The Food and Drug Administration decided yesterday to delay its plan to test milk samples for animal drug residues.

In order to receive Milk Income Loss Contract payments for January, dairy producers must sign-up today at their local Farm Service Agency offices.

With Rhea County schools closed Tuesday, teacher Kathy Shaver took advantage of her day off to try to use her double coupons to fill her weekly grocery list.The avid coupon-clipper from Evensville, Tenn., cut the $58 list price of her food items to only $28 with trips to both the Publix and Bi-Lo supermarkets in Hixson. But many items on her grocery list weren’t available and may not be available until weather conditions improve.

Two chain stores announced Saturday that they had pulled U.S.beef products from their shelves following the news that a banned drug used to promote leanness in meat had been detected in beef imported from the U.S.

Feed The World: Warnings of a global food shortage are cropping up in the news. This should not be happening in 2011. But while our technologies have advanced, our politics are still prehistoric.

The long-awaited report backs off on recommendations to support California milk solids standards nationwide.