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Grocery store sales growth in January was up 4.5% from twelve months earlier, the biggest monthly year-over-year gain since January 2015.

To kill or not to kill — that is the question over which animal activists wax eloquent, with the answer inevitably being ‘Never!’ But is that proscription a moral absolute, or an existential variable?

Farmers are predicted to plant 2 million acres more soybeans this compared to 2017, according to Allendale’s annual nationwide producer survey.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has mixed feelings on the metals tariffs.

Learn how to take your calf and heifer program to the next step on the podium by attending the 2018 Dairy Calf and Heifer Association (DCHA) annual conference.

Greenpeace has released a global plan to save the world from cowboys, gauchos, sheepherders and other vermin on its list.

This student-led initiative did not alter the menu items available through UI [University of Iowa]Housing & Dining. The menu items highlighted were simply part of the standard rotation available to students.

Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam with the University of California-Davis will speak to attendees at the 2018 Stakeholders Summit, sponsored by the Animal Agriculture Alliance.

An industry association has petitioned USDA to enforce its own rules on the labeling of shamburgers and other faux factory foods made with biotech and ingredient formulations.

Amazon says it is introducing two-hour delivery of Whole Foods groceries through Prime Now.

On Thursday, the USDA released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, showing corn is seeing increased exports and reduced stocks.

If you watch one of the countless cooking shows on TV and think, “I could do that,” you aren’t alone.

USDA projects a drop in farm income

Yet another incident in which consumers — gasp! — witnessed workers moving meat that hadn’t been portioned and packaged provokes more outrage . . . but (finally!) some pushback.

Under IRS regulations, a 1099 form should be issued to certain non-employees who perform services and are paid over $600 in a calendar year.

If your daily nutritional supplements include rattlesnake pills, you’ll want to know that the CDC has linked one person’s Salmonella Oranienburg infection to taking those pills.

With the new year straight ahead, there’s no better time for farmers and ranchers to take stock of where they are financially in order to put them in the best tax situation possible.

Surveys are revealing consumers also want food labeled for DNA. U.S. Farm Report's Tyne Morgan shares her thoughts.

New research suggests previous livestock methane emission data relied on outdated factors and do not fully consider feed intake or the facilities used to store manure.

How can we do better at moving manure from farmstead to field, quickly, safely, and environmentally consciously?

Animal ag proponents typically argue that eating meat and dairy — in moderation, of course — won’t harm anyone’s health. Now a new study says not eating those foods is the real problem.

Some inventions take years, or even decades, to be fully appreciated for their impact on society. Other potentially revolutionary products arrive way too soon — especially the Meat Biscuit.

Columnist Dan Murphy asks: Can an employee who works in an institutional kitchen steal more than a million dollars’ worth of beef? And get away with it for nearly a decade? Unfortunately, the answer is, Yes he can.

It’s been 35 years, but President Reagan’s message to rural America on October 15, 1982 still resounds with farmers and ranchers.

Health food from a vending machine sounds like an oxymoron, but that’s exactly what a San Francisco-based startup called leCupboard claims to offer.

Shoplifting’s a perennial problem, but the anti-theft measures typically employed to secure ‘big-ticket’ electronics are now migrating to a new area: the supermarket meat department.

What’s wrong with a football team serving its players hundreds of pounds of beef every week? Nothing — unless you consider where it’s coming from.

What’s not to like about that headline? Which is exactly what the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks were hoping in an email to fans to get them excited for the team’s season opener last week.

For every successful foodservice chain operating hundreds of stores, there’s a similar number of once-and-future failures. Some got rolled by bigger competitors; others dug their own graves.

It comes as no surprise to people with common sense, but it’s refreshing to see research reviews that put the real cause of chronic disease in the spotlight.

It is estimated that globally, every dollar invested in CGIAR since 1971 has produced $9 worth of additional food.

"We forgot to understand that what we are really dealing with here is the integrity and the perception of the food consumers eat, especially in the area of animal protein," said Jerome Lyman, a former vice president at McDonald's Corp. 

Earlier hopes that Japan would accommodate more imports of agricultural products with lower tariffs took a beating this weekend when the nation's negotiator made it clear rice, wheat, barley, beef, pork, dairy products, sugar and starch crops are considered politically sensitive products that have to be protected.

SDSU Extension has developed tools to help evaluate the relative costs of two different feedstuffs.

Higher pork and poultry production more than offset lower beef production.

Lower than expected pork and poultry production more than offset a higher beef production forecast..

Livestock groups petition EPA for one-year waiver of ethanol production mandate.

The proposed rule sparked controversy due to what was referred to as a serious overreach of EPA’s authority.

The forecasts for 2012-2013 red meat and poultry production are reduced from last month as higher feed prices are expected to slow expansion and temper growth in weights.

Total U.S. meat production in 2013 is projected to be above 2012 as higher pork and poultry production more than offsets continued declines in beef production.

Three documents published today in the Federal Register.

The production forecast increase is raised due to increased broiler and turkey production, while beef production is lower.

The production forecast increase is raised due to increased broiler and turkey production, while beef production is lower.

The 2012 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is raised from last month, largely reflecting increased pork production.

In some states, manure application on frozen ground is prohibited, while some states provide the option with certain limits.

The 2012 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is raised from last month, largely reflecting increased pork production.

President Obama signs the Free Trade Agreements approved by Congress last week, and all that's left is implementation.

The pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea represent nearly $2.5 billion in new agriculture exports.

For 2011, beef and broiler production forecasts are reduced, but pork and turkey production is increased.

The 2011 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is raised reflecting higher beef production, but lower pork production.