Ag Policy Blog Chris Clayton DTN Ag Policy Editor Bio Thursday 01/10/13 FDA Refutes Article on GMO Labeling A spokesman for the Food & Drug Administration on Thursday refuted an article posted on an organic group’s website that had stated FDA officials had been holding closed-door meetings with representatives from major food companies. The article…
Groups establish farm animal abuse hotline 12:11 AM, Jan 11, 2013 Denny Harding Written by Dan Piller The Iowa Farm Animal Care Coalition’s hotline number is 800-252-0577. Animal abuse also can be reported to the group’s website, www.iowafarmanimalcare.org. Iowa agriculture groups have started a coalition to hear and investigate complaints of animal cruelty. The public…
Northern Beef Packers completes final round of financing By Michael Fielding on 1/10/2013 Northern Beef Packers has completed its final round of financing, finalizing the loan agreements Wednesday with its lending partners and bringing the total financing raised to more than $150 million, according to a company press release. During the initial start-up phase, Northern…
Matt Taibbi at Skylight Studio in New York, 10/27/10. (photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) More Secrets and Lies of the Bailout By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 09 January 13 have a feature in the new issue of Rolling Stone called "Secrets and Lies of the Bailout," which focuses in large part on the seemingly intentional policy…
HOUSTON – More than 100 blockaders stormed the lobby of TransCanada’s Keystone XL office in Houston this morning. Protesters danced, spilled black ‘tar sands’ balloons and hung neon orange hazard tape to highlight the deadly effects of TransCanada’s corporate greed on communities and ecosystems. After being forced out of the lobby by police, the protesters…
Beef 01/08/13 – Cattle wrangle, Hogs flat 01/08/13 – Beef Consumption to Fall 01/08/13 – Cattle feeders near breakeven 01/08/13 – Cow herd expansion in 2013? 01/08/13 – OIE chief- end Brazil beef ban 01/08/13 – Rancher to fight beef checkoff 01/08/13 – Record year for CAB 01/08/13 – 2013 beef production, consumpt 01/08/13 –…
Report to Producers on the Traceability For Livestock Moving Interstate Rule Gilles Stockton: Member of the Secretary of Agriculture’s Advisory Committee on Animal Health Grassroots livestock producers are to be congratulated for their persistence in insisting on interstate livestock traceability requirements that are practical and effective. It has been a long ten year process since…
Mike, Every year the North American Agricultural Journalists holds a contest seeking the best reporting done on agricultural topics. Since my involvement began with NAAJ I’ve tried to help broaden both the contest and membership by reaching out through various avenues to get reporters and editors to submit their materials for our contest. With that,…
Monday, January 7, 2013 SEC Gives JP Morgan and Other Big Banks License to Manipulate Commodities An SEC action that appears likely to do considerable harm to companies and individuals in the US and abroad appears to have gone completely unnoticed, save for an important piece in The New Republic by Linda Khan. Heretofore, as…