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Local Activists in Animal Agriculture-Heavy Areas Fight Nitrate Pollution

Daily Yonder

The Lower Yakima Valley in Washington state has been home to large-scale animal agriculture for decades, but in 2008 when one dairy operation tried moving onto the Yakima Indian Reservation, the community balked at the proposition.

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Letter Supporting Rural Veterinary Workforce Act

NASDA

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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Letter to USDA Regarding H5N1 Outbreak in Dairy Cattle

NASDA

Livestock auction barns and markets, as a result of the federal order, have faced an undue burden and a significant financial loss due to a decrease in sales. We implore the agency to release guidance and financial support to dairy cattle auction barns and markets.

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Animal Ag News 10/23

Agwired

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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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

The impact of this disruption on industrial animal farming will be profound. All other livestock industries will suffer a similar fate, while the knock-on effects for crop farmers and businesses throughout the value chain will be severe. Other livestock markets such as chicken, pig, and fish will follow a similar trajectory.

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Op-Ed | California Crate-Free Law Offers Hog Farmers Economic Opportunity

Food Tank

Not only does the law align with our animal care values, it also creates a stable market for crate-free pork that corporate commitments alone can’t provide. I’ve seen it time and time again: a company pledges to meet a certain attribute but walks it back with a leadership change or when market conditions shift.

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Nurturing a Path to Success for Small, Sustainable Sheepherders

Food Tank

Niman Ranch farmers and ranchers adhere to high standards of sustainable and humane farming practices, and in exchange, they receive a guaranteed market for their product and access to a network of resources. In 2022 lamb market prices fell by more than 50 percent across the U.S. “If lamb only for distributors that require it. “In

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