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BEEF cattle producers are going into next year with a good scenario but, on the other hand, with a number of problems, according to Feedstuffs sources. Domestic beef supplies will [...]

THE more things change, the more events repeat themselves. For the past two years, as we have prepared this article, we have been amazed at the continuing strength of the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - There will be several changes in Farm Credit System (FCS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture loan programs if language adopted last week by the Senate Agriculture Committee [...]

A new requirement for animal protein imports has been causing problems for those trying to buy fish meal from Chile, Peru, Mexico and other countries. The Animal & Plant Health [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The issue of the salmonella performance standard for measuring the success of the pathogen reduction processes in meat and poultry processing plants was the sole controversy during [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A bipartisan group of 21 senators has urged U.S. Trade Representative. (USTR) Robert Zoellick to challenge South Africa's decision to impose steep tariffs on U.S. chicken leg [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Chicken Council (NCC) urged Congress last week not to tinker with the laws governing the relationships between growers and the integrated companies whose chickens they [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President George Bush has nominated Charles A. James as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He was acting assistant [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When Congress defeated the workplace ergonomics rule last week -- the one passed in the final days of the Clinton Administration after years of controversy -- it [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The first glimpse of Bush Administration budget priorities for the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave few hints about an emergency income assistance package for farmers -- one [...]

President Bill Clinton has pardoned Tyson Foods Inc. executive Archie Shaffer III of his conviction for allegedly attempting to illegally influence former Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy by arranging for [...]

During a summit in Vittel, France, between German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac Nov. 10, the two leaders agreed to push for agreement in principle on a [...]

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) continued last week to press the Clinton Administration for tougher action against anti-competitive market practices, especially in the livestock markets. Grassley, who is also a [...]

The second meeting of a North American initiative launched by President Bill Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr[grave{e}]tien to modernize the U.S. Canada border was held in Vancouver June [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Agricultural antitrust legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture to review mergers of major agribusinesses was introduced March 17 by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa). [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing that the American Identification Numbering System be recognized as universal identification for livestock [...]

PHOENIX, ARIZ. -- The board of directors of the National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. (NCBA) sent a year's work intended to broaden the association's embrace of grassroots producers back to the [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) has proposed a 2.4% increase in the hourly rates charged for official grain inspection and [...]

Thirty-eight organizations representing a diverse cross-section of the agrifood community are encouraging the Clinton Administration to resolutely support the science-based labeling policies of the Food & Drug Administration, particularly as [...]

After the European Commission's top scientists ruled that France has no case, the French government was expected to decide soon whether to drop its ban on British beef maintained because [...]

According to the latest 'U.S. Drought Monitor,' drought coverage in the contiguous U.S. fell sharply during the five-week period ending Nov. 3 after torrential rains fell in the South. U.S. [...]

PORK producers are facing 'a primary challenge' and 'a primary threat' and need to rise to both challenge and threat by documenting that they are doing 'the right thing,' according [...]

LAST week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson denied a request from Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a one-year, 50% reduction in the national renewable fuels standard (RFS). Johnson said [...]

SEN. Kay Hutchison (R., Texas) is holding her ground on keeping Congress from approving an energy bill and allowing conference talks to begin between House and Senate members. Her spokesman, [...]

THE man chairing the World Trade Organization's agriculture negotiations made a draft agreement public last Tuesday that he said shows roughly where governments can find a Doha Round deal. The [...]

Key Points * Farm bureau said placing animal care standards into statute would set bad precedent. * Consumer pork price also a concern. * Activists running out of avenues for [...]

REPERCUSSIONS of what is now being called intentional contamination of pet food in the U.S.--a feed safety issue that spread last week to eight hog farms in seven states--continue to [...]

THE Iowa pork industry calls a television ad run by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) 'misleading' and 'hypocritical.' The Iowa Pork Producers Assn. (IPPA) called on the congressman to [...]

THE outbreak of illness from fresh spinach contaminated with Escherichia coli O157: H7 brought calls for drastic changes in the nation's food inspection system and prompted a criminal investigation at [...]

THE U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a hearing on possibly making changes in the Class III/IV make allowances for protein, milk fat and other dairy solids on Sept. 14-15 in [...]

Poultry executives concerned about the price of corn-based feed rations heard from an expert that 'the future is in cellulosic ethanol.' Meanwhile, with the boom in corn-based ethanol plants, a [...]

Key Points * APHIS cites rise in transshipments of prohibited products. * Interim rule sets Nov. 24 for border, airports fees. NEW U.S. border inspection fees for Canada--which the U.S. [...]

Key Points * EPA approved last of producer consent agreements for study. * Purdue to install mobile labs at livestock and poultry production sites across U.S. * Regulators waiting for [...]

The U.S. departments of Agriculture and Interior announced early last week that routine surveillance has indicated the presence of H5 and N1 avian influenza subtypes in samples from two wild [...]

THE stakes will be high for some major trading partners like Russia, Brazil and India as the U.S. government continues its first major review of the U.S. Generalized System of [...]

A TOTAL of 18 sites will be investigated in competition for the new National Bio & Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) to research disease threats to animals and humans. The Department of [...]

A PROPOSAL to 'update' food packages for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Women, Infants & Children (WIC) food program to improve participants' health and nutrition recommends that the program cut [...]

THE presence of mycotoxins in cereal-based feedstuffs seriously affects the productivity of animal industries. Since cereal grains are also the main ingredients of many commercial pet foods, companion animals may [...]

JAPAN'S long-awaited decision to reopen its market to U.S. beef happened July 27, but Japanese officials maintained the country's rule that beef must come from young animals and warned that [...]

THE environmental community in North Carolina is aflutter over the prospect of hog operations turning manure into a marketable product. Newspapers from Raleigh to Charlotte are talking about new technology [...]

IN August of last year, dairy producers in California's Central Valley received certified letters from the regional water quality control board requesting a report of waste discharge (ROWD) and fee [...]

THE biggest fear about an animal identification system 'is not having one.' according to Dr. Bobby Accord. chair of the pork sector task force on swine identification. Animal identification needs [...]

FULL public information about who is getting payments for farm subsidies and conservation programs is a step closer with last week's release of an important U.S. Department of Agriculture database [...]

DESPITE a national debate raging about the National Animal Identification System (NAIS), several livestock industry groups are moving forward with programs that make sense to them and allow 48-hour traceback [...]

THE Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) closed its public consultation May 31 on a proposal to ease restrictions on imports of U.S. cattle put in place to prevent the spread [...]

REVOLUTION is a word that actually may understate the burgeoning investment in biofuels in the U.S. The fuel frenzy drew the attention of the Senate Agriculture Committee during a hearing [...]

HOUSE agricultural appropriations subcommittee chairman Rep. Henry Bonilla (R., Texas) announced that a full hearing on the threat of the H5N1 virus will be held later this month. The hearing [...]

IN a final determination, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) ruled March 15 that U.S. corn is being subsidized and dumped onto the Canadian market. The groups initiating the Canadian [...]

A FULL epidemiological study is underway to determine how an aged beef cow in Alabama--the third in the U.S. to be diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) --was exposed to [...]

WHILE the spotlight now shines on European tariffs, differences over farm subsidies are still blocking a World Trade Organization deal, suggesting that come spring, negotiators will be looking for larger [...]