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Slow Pacific-Rim Progress Begs The Question, "Why?"
This week, it was announced that Japan had agreed to discontinue inspections of entire meat shipments from the U.S. Both sides also agreed to speed up and facilitate Japan's inspection of U.S. plants to make implementation follow more quickly...
GIPSA Invokes New Rules For PSA Violations
USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) today published in the Federal Register changes to the rules of practice governing proceedings under the Packers and Stockyards Act (PSA). The changes, effective immediately, will allow...
Groups Provide Testimony On Livestock Competition
The Senate Agriculture Committee and the House Agriculture Livestock Subcommittee held hearings this week to review competition issues affecting the livestock and meat industries. There was a wide variation of opinions expressed...
Will National ID And COOL Be Married Up?
There's a lot at stake for the cattle industry in the upcoming farm bill. The cattle industry has always taken pride in not being subsidized and not accepting undue government meddling in our business...
Animal Welfare Requirements For Federal Meat Purchases
Competition means winners and losers
Ruling Halts Horse Slaughter In The U.S.
Ethanol, Corn Will Weigh On Livestock Industry
Future ethanol production and demand for distiller's grains will lead to lower cattle prices and higher consumer meat prices, David Anderson, a Texas Cooperative Extension economist, told attendees of the 2007 Texas Ag Forum in Austin recently...
Korean FTA Is A Critical Crossroads
Get ready to add a new acronym to your vocabulary -- KORUS FTA -- the Korean-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. On April 1, at the last possible moment, the U.S. and South Korea reached agreement...
Antibiotics measure introduced
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act. Her bill would...
Cattle-tick fight continues
Spinosad application is a useful addition to a tick-control program, say researchers at USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory...
Competition means winners and losers
Remember that bumper sticker from the mid 1970s, when agricultural economics became so disastrous that there were farmers crashing tractors into the local...
GIPSA study released
USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) released the GIPSA Livestock and Meat Marketing Study on the use and impacts of...
Competition bill
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Acts to correct deficiencies in USDA's enforcement over agricultural markets...
Illinois moves on horse harvest
An Illinois State Legislature bill could signal the end to horse slaughter in the U.S. The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Bob Molaro (D-Chicago), would...
Real-world realities
While some rejoiced at the news, other folks were disappointed with USDA's announcement last fall that the National Animal Identification System would...
Michigan Mandatory RFID Program Goes Well
Michigan's mandatory electronic-ID program for cattle went into effect March 1, and the nation's first statewide, comprehensive, electronic, animal-health tracking system for cattle ...
COOL Issues Heating Up Once Again
The political wrangling for the new farm bill is starting to hit high gear. One hint is the debate over country-of-origin labeling (COOL) in which both sides are pulling out the heavy artillery...
Timber wolf status
Gray wolves, or timber wolves, are off the endangered species list in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, the federal government announced last month...
Speed up COOL
Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) introduced S. 404, the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) Act of 2007, which would move...
Deal, or no deal?
March 30 is throw-down time for a U.S.-Korean free trade agreement (FTA). Any agreement must be concluded by then in order to allow for the 90-day review...
Meat Industry Competition Legislation Debuts
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced the "Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Acts to "correct deficiencies in USDA's enforcement over agricultural markets and provided needed protections ...
Estate tax repeal
Repeal of the estate tax, or death tax, as it's often termed by its detractors, has been long-championed by agricultural commodity and small-business...
USDA Presents FY '08 Budget
President Bush submitted a $2.9-trillion, fiscal year 2008 budget request with the goal of eliminating the deficit over five years...
Johanns Proposes Income Test For Program Payments
In his appearance before the National Cattlemen's Beef Association last week, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns said the administration wants to lower the adjusted gross income...
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Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
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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...
