Category Archives: Agriculture News
Cal Students Selected For USDA Ag Outlook Forum Student Diversity Program
USDA has announced the 30 university students it has chosen based on their essays regarding Agriculture as a Career to attend the 2015 Agricultural Outlook Forum in Virginia February 19th and 20th. Ag...
Jan 29, 2015
Pork Supplies Greatly Increase
The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. hogs are trading at four-year lows in the futures market, which was a bright spot this past year. Sterling Marketing president John Nalivka told the Journal the th...
Jan 28, 2015
Producers Urged to Apply Now for Conservation Innovation Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for up to $20-million dollars in grants for environmental markets and conservation finance p...
Jan 27, 2015
Foster Farms Reports Avian Influenza in Stanislaus County Turkey Ranch.
Foster Farms has released the following information.Foster Farmers maintains an ongoing early detection program for avian influenza as part of its stringent testing and biosecurity program.As part of ...
Jan 26, 2015
New Study Confirms Meat Labels Do Not Impact Cattle Exports to U.S.
A new study by Auburn University professor Dr. Robert Taylor shows Country-of-Origin Labeling did not cause the declines in livestock exports to the United States, which coincided with a substantial g...
Jan 23, 2015
Proposed New Food Safety Rules for Poultry
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed new federal standards to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in ground chicken, turkey products and raw chicken breasts, legs and wings. US...
Jan 22, 2015
Researchers May Have Found a Way to Prevent &Treat E. Coli Infections
Scientists at the University of Glasgow have discovered an amino acid produced in the human brain that could help prevent or treat infection from E. coli O157. Through the study of the genome sequence...
Jan 21, 2015
Ethanol Industry Say Senators Amendment Wrong Move
California Senator Diane Feinstein, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey and Arizona Senator Jeff Flake have sponsored the Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act of 2015. Growth Energy CEO Tom Buis says this...
Jan 19, 2015
2015 Strategic Plan in Place for Farm Bureau
The American Farm Bureau Federation’s board of directors set the organizations 2015 strategic plan for public policy this week. AFBF President Bob Stallman says the organization will work to adv...
Jan 16, 2015
New Regional Conservation Partnership Program Helps Various Projects in U.S.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced 115 high-impact projects across the U.S. and Puerto Rico will receive more than 370-million dollars of Federal funding as part of the new USDA Regio...
Jan 15, 2015
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