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RFS waiver denied
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson denied the request by Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a waiver of 50% of the Renewable Fuel...
E-Verify renewed
The House of Representatives has voted to reauthorize the E-Verify program, a voluntary program also known as the Basic Pilot Program, which allows employers...
COOL'S Devilish Details
The devil is always in the detail, and USDA's interim final rule on mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) is no exception. In the week after USDA...
For better or worse
Earlier this year, despite the steady and alarming rise in the cost of food and fuel hitting their clientele, America's food retailers were optimistic....
No early out
USDA Secretary Ed Schafer says USDA won't allow early out for Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts without penalty. Schafer says market conditions...
Maintain Farm Program Payments For Small Farms
Twenty-five senators have written USDA Secretary Ed Schafer concerning the implementation of the farm bill provision that eliminates producers from receiving direct...
New Food Bills Introduced To U.S. Senate
Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Barack Obama (D-IL) have introduced bills aimed at addressing weaknesses exposed by recent Salmonella saintpaul outbreaks in produce...
McCain Wallops Obama In Minnesota Farm Country
The Minnesota Farm Bureau Public Policy Team conducted a straw poll for the Presidential race last week at the Farm Bureau tent at Farmfest in Redwood County, MN. The results showed ...
Losing Is Often The Next Best Thing To Winning
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week denied the petition filed by the State of Texas to reduce the Renewable Fuels Standard for ethanol. While some were dismayed at EPA’s logic in stating...
When Will We Have An Answer On JBS?
That was the question on most minds during the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) meeting this week in Colorado Springs. However, Douglas Ross...
President To Veto Second Farm Bill
The White House expects to receive the second farm bill early next week when President George W. Bush returns from Europe...
House Members Urge No Change In RFS
Over 30 Congressional Members led by Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) and Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Johnson urging him to preserve the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)...
FSA County Committee Nominations
USDA announced farmer and rancher candidate nominations for local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees begins June 15 and continues through Aug. 1. To be eligible to serve...
Decision Reached In Hage Case
The long and winding saga of the fight between Nevada ranchers Wayne and Jean Hage and the U.S. Forest Service appears to be over...
This election could devastate us
Don't get excited, I won't give my opinion of the candidates or look at how they stand on issues important to the cattle industry and agriculture in general....
USDA Buys $50 Million Of Pork
USDA plans to purchase up to $50 million of pork products that will be donated to child nutrition and other domestic food assistance programs...
Memories for November
The job of growing markets for U.S. beef just got a bit tougher, thanks to House Democrats. In early April, President Bush placed the U.S.-Colombia free-trade...
Getting The UPPER HAND
Despite setbacks in 2007, beef industry leaders believe they're doing a good job of keeping pathogens at bay when it comes to their products. They also...
Losing Immigrant Labor
Even before Homeland Security put a ratchet to the threads of American commerce, few were willing to discuss it openly. And now, with the elevated threat...
Violative residues
The elimination of violative residues in beef is one of the most important elements facing ranchers and cattle feeders in producing safe food products....
Lessons in consolidation
You likely cringed upon first hearing last month that Brazil-based JBS S.A. (JBS) acquired National Beef and Smithfield Beef Group (SBG) the nation's...
California Nightmare
The tentacles of the largest beef recall in history – 143,383,823 lbs. – have reached all across the country. If the surreptitious video of exhausted and disabled dairy cattle being tortured...
USDA ag projections
USDA released its 10-year agriculture projections in February, and it anticipates a drop in production of all meats for the next few years as more and more corn is diverted to ethanol...
And Nebraska makes 10
Nebraska is the 10th state to register at least 50% of its livestock premises under the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Meanwhile, USDA's...
NAFTA is now 100%
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was fully implemented Jan. 1. Thus, the last remaining trade restrictions were removed for U.S. exports...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
