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Strong export growth experienced across the nation in 2010 was capped by record numbers at many larger ports in November and the momentum is likely to continue in 2011, reports The Journal of Commerce.
French dairy group Sodiaal has reached an agreement to acquire struggling domestic rival Entremont Alliance. The move creates a dairy giant with over 7,000 employees and sufficient scale to participate in the ongoing consolidation in the European dairy sector.
It’s cleanup and rebuilding time for the Arkansas farming community after a New Year’s Eve tornado. A dairy farmer was among the dead.
The issue of market access for US agricultural products in India seems to have taken an ugly turn with US Secretary of agriculture Thomas Vilsack sending a strongly-worded letter to his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar, stating that the bilateral agricultural relationship will be “jeopardised” if India does not change its approach.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today commemorated the one year anniversary of an historic agreement to help U.S. dairy producers cut greenhouse gas emissions.
There may be fewer foodborne illness in the country than we previously thought -- almost 40% less, in fact. It’s not that the numbers of foodborne illnesses have suddenly decreased, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says its counts have become more precise.
Korean investors and North Dakota cattle ranchers plan a $90 million beef plant in the state that could process about 1,200 animals each day for overseas and domestic markets.
State Agriculture Department investigators Tuesday seized hundreds of gallons raw milk and other food produced by a Gibbon dairy farm that has kept churning out product despite a state order to stop.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Frank Lucas of Oklahoma issued the following statement after his colleagues in the House Republican Conference elected him to serve as Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee in the 112th Congress.
Holiday bakers could experience sticker shock at the grocery store as a variety of factors have sent the price of butter soaring in recent weeks.
A Portland couple has donated $860,000 to Oregon State University, part of which will endow a dairy professorship in the food science and technology department.
Ranchers and farmers worry about a lack of vets specializing in livestock.
The new company will be part of the firms’ existing Dairy Partners of America (DPA) joint venture and is to be called DPA Chile.
Grain prices moved higher this year and the costs of growing them are likely to do the same in the year ahead.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The office of Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., issued the following news release:U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today made the following statement on becoming the next Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry."I am ready to lead the Senate Agriculture Committee in the 112th Congress. Agriculture is critical to Michigan’s economy, employing a quarter of our workforce. Not only does agriculture create jobs and feed our families across America, but it is also helping us develop new fuels and energy sources.