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The agency says a waiver would do little to reduce corn prices.
Program includes expedited review for drought-related loan requests, support for affiliated associations’ local drought-assistance efforts.
The following information was released by the Nebraska Corn Board:While the drought is having a profound impact on crop production, thanks to ethanol production there is a larger and more flexible corn supply than was available during previous droughts of this magnitude.Today’s USDA report confirms what we already knew that the drought’s impact on supply and price will be felt by corn consumers around the world, stated Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) Executive Director Monte Shaw. Yet, the ag sector has seen droughts before, and it will survive again. This is a time when all of agriculture should pull together. Unfortunately, national livestock trade associations have chosen to politicize the on-going drought as part of their multi-year effort to return corn prices to $2 per bushel.* (see below) At times like this, it is important to look past the rhetoric to the facts. And the fact is that ethanol production provides a benefit to Midwestern livestock producers in many ways.
Lawmakers and activist groups are calling on the U.S. government to lower the ethanol quota in the face of a possible domestic and international food crisis.
Facility resumes operations a week after USDA closed it down amid video allegations of dairy cow abuse. Company still is suspended from supplying meat to federal food programs.
You can use a microwave to test the moisture content of forage before you ensile or bale.
USDA takes correction action concerning the Meatless Monday blunder.
The border cattle gate at Columbus, N.M., that was shut down two months ago over safety concerns will reopen.New Mexico’s U.S. Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall announced that the White House agreed to resume cattle crossing operations contingent on some changes.
Nationwide hay use this past winter was reduced compared to last year due to mild weather conditions and record high prices.
An inspection group from Taiwan was scheduled to arrive in Washington Sunday to monitor beef safety in the United States after a case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), was found in a dairy cow in California last month.
The discovery of mad cow disease in the US this week could be a boon for Australia’s beef export industry but it is too early to make predictions, industry leaders say.
USDA is proposing to expand the contracting authority for the Beef Promotion and Research Program.
A BIGGER than expected drop in the US herd may offer a small reprieve for Australian beefexporters facing falls in Japan and Korea, analysis suggests.The US industry is still reeling after a USDA report counted beefcattle numbers at their lowest in 60 years.In its twice-yearly cattle report, the USDA pegged cattle and calves in the US as of January 1 at 90.8 million head, 2.1 per cent below the 92.7m a year ago and the lowest January 1 inventory of all cattle and calves since the 88.1m on hand in 1952.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the United States’ cattle herd has shrunk to its smallest size in 60 years, mostly because of a severe drought that has ravaged the southern plains. Beef prices have gone up 17 percent as a result. In the pastures near Hallsburg,Texas, ranchers are hanging on desperately, hoping for rain.
Pavilion D will be home to beef and livestock exhibitors, seminars, live cattle demonstrations and a ranching and livestock competition, Feb. 14-16 in Tulare, Calif.
The nation’s cattle inventory, scorched by a record-breaking drought in Texas, has plummeted to a 60-year low, triggering concerns that beef prices will spiral higher for consumers.
Logan Bower is one of four recipients of the Beef Quality Assurance Award.
U.S. Draws Opposition with Plan for Replacing Cattle brands with ID Tags.
Low cattle supplies in 2012 are expected to drive up beef prices for the second year in a row, stretching consumers still coping with high unemployment and only modest wage increases.
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has moved to limit the use of an antibiotic that is injected into livestock before slaughter, saying it could increase antibiotic resistance in humans.
The House voted 268-150 in favor of the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011; now it heads to the Senate.
The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011 now heads to the House floor with bipartisan support.
SAN ANTONIO - The searing drought has forced members of the largest livestock association in Texas to reduce their herds by almost 40 percent, but it has not shaken their confidence in the future of the industry.
FORT WORTH - This week, rancher Donnell Brown will do something he never thought his family’s spread would consider.The 106-year-old R.A. Brown Ranch will ship hundreds of beefcows, bred heifers and bulls 1,300 miles to Montana.Like a latter-day version of the 19th-century cattle drives by Charles Goodnight and Jesse Chisholm, tens of thousands of dogies are moving north.
On this Ohio cattle farm, escaping the pasture is not just a challenge -- it’s a way of life.
Cattle and sheep herds are being culled or completely liquidated on West Texas ranches as drought and heat bake away vegetation on the rocky hills and once fertile valleys.
EPA Region 7 announced today that it has issued administrative compliance orders to six concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, directing those operations to correct a range of violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
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