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LEMON-LAVENDER CRINKLES P.54 Sweet Potato Loaf Cake With Dark Chocolate Ganache P. 55 APPLE-ROSE PIE 8 SERVINGS Long before vanilla extract became widely available, rose water was the flavoring of choice in America. (227 g) bittersweet chocolate ½ tsp. vanilla extract CAKE Place a rack in middle of oven and preheat to 400°. SWEET POTATO LOAF CAKE WITH DARK CHOCOLATE GANACHE 12 SERVINGS Completely cloaked in glossy ganache, a slice of this cake reveals its vibrant interior, gently spiced and faintly citrusy. PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE P.55 APPLE-ROSEPIE P.54 Mini Baked Alaskas When it comes to making desserts for the holidays, best-selling cookbook author and Back in the Day Bakery co-owner Cheryl Day has a lifetime of expertise to share. [Extracted from the article]

MCDONALD'S USA announced last week that it will buy only chickens raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine and will serve milk from cows not treated with recombinant [...]

MEAT and poultry products remain among the top choices for grocery shoppers; however, consumers are changing their purchasing behavior, according to the 'Power of Meat' study published by the Food [...]

MARYLAND Gov. Larry Hogan unveiled enhanced phosphorus management tool (PMT) regulations to improve water quality in the state as well as the Chesapeake Bay area. The new PMT regulations resulted [...]

THE Hypoxia Task Force, comprised of 12 states and federal agencies, announced a new approach and timeline for reducing the hypoxia zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Each summer, high [...]

Beef producers who plan to expand face challenges as U.S. grazing acreage declines. EXPANDING the U.S. cattle herd in order to regain lost market share will rest on the shoulders [...]

EXTREME weather events could become the 'new norm' for the Midwest if the U.S. stays on its current greenhouse gas emission pathway. A risk assessment analysis, 'Heat in the Heartland: [...]

WITH California's new egg production regulations now in effect, the U.S. egg market will continue its struggle to find a new equilibrium as consumers in the golden state shell out [...]

VETERAN pork industry leader Chris Hodges will take the helm as the National Pork Board's (NPB) new chief executive officer. Hodges will leave his senior vice president of business development [...]

THE U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced proposed changes to modernize livestock marketing facility regulations. According to APHIS, the proposed updates and clarifications are [...]

FARMERS and ranchers worldwide now have access to an intelligence explosion with Cargill's new high-tech Biological Response Team (BRT) that can decode real-life animal nutrition conundrums quickly. In an exclusive [...]

SINCE its introduction in 2009 and later revision in 2013, the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labeling (mCOOL) rule has stirred lengthy, hearty discussions of its economic impact on stakeholders throughout the [...]

LEADERS from animal agriculture organizations, food companies, farmers and chefs joined the American Humane Assn. (AHA) at a congressional briefing, themed 'Humane Table,' to highlight American farmers and ranchers who [...]

ELEVATING U.S. pork to be the global protein of choice while not losing focus on doing the right thing for people, pigs and the planet is the core of the [...]

A GLOBAL definition of sustainable beef--a work in progress for 18 months--officially received final approval by members of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) at its global conference in [...]

EXPANSION was the forecasted activity for the chicken industry in 2014. However, breeding flock fertility issues created roadblocks. The inability to increase chicken production has supported both beef and pork [...]

THE beef industry reached a pivotal point this summer as producers built momentum by holding back females to restock the U.S. cattle herd. Jim Robb with the Livestock Marketing Information [...]

CONSUMER behavior worldwide will be a vital component of the economic picture for the agriculture sector in 2015. For next year, the uneven global recovery will linger. The International Monetary [...]

PORCINE epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) will linger as the biggest wild card for the pork industry and, for that matter, the entire animal agriculture complex in 2015. Purdue University Extension [...]

IT takes 8.2 gal. of water through the entire pork production process--from field to fork--to produce a 4 oz. serving of boneless pork, according to a new assessment, 'A Life [...]

THE impression that the international Meatless Monday campaign has grown in popularity is often touted on various media outlets. However, firm statistics to support the claim are difficult to find, [...]

Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack sent shockwaves across the beef industry when he announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture's plan to create a separate and supplemental new beef checkoff program after [...]

WORKERS in hog operations may carry home livestock-associated bacteria in their nasal passages, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study suggests. Previously, researchers believed that Staphylococcus aureus [...]

A STRONG milk price does not guarantee a profitable year for dairy operations; high input costs can easily erode high milk prices, as demonstrated by the difficult years producers had [...]

A TEAM of Kansas State University researchers explored the beef animal welfare knowledge gap between consumers and cattle producers in a recently released study funded by a grant from the [...]

PERDUE Foods announced last week that it surpassed a new milestone in its 12-year journey of developing standards for responsible use of antibiotics by eliminating all antibiotics from its chicken [...]

TYSON Foods Inc. agreed to sell Heinold Hog Markets--the boar and sow purchasing business of its Tyson Hog Market Inc. subsidiary--in a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice [...]

AFTER signing an agreement with World Animal Protection, Nestle announced that its 7,300 farms--which supply the company with dairy products, meat, poultry and eggs--will now have to comply with sterner [...]

FARMING and food production are no longer local industries serving just local markets but are now global suppliers with mounting opportunities and risks, Dr. Pete Anderson, director of research for [...]

FOR the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a report that can serve as a scientific roadmap for landowners to quantify and measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [...]

CHINESE authorities seized operations at Shanghai Husi Food Co.--a member of Illinois-based OSI Group LLC--for allegedly selling expired chicken and beef to major fast-food restaurants throughout China, according to reports [...]

THE third driest year on record for California is calculated to cost the state $2.2 billion and more than 17,100 jobs, according to a recently released report by University of [...]

IN general, the poultry industry, like other protein species, is benefitting from lower feed costs and higher prices. Still, industry expansion for 2014 is not advancing as quickly as most [...]

AS the U.S. beef cow inventory stands at historical lows and beef prices reach new highs, expansion is the 'talk of the industry,' at least for cow/ calf operations. In [...]

CARGILL announced that company sow facilities will convert to group sow housing by 2015. Influence from the marketplace shaped Cargill's decision to transform all company facilities for sows to group [...]

EGG company Quality Egg LLC agreed to pay $6.8 million in fines for selling old eggs with false labels, along with contaminated products that caused a massive salmonella outbreak in [...]