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Healthcare's Public Option, Backdoor for More Agricultural Regulation
Drip . . . drip . . . drip: the fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ...
Ohio Overwhelmingly Pass Issue 2
In the Nov. 3 election, Ohio voters gave their approval to Issue 2, the ballot measure to amend the state constitution and create a livestock care standards board....
Ohio Heads to the Polls on Issue 2
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation is urging voters to get to the polls this Election Day and vote "yes" on state ballot "Issue 2," which would establish an Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board. ...
70% More Food Needed to Feed World in 2050
World food production must increase 70% by 2050 to cover a projected human population of 9.1 billion, says the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)....
EPA Throws A Curve On Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases in Feedlots
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) heralds it as a major step forward requiring, for the first time, large emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs)...
Canada Requests WTO Panel Review Over U.S. Country of Origin Labeling Law
The government of Canada on Oct. 7 officially asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to convene a panel to investigate the U.S. mandatory country of...
Vet Shortage Legislation Introduced in Congress
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Veterinary Services Investment Act (VSIA), which would establish a new grant...
Farm States May Copy Ohio Vote On Livestock Rules
Ohio voters will decide next week whether to create a board overseeing livestock care in a move that could give farmers in rural America a blueprint for battling animal rights groups intent on outlawing cramped cages for chickens and hogs, writes John Seewer for the Associated Press....
House Bill Tightens Market Oversight
Following deals and compromises that ended only shortly before the hearing began, the House Agriculture Committee last week passed HR 3795 — more commonly known as the “derivatives oversight” legislation —by a bipartisan voice vote....
Food Safety Programs Alter Farming
With food safety regulatory change on the horizon for U.S. producers, Rabobank recently found that approximately 40 percent of farmers have begun to alter their farming practices and methods....
Analysis of Issue 2
It’s not the casino gambling issue, but it is the issue that’s most near and dear to Madison County farmers....
R-CALF Says Obama Broke Promise
In a strongly worded four-page letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (Justice), 17 R-CALF USA officers, directors and committee chairs from 12 states on Thursday expressed deep disappointment that Justice failed to properly investigate the antitrust implications associated with Brazilian-based JBS S.A.’s (JBS’) acquisition of Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (Pilgrim’s Pride)....
Senate Climate Bill: Ag Unimpressed
"The bill also does nothing to provide alternative sources of energy to fill the energy deficit left by the reduction in fossil fuels, nor does it prevent the EPA from using controversial indirect land use principles that penalize ethanol."...
USDA Issues Grass Fed Marketing Claims Standards
The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued a voluntary standard for a grass (forage) fed livestock marketing claim that states grass and/or forage shall be the feed source consumed for the lifetime of the ruminant animal, with the exception of milk consumed prior to weaning....
Ag Community Gets Behind Issue 2
As one person put it, she heard no compelling reason to vote against a state constitutional amendment to establish a livestock care standards board....
Ohio Animal Care Campaign Begins
The Ohioans for Livestock Care/Yes for Issue 2 campaign got its start on Saturday at Bowling Green University in Ohio. ...
Senators Seek To Block EPA’s Indirect Land Use Rules
Three Midwest senators have introduced legislation that would prevent EPA from penalizing U.S. corn and soybean growers for land use changes or potential land clearing for increased biofuel production in other countries....
American Veal Association Says Michigan Housing Legislation Unfair to Veal Farmers
The American Veal Association (AVA) urges Michigan Senators to oppose H5127 which unfairly requires that Michigan veal producers transition to group housing within 12 months while giving Michigan pork and poultry producers ten-years to make the transition....
Canadian Farmers COOL to U.S. Protectionism
Struggling American livestock producers — hit hard by the recent economic downturn and the drop in demand for meat in the United States — have spurred recent trade protectionism measures, including country of origin labelling regulations (COOL), that essentially require United States meat processors to segregate live Canadian cattle and hogs from US animals....
Haste & waste
My uncle once quipped to me that a see-through blouse is like a solar eclipse. You know what's there and you know it's interesting, but you're not supposed...
Death Tax relief
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Rep. John Salazar (D-CO) introduced legislation that would provide farmers and ranchers relief from the death tax. H.R. 3524, the Family Farm Preservation and Conservation Estate Tax Act...
Sign up for Livestock Indemnity Program
The Livestock Indemnity Program provides compensation to eligible livestock producers who have incurred livestock death losses in excess of normal mortality as a result of adverse weather....
Vilsack Doesn't Expect Strong Effort to Block Cap and Trade
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack met with farm broadcasters yesterday to repeat support for cap and trade legislation. ...
Livestock Care Bill on November Ballot
Nearly each Autumn, an out-of-state special interest group submits signatures to place a measure on the November ballot. ...
USDA/DOJ: Ag Competition Issues
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Eric Holder have announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) will hold joint public workshops to explore competition issues affecting the agriculture industry in the 21st century and the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement in that industry....
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Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
