…If the shutdown continues, this percentage would decrease, and activities would be reduced as available funding decreases. USDA activities that would continue in the short-term include: Meat, poultry, and processed…
Perdue Applauds USDA’s 2018 Accomplishments
…dairy and poultry to Canada under the USMCA, as well as lamb and goat meat to Japan, beef and pork to Argentina, poultry to India and Namibia, lamb to El Salvador, beef and poultry to Morocco, eggs…
Celebrating National Maple Syrup Day
…by the European settlers who gradually refined production methods. In the 1970s further refinements in the syrup processing were made with technological improvements. Vermont is the largest producer of maple…
Secretary Perdue Hosts Former Secretaries of Agriculture at USDA
…several issues including trade, wildfires, agriculture research, infrastructure, cell-based meat, and rural prosperity. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung. Source: USDA Sponsored Content Let’s Talk Livestock Risk Protection For Those Beef…
Environmental Footprint of California Livestock Often Gets Inflated
…beef with livestock, so to say, they use global numbers to convince people here in California and the U.S. to forgo the consumption of milk, meat, eggs and so forth,”…
Beyond Meat Files for Initial Public Offering
…USDA will ultimately oversee the production and labeling of alternative-meat products, with many beef producers pushing for a more hardline definition of the word ‘meat’ when it comes to labels…
Egg Laying Chickens with Personalities
…Plymouth Rocks, have been bred to be more of an egg production breed than meat production. Plymouth Rocks have excellent egg production, sometimes laying up to 6 eggs per week….
Agri View: BFTP-Butcher Shop a Thing of the Past
Do you remember when you could walk into your local butcher shop and order a cut of meat just the way you wanted it? Maybe you needed a bit of…
Agri View: BFTP-Selecting Meat in the Supermarket
What would you do if you selected meat or milk from a cloned animal in your supermarket? Everett Griner talks about the interesting results of a survey in today’s Agri…
Roughly 11 Percent of the Thanksgiving Food Dollar Goes to Farmers
…of food costs are usually directed toward retailing, marketing, distribution, wholesaling and processing. The Thanksgiving edition of the NFU Farmer’s Share report shows that farmers receive even less than the…
Cell-Cultured Meat Products to Be Regulated by Both USDA and FDA
The regulation of cell-cultured meat products will officially be administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recent announcement of shared…
One of the Most Popular Chicken Breeds
…of the Most Popular Chicken Breeds Orpingtons are one of the most popular chicken breeds that are versatile with good egg laying and meat production qualities, as well as exceptional…
Royalty of the Poultry World
…for males. Not exactly a bird for meat production. Their eggs are also a bit smaller than ideal, but still a decent size. However, these small birds are great for…
Agri View: BFTP-Wild Meat Consumption
Sliced venison steak In this Blast from the Past episode of Agri View with Everett Griner, Everett talks about Americas growing taste for wild meat in today’s Agri View. BFTP-Wild…