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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NASDA

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Each proposed rulemaking or agency action requires a significant amount of stakeholder engagement and competing timelines and comment periods have not provided NASDA members, nor the agricultural employers and producers in their states, enough time for thorough review and comment. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021, a 5.4%

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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. High food prices and supply chain insecurities are only some of the challenges that farmers struggle with every season.

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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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Agwired

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The convention will feature local farm tours, educational seminars, Holstein Association USAs Annual meeting, contests and workshops for Junior Holstein members, award recognitions, and much more. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): On behalf our nations dairy supply chain, IDFA congratulates Mr. Kennedy on his confirmation as U.S.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also provides an inside look at efforts underway to usher the federal regulation of animal food into the 21st century and steps the industry is taking to better protect animal and human health while producing safer, more sustainable food. The issue has been brought to the national forefront in recent years, as the U.S.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

In chicken, the four biggest companies —Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride (owned by JBS), Wayne-Sanderson Farms, and Mountaire—control more than half of the market. However, the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture is one activity that has driven the development of dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In the U.S.,

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The Lunatic Farmer

JANUARY 18, 2024

This means that by 2030, modern food products will be higher quality and cost less than half as much to produce as the animal-derived products they replace. The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. will have fallen by 50 percent and the cattle farming industry will be all but bankrupt.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

It also provides an inside look at efforts underway to usher the federal regulation of animal food into the 21st century and steps the industry is taking to better protect animal and human health while producing safer, more sustainable food. The issue has been brought to the national forefront in recent years, as the U.S.

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Agwired

JANUARY 29, 2024

International Dairy Foods Association released the first ever State of Women in Dairy report to provide IDFA members and dairy industry with data-based metrics and recommendations to support gender equality across the entire supply chain. Schreiber Foods Inc. The award is presented each year by IDFA and Dairy Herd Management magazine.

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

Poultry & Egg Association is now accepting nominations for the 2024 Family Farm Environmental Excellence Award. Those eligible for the award include any family-owned poultry grower or egg producer supplying product to a USPOULTRY member or an independent producer who is a USPOULTRY member. Nominations are due Oct.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Alltech Wisconsin presented the 2023 Most Valuable Employee (MVE) Award to Carlos Galvan of Weltzien Farms in Arcadia, Wisconsin. In recognition of his lifetime of exemplary leadership and service in the agriculture industry, Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) honored Ed Mullins, former CEO of Prairie Farms Dairy, with the 2023 Charles B.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Good Meat Project , a national nonprofit, is on a mission to catalyze marketplace innovation, connection, and education across the meat supply chain in order to increase the economic viability and ecological impact of livestock farmers who invest in healthy land, animals, and people.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Through captivating case studies, Thurow’s hopeful book showcases farmers who have boldly gone against the grain of modern agriculture orthodoxy and are instead embracing regenerative practices—like agroecology and permaculture—that restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, and promote resilience against climate change.

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Agwired

APRIL 1, 2024

farms, up 1 percent from March 2023 but down 2 percent from Dec. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Merck Animal Health announced it has received license approval from the U.S. As of March 1, there were 74.6 million hogs and pigs on U.S.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

As a result, butterfat levels in the national milk supply have risen sharply in response to changing demand patterns and dairy market dynamics. milk pricing system through the Federal Milk Marketing Order hearing process and legislatively through the farm bill. American Foods Group sponsored the event.

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Agwired

APRIL 29, 2024

Get ready for a fish-out-of-water journey into the world of dairy farming with Emmy-nominated sketch comedian and actress Vanessa Bayer. and takes viewers behind the scenes at Beck Farms, a fourth-generation dairy in upstate New York. Further, the federal PMO prohibits milk from sick cows from entering the food supply chain.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

America’s cattle producers need a Secretary of Agriculture who will protect family farms and ranches, roll back crushing regulations, and stand up for rural values—and we look forward to working with Secretary-Designate Rollins to make it happen.” 5 during CattleCon 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

“I think it’s a serious mistake,” said Andre Delattre, the senior vice president and COO for programs at the Public Interest Network , which has advocated for reducing antibiotic use on farms as a matter of public interest for years. the largest volume of antibiotics are used in animal agriculture. In the U.S., ” U.S.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is deeply disappointed in Congress decision to relinquish their responsibility to produce a new Farm Bill and an overdue federal solution for California Proposition 12. This award recognizes one outstanding dairy farm employee in Wisconsin, Minnesota or northern Illinois each year.

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Agwired

JANUARY 13, 2025

The National Institute for Animal Agriculture will host animal agriculture leaders will discuss the current state of research and treatment for lameness across food animal species before the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia, January 27-28. greenhouse gas emissions.

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NASDA

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Funding these programs will allow NASDA to continue building state regulatory programs required by FSMA and educate and train the farm and food sectors on compliance. The education, outreach, and training provided by state programs, and PSA are critical to meeting FSMA’s mandate and ensuring a safe food supply. livestock industry.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

On May 1, 2024 – after months of stalled farm bill negotiations on both sides of Capitol Hill – Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) released a detailed section-by-section summary of her farm bill proposal. Strengthening the Farm and Food System Workforce (Sec. 11205, 12201).

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Agwired

MAY 6, 2024

Speakers at the event include Lance Honig, Agricultural Statistics Board (ASB) chair, and Troy Joshua, ASB executive director and director of NASS’s Statistics Division. Data from other NASS products as well as from USDA’s Farm Service Agency and Risk Management Agency will be discussed. Tony Rice testified before USTR on how U.S.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 24, 2024

40 Acres & A Mule Project , United States 40 Acres & A Mule seeks to acquire Black-owned farmland to be used to celebrate and preserve the history, food, and stories of Black culture in food and farming. promoting environmentally sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on their land.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When record levels of precipitation triggered extreme floods that devastated agricultural communities, ALAS was among the first organizations to respond and help the region’s farm workers and their families. Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) , United States FLOC empowers farm workers to have a voice in decisions that impact them.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) annual emissions inventory report showed that emissions from the agricultural sector dropped by nearly 2 percent, falling from 10.6 In response, the American Farm Bureau’s president, Zippy Duvall, attributed the shift to U.S. In response, the U.S.

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Agwired

JULY 1, 2024

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) expanded ELAP through the rule-making process to assist with a portion of financial losses resulting from reduced milk production when cattle are removed from commercial milking in dairy herds having a confirmed positive H5N1 test. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

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Food Politics

AUGUST 15, 2023

I try to keep up with what’s going on with the Farm Bill, up for renewal soon. This Farm Bill Could Reshape the Food System. BY LISA HELD, AUGUST 9, 2023 Reauthorizing the farm bill every five years generally involves contentious debates and delays as legislators and lobbyists hash out a wide range of competing priorities.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 9, 2023

Reauthorizing the farm bill every five years generally involves contentious debates and delays as legislators and lobbyists hash out a wide range of competing priorities. More than 600 farm, nutrition, and public health organizations support expanding the program.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This is the latest installment of our series Faces of the Farm Bill , where in we set out to humanize the real-world impacts of ag policy. The 2018 Farm Bill expired on September 30th, and it doesn’t seem likely that the House and Senate will have drafts of the new bill before the end of the year.

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