace…
USDA Launches Interactive Data Tool to Help Rural Communities Address the Opioid Crisis
…of October as National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017; 49,000 of those deaths involved an opioid. Many of these deaths have been…
Water Works: Water Year 2018 Well Below Average
…followed by the second-wettest year on record in 2017, followed by another dry year,” said DWR Director Karla Nemeth in a press release. “Climate change models predict extreme variability in…
USDA-NASS Announces 2017 Census of Agriculture Response Rate, Data Release Details
United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) concluded data collection for the 2017 Census of Agriculture with a 71.5 percent national response rate. The Census, conducted…
Groups Respond to New US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
…stability back to the North American markets. Under NAFTA, U.S. soy exports to Canada and Mexico were almost $3 billion in 2017, and U.S. soy exports to Mexico have grown…
Farm Groups Keep Pressure On to Formalize Meat Definition
…definition of protein products that don’t come from livestock and are currently labeled as cell-cultured “meat.” The industry website Meating Place Dot Com says the group wants the FDA to…
Bipartisan Support for Biodiesel Tax Incentive Extension
…states all the way from California to Connecticut, and they asked for a resolution in the coming weeks from House leadership. The biodiesel tax incentive was retroactively renewed for 2017…
September USDA Stocks Report Bearish
…coming up with the number, USDA says the 2017 soybean crop was 19 million bushels larger than expected, upping last year’s yield to 49.3 bushels per acre nationwide. USDA raised…
Legislators Call for NAFTA Negotiation Slowdown
…and New York dairy farmers were hit the hardest when Canada implemented its Class 7 milk pricing system in the spring of 2017. As dairy prices across the U.S. remain…
Farm Bureau says U.S.-Japan Trade Statement Bodes Well for Future
…tide is turning for the better on agricultural trade. “Despite substantial tariffs that limit our farmers’ and ranchers’ potential to access Japan’s food and agriculture markets, in 2017 Japan was…
NCBA “Strongly Supports” Expanding Trade with Japan
…export market, accounting for nearly $1.9 billion in U.S. beef sales in 2017. Unfortunately, U.S. beef faces a massive 38.5 percent tariff in Japan—a trade barrier that hurts America’s beef…
Updated KORUS Protects Current Market Share
The new KORUS agreement offers a sigh of relief for U.S. beef and pork. The U.S. Meat Export Federation says the market access terms secured in the original KORUS not…
Agri View: Learning from Native Americans
…and tobacco. There was always crops of beans, peanuts, and corn. Cattle and hogs. No, they were not part of Native American agriculture. The meat that they consumed back then…