NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

Letter Dear Secretary Vilsack, We appreciate the ongoing efforts of your agency to respond to the outbreak of H5N1 in dairy cattle, especially the opportunity to regularly meet with you and your team to share information and concerns. We implore the agency to release guidance and financial support to dairy cattle auction barns and markets.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

million head of cattle and calves on U.S. 1, 2025, according to the Cattle report published by the U.S. 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 farms as of Jan. To protect U.S.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Some of the terms used on food labels are official certifications, enforced by the USDA or a nonprofit entity, and the presence of the certification means that the farming operation has been verified in some way for compliance. Below is a list of definitions for common phrases on food labels. Do you know what “cage-free” means?

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Food Tank

JANUARY 21, 2024

One of the biggest drivers for establishing Aleph Farms was to play meaningful roles in solving some of humanity’s biggest challenges, relating to food security, nature conservation, and climate action. Reducing food loss and food waste plays a major role in reaching such important goals. A recent report from the U.S.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factory farms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.

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Jayson Lusk

MAY 29, 2023

He explained that most dietary protein consumed in the United States is derived from animal sources, with poultry and meat as the top sources, followed by bread products, milk, cheese, eggs, plant-based protein foods, and seafood (Pasiakos et al., protein consumption comes from animal and dairy foods (Phillips et al.,

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Farmbrite

JANUARY 23, 2025

Animal Feed Recipes for Chicken, Cattle, Sheep, Goat, and Pig Feed Raising livestock can be a rewarding experience, whether you're doing it for fun, food, or as a full-time agricultural business. Local byproducts from farms, mills, or food processors (like unsold produce, leftover grains, or pulp) can be repurposed as animal feed.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

According to the company’s website , Choice Canning sells shrimp in more than 48,000 retail and food-service locations in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and flew back to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, he was told to “ship it” to the U.S. This is obscured to even a discerning reader of food labels.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 5, 2024

Since 2022, there have been four cases reported in humans and, more recently, more than 100 herds of dairy cattle in the US alone. This month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency updated its testing eligibility for cattle and said it would now cover some of the testing fees, to ensure any outbreaks are dealt with swiftly.

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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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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog post is the third in a series taking a deeper look at how federal market opportunities support the success of efficient regional food systems. Each year, USDA spends billions purchasing food for schools, food pantries, and community nutrition programs across rural and urban settings.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Agricultures (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the start of its National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) , which builds on measures taken by USDA and federal and state partners since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in dairy cattle was first detected in March 2024.

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NASDA

JUNE 15, 2023

The bipartisan bill would amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to confirm a regulatory path for non-nutritive animal food ingredients that act in the animal’s gut to provide production benefits, address human food safety concerns and affect the byproducts from digestion from the animal. farmers and ranchers.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Letter Dear Administrator Regan: The undersigned Members of Congress are writing about your agency’s recent actions that fail to recognize rendering as a critical food waste management strategy. This simple graphic conveys that organics should be recycled to achieve their highest and best use.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) confirms there is no food safety concerns about the nation’s pork supply after the detection of H5N1 influenza in swine on a small backyard farm in Oregon. iGENDEC is an advanced software tool designed to help cattle producers understand and improve their herd’s genetics.

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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. territories.

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Daily Yonder

MARCH 14, 2024

A long awaited rule that changes which meat and poultry goods can bear the label “Product of U.S.A.” food labels only be used on products derived from animals that were born, raised, and slaughtered within the United States. will give consumers better information and result in fairer compensation for U.S. The number of U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It does so by addressing acute issues for processors vital to our supply chain, and by promoting training programs that bolster the resilience of these processors, the farmers they work with, and food access for their communities. Sustaining funding for these programs is vital to continuing to build a more resilient and agile food system.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

With Loncor 300, Zoetis adds an amphenicol option to its market-leading cattle anti-infective portfolio. Join Casey Fanta and Dr. Erik Holum as they discuss how they use genetics and biosecurity to impact their seedstock at Wulf Cattle. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY). Randy Feenstra (IA) and Sanford Bishop (GA).

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Agwired

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For more than 30 years, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association has offered the annual Redbook to help cattle producers effectively and efficiently record their daily production efforts. The pocket-sized booklet simplifies recordkeeping, which can enhance profitability and reduce stress levels. milk production each week.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

poultry farms in 2022, nearly 100 million table egg laying hens have been affected. Chris Chaffee joins the Meat Institute as Director of Legislative Affairs working with Vice President of Legislative Affairs Nathan Fretz advocating for the meat and poultry industry with members of congress and federal officials. 4-6 in San Antonio.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s no wonder that hospital food gets a bad rap, says Santana Diaz, executive chef at the University of California Davis Medical Center, a sprawling, 142-acre campus located in Sacramento, California. As a seeming compromise between nutrition and institutional efficiency, food has long been dished up as an afterthought to patient care.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This marks the final investment in the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program (MPPEP), which has provided 74 awards totaling more than $325 million to expand processing capacity and strengthen the food supply chain. farmers, and create jobs in rural areas.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a bid to be totally true to his terroir—a French winemaking concept that aims to impart a combination of natural factors including soil, climate and sunlight to the glass—he’s working with a herd of indigenous cattle to “produce” compost. There’s also the increasing prevalence of diseases that are entering our food supply.

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Farmbrite

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This is where data becomes not only invaluable but imperative, helping farmers grow more food while conserving resources; farming smarter, not harder as the saying goes. And if we're smart, we can better understand how to grow the food consumers want, closer to where they live. What Kind of Data is Being Used?

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Agwired

AUGUST 7, 2023

poultry team. Keith Fleetwood has joined the company as a poultry account manager and feed mill specialist. In that role, he will provide support related to specialty ingredient, nutrition and premix sales for the company’s commercial poultry customers. Alltech announced two additions to its U.S. Nominations are due Oct.

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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. Then there’s the Walmart Foundation, which last year gave the Nature Conservancy $1.5

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

where over 170 attendees gathered to hear the latest ingredient, weather and market forecasts and discuss the ways this unique industry segment factors into cattle producers’ sustainability objectives. agriculture and global food and renewable energy systems. EPA and the universities will host the conference Nov.

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Agwired

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

million head of cattle and calves on U.S. 1, 2024, according to the Cattle report published by the U.S. The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) announced new members of the organization’s Executive Council as well as new directors for the group’s five Industry Segment Boards. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY).

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Agwired

JULY 11, 2024

Cattle producers discussed top issues facing the cattle industry including risk management, taxes, and business regulation. Andrew Jerome has been promoted to Vice President, Communications for the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA). Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) , is scheduled for Aug.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Collecting that farm-level data is a critical missing piece in the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) five-year plan , launched in 2019, to improve “antimicrobial stewardship” in animal agriculture, advocates say. Based on 2016 and 2017 data from 22 cattle feedlots, nearly 80 percent of antibiotics were administered in feed.

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Todays Farmer Magazine

APRIL 30, 2024

The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri celebrates its 40th year in 2024, but there wasn’t much celebratory news in FAPRI’s latest baseline projections. FAPRI’s annual outlook provides projections for agricultural and biofuel markets and serves as a point of reference for food and farm policy.

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Agwired

AUGUST 5, 2024

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) expressed its disappointment over the Food and Drug Administration and Association of American Feed Control Officials’ (AAFCO) announcements that they will be ending their longstanding relationship for the review of new animal food ingredients on Oct.

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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. A combination of drought and untimely rains led to much of the risk.

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Agwired

JANUARY 2, 2024

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association announced registration for the 2024 Cattle Raisers Convention & Expo taking place March 22-24, 2024 in downtown Fort Worth opened Jan. Poultry & Egg Harold E. AgTech Insight is delighted to support the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit on March 18-19, 2024.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Jacob, a first-generation farmer, is thankful for the support of his parents and credits his involvement showing cattle in 4-H as a teenager for his career in farming and conservation. Heaven’s Hollow Farm is a commercial Black Angus cow-calf operation that also includes pastured poultry and pork.

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Agwired

MARCH 26, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state veterinary and public health officials, are investigating an illness among primarily older dairy cows in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico that is causing decreased lactation, low appetite, and other symptoms.

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