NASDA

JANUARY 9, 2024

Regrettably, we must inform you that Mexico’s livestock and poultry industry is already running low on feed. If the crossings are not immediately reopened, Mexican livestock and poultry producers will need to begin making decisions that could include depopulating animals for humanitarian reasons.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Through actions rooted in science and research, the FDA aims to advance public health by supporting product innovation, developing, and implementing policy, and increasing public education. Our policies are always grounded in science and research,” Carroll tells Food Tank. What is the FDA’s role in the food system?

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Food Tank

MAY 29, 2024

Record rainfall in May 2024 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state, has caused destructive flooding that is wreaking havoc on the country’s agricultural and livestock sectors. Since 2000 Brazil has doubled the value of its agricultural output and tripled its livestock production, according to the Agency.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. And growing meat in the lab, from cultured stem cells in bioreactors will eliminate the need for raising livestock, and all the environmental havoc that goes with it. But raising insects for feed is a patch, not a solution.

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NASDA

JUNE 6, 2024

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. 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.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

King’s Poultry Farm in Bradford, Ohio. Building a new meat/poultry processing business or expanding an existing enterprise is extremely challenging. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Manalo. “I will say this program [MPPTA] provides a lot of hope to our smaller producers and processors.

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Caff

JULY 28, 2023

Fire Impacts to Eggs from Backyard Poultry – Maurice Ernest Pitesky- DVM, MPVM, Dipl ACVPM, Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. Executive Summary – Produce Safety After Urban Wildfire – Citizen Science Initiative. Engineering Geologist, California Geological Survey.

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Agwired

JULY 24, 2023

After a yearlong search, Purdue Animal Sciences has selected Hattie Duncan to lead its livestock judging team as well as the department’s newly formed livestock judging program. Poultry & Egg Association. Duncan is a Wingate, Indiana, native who was raised on a Hereford cattle farm.

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Agwired

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences awarded Nicolas DiLorenzo one of two grants totaling $10 million to reduce livestock methane emissions. Their work will create livestock feed additives to reduce the amount of methane produced during the digestive process.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, this includes provisions from the Agricultural Resilience Act , the Organic Science Research and Investment Act , and the Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act. Despite these positive steps, RPFSA falls short in several critical areas important to NSAC members.

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Agwired

JUNE 3, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) celebrated the 100-year anniversary of Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory and its past and present contributions to the livestock industry and scientific community. Poultry industry professionals from around the country recently met in Nashville, Tenn.,

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Agwired

JANUARY 16, 2024

Join the Livestock Publications Council for the January Coffee and Collaboration on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 10 a.m. Research from the University of California, Davis — published online in the Journal of Dairy Science (published in press Nov. The topics will focus on poultry diseases, animal welfare and food safety.

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Agwired

JUNE 18, 2024

Dairy Forage Research Center in partnership with UW–Madison CALS, the new facility and its associated buildings will house robotic milking systems, chambers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions, an advanced animal nutrition unit and state-of-the-art laboratories for agronomy and dairy science, as well as offices and a visitor center.

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NASDA

MAY 7, 2024

In recent years, states have seen dramatic increases in the number of fully inspected slaughter establishments, many of which are subject to state meat and poultry inspection. livestock industry. Reduced funding limits staff, including veterinarians, and makes response time slower, resulting in disruptions to operations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 10, 2024

Excessive proposed cost-share payments for livestock feed management. Requires producers with confined livestock feeding operations to submit a GHG emissions reduction plan, in addition to the currently required comprehensive nutrient management plan, to be eligible to receive payments under the program.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The focus, Colonial Williamsburg’s livestock husbander Darin Durham explains, is central to Colonial Williamsburg’s overarching mission of showing people what 18th-century colonial British American life looked like. Colonial Williamsburg Colonial Williamsburg has been preserving rare breeds of cattle, horses, oxen, sheep and fowl since 1986.

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Civil Eats

MARCH 4, 2024

Photo courtesy of Roots of Change) The term, a general reference to pasture management that prioritizes soil health and perennial plants by grazing livestock through rotated paddocks, encompasses a set of practices that advocates say results in healthier animals and pastures. Santana Diaz, Executive Chef, U.C. Davis Med Center.

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Modern Farmer

MAY 23, 2024

Farmers and gardeners often use livestock manure from poultry, cattle or horses. Mingchu Zhang, professor of soil science and agronomy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, cautions in an email about infectious organisms in dog poop that might survive composting. “That is perhaps why most cities prohibit it.”

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Agwired

MARCH 18, 2024

The farmer-funded National Dairy Council (NDC) organized the meeting, titled “Undercover Nutrition: A Symposium Decrypting Food and Dairy Matrix Science,” in Washington D.C., In response to growing domestic and international demand, Phibro Animal Health Corporation is expanding its manufacturing facility to support Animate.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 29, 2024

We have not typically observed compostable plastic particles in compost samples,” said Eric Roy, an associate professor of environmental sciences at the University of Vermont, who co-authored the meta-review and will soon be publishing original research on the topic.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. The bill was first introduced in 2019 and reintroduced in 2021 and 2023, but all three times, it languished in committee.

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CalCAN

APRIL 6, 2023

And energy- and livestock-intensive farming methods since then have continued to raise the sum of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, the goals for soil health receive more focus on grass-based livestock systems and nutrient budgeting. These two challenges, however, can be addressed by the same suite of solutions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

The FFNSA maintains the existing carveout that ensures livestock producers will receive 50% of total EQIP funding during the life of the farm bill. This long standing setaside has led to significant portions of EQIP spending going towards infrastructure practices of questionable environmental value.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At Upside’s facility in Emeryville, California, where the company spends weeks at a time growing poultry cells in drums, investors and pesky reporters tasting a cooked version of the final product have been asked to first acknowledge the lack of long-term health data. From that one cell, you can make billions of pounds of meat.”

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Production Food Technology Science 52

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: “managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.” 12113).

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The Lunatic Farmer

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts. Compare that to our pastured poultry model which requires 10 ft. We were castigated for being anti-science, anti-progress.

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Agwired

JANUARY 7, 2025

The 2025 International Livestock Congress will be held March 4-5, 2025, in Houston, Texas, during the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. This year’s topic will be “Effectively Communicating Sound Science and the Value of Animal Agriculture to Society.”

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The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Corporations across the food system increasingly have the power, by virtue of their size, market domination, political connections, and deep pockets, to set prices, meddle with science, evade regulation, and write the rules to benefit themselves. If anything in our lives is essential, it’s food and the means of producing it. The average U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Seeds planted over the past two years with the Biden Administration’s billion-dollar commitment to foster a more resilient, diverse, and equitable meat and poultry processing system are now beginning to sprout across the country and U.S.

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ATTRA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. They have also raised other livestock and poultry through the years. Sally and JP and their growing full-time and part-time staff raise certified naturally grown produce and pasture-raised, organic-fed pork, poultry, and eggs.

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Agwired

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This is a misguided effort by federal bureaucrats that will not make a meaningful difference to the success of the species but will impose a severe burden on rural communities and livestock producers. Poultry Tech Summit 2023 was hosted by WATT Global Media and Poultry Future on Nov. Dairy Management Inc.

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The Equation

AUGUST 10, 2023

For example, ranchers fatten cattle on grain during the final months of their lives in large-scale feedlots, which—along with massive hog and poultry feeding operations—are major sources of methane and nitrous oxide emissions, primarily due to the way cattle digest fiber and the mismanagement of open-air manure lagoons.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2024

Another notable USDA highlight included the release of its Equity Commission’s Final Report and the announcement of one of the Packers and Stockyards Act final rule s, designed to protect the rights of livestock and poultry producers.

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Agwired

JUNE 11, 2024

Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, the largest and oldest livestock association in the Southwest, announced applications are now open for the fall 2024 internship programs. Half-price registration is available now until June 30 for $125. From July 1 to Aug. 2, registration costs $250. Student registration is $50.

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Agwired

JULY 1, 2024

Department of Agriculture announced new action to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s plan for a fairer, more competitive, and more resilient meat and poultry supply chain. This will support farmers and growers, and continues President Biden’s work to lower food costs for consumers. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) was in attendance.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 20, 2024

The book details her journey to connect head (Western science) with heart (Indigenous worldview)—the latter of which she says is the “missing puzzle piece” in our efforts to re-establish planetary health amid an ongoing climate crisis.

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