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Research has found that producers’ attitudes toward the beef checkoff program remain stable and are favorable.
BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Now we turn from politics to food prices, specifically a noticeable rise in prices. They’re way up in some cases, and the experts who watch these things say they’ll keep going up over the coming months as farmers struggle with bad weather and lousy harvests as a result. But is there any relief in sight?
Listen up, urban dwellers. The Ohio State Fair opens today in Columbus, so here’s your chance to pretend you know a thing or two about agriculture. To help out, we’re offering a brief cattle primer to help you sort Holsteins from Herefords.
A record amount of corn was planted in Ohio this year, providing a sharp turnaround from a month ago when many farmers thought the entire season might get washed out by weeks of heavy rain.Some excellent weather in early June and increasingly advanced growing methods are credited with the change in fortunes.The amount of corn produced per acre isn’t expected to be at record levels because of the late start, but farmers and experts now think yields could at least be average.
The 2011 wheat crop has resulted in mainly low yields as harvest winds down for another season throughout the Lone Star State. Because of extreme drought conditions, the Kasberg Grain Co. in Miles, 73 miles southwest of Abilene, handled approximately 25 percent of normal volume compared with years with adequate rainfall.
New Mexico State University is partnering with Texas A&M and other universities across the country on a $9.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to research bovine respiratory disease and how to reduce its prevalence in beef and dairy cattle.
Texas’ farmers and ranchers are coping with their eighth drought in the last 13 years, and this one, while still young, has a chance of slamming producers with their biggest losses ever, officials said.
The Agriculture Department would be barred, under language in a House appropriations bill, from proceeding with proposed marketing regulations opposed by major meatpackers and livestock trade groups.The House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee approved the draft fiscal 2012 spending bill, including the provision, by voice vote on Tuesday. The bill would provide $17.3 billion in discretionary funds to the Agriculture Department, Food and Drug Administration and related agencies, a $2.6 billion cut from fiscal 2011. The measure also includes $108 billion in mandatory funding, almost 3 percent more than in fiscal 2011.The policy rider would bar the Agriculture Department’s Grain Inspection Stockyard and Packers Administration (GIPSA) from producing a regulation requiring meatpackers to report and justify pricing agreements with livestock producers. The proposed rule, unveiled last year, was written in response to a 2008 farm law (PL 110-246) directive to review marketing and competition issues in the livestock industry.
This lightweight, compact 24-row planter and applicator leave no tracks—and they don’t hog the road.
The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society said yesterday it had nothing to fear from a new US beef brand being sold in the UK.Black Angus is being stocked by Tesco at a small number of its UK stores.
They say the Environmental Protection Agency’s numeric nutrient criteria is flawed.
During the seven-year drought of the 1950s, the old-timers of that era told tales about the drought of the 1930s being worse: “Why, it was so dry that jackrabbits west of the Pecos grazed at full gallop to keep from starving to death.”
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that U.S. producers are now eligible to ship a larger array of U.S. beef and beef products to Chile.
Tom Jones from Pottsville, Ark., was elected during the 2011 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in this past week Denver, Colo.
Pennsylvania’s John Ligo of LiTerra Farms received the annual national Beef Quality Assurance award.
The American Veterinary Medical Association’s new video shows how to reduce pain for cattle during dehorning.
Read through these stories which paint a picture of the year that was and what’s ahead for agriculture.
Tips following several reports of farm buildings going down in western Wisconsin.
The measure are meant to ensure humane treatment and slaughter of all cattle
There are no clear-cut timelines that dictate when to get involved during a difficult calving.
Farm Journal’s Washington Editor Roger Bernard is covering the event today.
A diversity of grasses and legumes improves production and flexibility.
Current law would have a ‘devastating effect’ on farms and ranches
For years, American taxpayers have subsidized ethanol production in a bid to boost the nation’s energy independence.Now a boom in ethanol exports is drawing fresh criticism of that tax credit, which cost taxpayers $6 billion last year.The United States this year became a net exporter of corn-based ethanol, exporting more than it imports, as a spike in the price of sugar-based ethanol made by Brazil has given U.S. ethanol a leg up on prices.