Food Politics

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Antibiotics in agriculture: The blurred line between growth promotion and disease prevention. Analysis finds antimicrobial drug use in agriculture is much higher than reported. The use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is a long-standing issue. Where’s the FDA?

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – At today’s National Association of State Departments of Agriculture 2024 Annual Meeting , the Animal Agriculture Policy Committee hosted a panel focusing on recent outbreaks of H5 influenza in poultry and dairy populations and its impacts on “secure” plans for the livestock sector.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Press Release INDIANAPOLIS – Today during the 2024 National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Annual Meeting , United Kingdom Chief Veterinary Officer Christine Middlemiss addressed the Animal Agriculture Committee on the role of animal health and disease status in trade. territories.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry. The plant was originally sold as both a cheap feed for livestock and a way to replenish soil, but eventually lost favor due to its aggressive growth. and worldwide.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Passage of the bill will also help each state address its needs for public practice veterinarians (food safety, public health, epidemiology, pathology, molecular diagnostics, virology, toxicology, immunology, bacteriology, serology, foreign animal disease preparedness, and livestock infectious diseases).

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Food Tank

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“Nowadays, if you’re not willing to adapt or change your mindset, I just don’t think you’re going to make it,” says Trisha, whose approach to agriculture has evolved throughout her life. “I She studied agriculture in college and worked for a pesticide company for about a decade.

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

State departments of agriculture, like USDA, are dedicated to protecting farmers, farmworkers, and the workforce throughout the entire supply chain. As USDA continues to respond to this outbreak, we urge you to prioritize animal health and human health in the same manner you have dealt with H5N1 in poultry for many years.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Agricultures National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The United States Department of Agricultures Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the resumption of cattle and bison imports from Mexico. There were 86.7 million head of cattle and calves on U.S. farms as of Jan.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The American Livestock Markets and Dealers Association (ALMDA) has formally requested that USDA-APHIS delay the implementation or enforcement of the final rule on Use of Electronic Identification Eartags as Official Identification in Cattle and Bison (ADT Rule), scheduled to become effective today, November 5.

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ATTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Pennsylvania Center for Poultry and Livestock Excellence has $450,000 available for projects related to poultry, swine, sheep, and goat production in the Commonwealth. The priority areas for research in this funding round are biosecurity, animal agriculture infrastructure, applied research, and food security.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Y-TEX and Fort Supply Technologies (FST) are pleased to announce a new alliance to accelerate the availability, use and acceptance of ultra-high frequency (UHF) and low frequency (LF) technologies for the livestock industry. They have a reputation of making livestock tracking work for all segments of the beef supply chain.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As part of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s recent campaign to highlight careers in agriculture, Washington State Veterinarian Amber Itle recently shared more about her role’s impact for her community and state and why she loves working for her state’s agriculture department. “I

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Agwired

MARCH 27, 2025

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced new actions to reduce burdens on the U.S. New data from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service is beginning to shed light on the impact of beef and dairy crossbred cattle on the beef supply chain. The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) thanked the U.S. or Canada can apply.

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Farmbrite

MARCH 2, 2023

Agriculture is one of the most important industries in the world. While farming may be your first thought when it comes to agricultural jobs, there are actually hundreds of different specialties and niches within the industry, from scientists to economists and more. It provides us with food, clothing and shelter.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Livestock Publications Council (LPC) annually inducts one of its distinguished leaders into the Hall of Fame. LPC’s Headliner Award Program, inaugurated in 1980, salutes an individual for meritorious service to the livestock industry. Advancing Animal Agriculture.”

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Civil Eats

MAY 15, 2024

a number of scientists are pointing to one factor that could be driving the spread of its virus and its spillover from wild birds to farm animals. Waterfowl—ducks, geese, and swans—are the primary host of the viruses, and large animal agriculture facilities are often found in close proximity to their remaining wetland habitats.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2025

The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) and Public Lands Council (PLC) hailed the House passage of two significant land management bills that are strongly supported by Americas livestock producers: the ACRES Act and the Fix Our Forests Act. Grotegut Dairy Farm of Newton, Wisc.

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

Dozens of countries have already approved these feed ingredients and those farmers and ranchers are safely using these products, yielding results that improve animal production and well-being, diminish pre-harvest food safety concerns, and boost sustainability opportunities for dairy, livestock and poultry farmers. Adisseo USA, Inc.

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Food Tank

JUNE 12, 2024

“We’re living in a time when the health of our planet is in peril, and regenerative agriculture offers a beacon of hope,” Pollard tells Food Tank. “By These include economic pressures, consumer preferences and lobbying by large agricultural corporations. Founded in 2016 by Cliff Pollard in the Bay Area of California, Cream Co.

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ATTRA

JULY 29, 2024

An international team of scientists concluded that when social, economic, and political factors are considered, intensive animal agriculture could contribute to the risk of infectious diseases developing.

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Agwired

JUNE 14, 2024

Daniel Lefebvre, President, ICAR, and Brent Kemp, President and CEO, AgGateway Representatives from AgGateway and the International Committee on Animal Recording (ICAR) recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to improve digital interoperability in animal agriculture applications.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. What is the “right” approach to meat? Questions such as who benefits? Who holds the power? Who has access to “better” meat?

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

We are on the cusp of the deepest, fastest, most consequential disruption in food and agricultural production since the first domestication of plants and animals ten thousand years ago. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. And these think tanks continue to crank out their nonsense.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) announced it has joined the steering committee of the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA). Livestock Marketing Association members have a front-row seat to a disturbing trend: the continued loss of livestock producers across the U.S. The deadline entry is Jan.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. Going to Florida on vacation isn’t always an option for a livestock farmer. Today, the majority (75 percent) of U.S. Most people wake up, eat, and eat.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 24, 2024

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow’s (D-MI) Farm Bill proposal would strengthen these programs without harming SNAP.” Millions of people receive SNAP benefits in the US.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

NPPC continues to work closely with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services and pork industry stakeholders on disease surveillance programs.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 6, 2023

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ When packers own animals, they are able to pull from their own supply when prices go up, instead of buying from farmers on the open market.

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Agwired

AUGUST 26, 2024

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) will begin accepting nominations for the fourth Cohort of the Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders. Members of the program work together on applied-learning, small-group capstone projects, which will incorporate topics of interest in animal agriculture.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After years of philanthropic support for fisheries, water, and education, members of his generation (along with some of their elders) are not only accelerating that environmental focus, they’re applying it to food and agriculture in new ways. He also passed on a significant stake in Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, with $611.3

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But a small group of policymakers are putting this much-needed economic opportunity at risk through the misguided Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act (S.2019 Prop 12 is the right thing for both the animals and farmers, but it needs to be done in a structured manner where pork producers have support and dedicated markets.

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Agwired

JANUARY 17, 2024

Rabobank’s RaboResearch F&A group is a global team of more than 80 analysts who monitor and evaluate global market events that affect food and agriculture worldwide. He brings a hands-on farming and livestock background combined with 10 years of industry experience in market research and data analysis and agricultural marketing.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Aspen Workman, a scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), has been honored with the 2023 Arthur S. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) welcomed the Farm Bill framework released by Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR).

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Agwired

AUGUST 13, 2024

The National Pork Board (NPB) partnered with the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) to convene a group of public health, animal health and swine professionals in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to build relationships and explore opportunities for One Health collaborations. The deadline for nominations is Oct.

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Agwired

MAY 28, 2024

Central Stockyards, LLC, a livestock marketing service that hosts the weekly Fed Cattle Exchange, has expanded its team and is preparing for the addition of Canadian feedyard and packer participation in its weekly sales. Brent Difley has been named Business Development Director for Canada.

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 13, 2024

“I think collective action is key, whether it’s Food and Water Watch or any other environmental organization that’s working on factory farm issues, or environmental issues around agriculture, where you can have a sphere of influence. Don’t just do this on your own.” Find yours here.

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Agwired

OCTOBER 30, 2024

billion pounds of food waste of which more than 75% was recycled into organic, nutrient-rich animal feed or made into customized formulations to address specific dietary concerns of cattle. billion pounds of food waste into animal feed resulted in an approximate avoidance of 780,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) in 2023.

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