Mike Following is a report on the USDA/APHIS meeting that was held in Billings to promote expanding ADT to feeder calves. Keep up the good work. We all depend upon your postings to keep up with what is really going on. Gilles May 30, 2017 No Mandatory ID of Feeder Calves The message was very…
Reproduction of the Farm and Food File, either mechanically or electronically, without permission of Alan Guebert is strictly prohibited. Farm and Food File for the week beginning Sunday, June 4, 2017 Meat and money always cook up corruption Alan Guebert Political scandals in Brazil, like much in the fast-growing, global food giant, are so bold…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2017 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome U.S. Withdrawal from Paris Accord Shirks Science, Neglects Devastating Impacts to Food System, Family Farms, and Future Generations WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced today that the U.S. will withdraw from the historic Paris Agreement, an accord among 192 nations to combat the potentially…
Calling Nebraska’s Livestock Brand Act unconstitutional, group of feedlot operators files suit to get rid of it · By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau · · June 1, 2017 LINCOLN — A group of unnamed Nebraska feedlot operators has turned to the federal courts to get rid of the state’s Livestock Brand Act. The Nebraska…
Western Ag Reporter Dave Wright says Al Capone would applaud NCBA’s schemes Published May 25, 2017 By Kerry Hoffschneider In 1977, the first beef checkoff vote was held, and Dave Wright’s grandfather, Earl Wright, loaded his grandkids up and headed out to make his opinion heard. “We told Grandpa we were not old enough to…
Owen Franklin Dornblazer was the 11th person to join The Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America in 1902. He lived to the age of 94 and was active in organizational and membership work until the final few months of his life. At age 85, addressing the 1926 NFU convention, he said, “There was nothing…
By Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg A Wall Street Journal analysis shows that since the 1990s, sparsely populated counties have replaced large cities as America’s most troubled areas by key measures of socioeconomic well-being—a decline that’s accelerating At the corner where East North Street meets North Cherry Street in the small Ohio town of Kenton,…
Did someone forward you this newsletter? Get your own copy by subscribing here. Farm Credit Mergers the Latest Threat to Independent Farmers The latest in a series of mergers that are remaking the business of farm credit in America will, in early July, bring together three lenders in the upper Midwest, AgStar Financial Services, Badgerland…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a petition for certiorari by six agriculture state attorneys general and governors that sought to overturn California’s landmark egg sales law, AB 1437. The denial in a case identified by the lead state of Missouri but also brought by Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky and Iowa was a victory for…