Many industrial feedlots see routine use of antibiotics as essential. Some cattlemen disagree, calling them “performance enhancing drugs.” By Danny Hakim | March 23, 2018 Ben Holland holds a Mason jar, tilting it slightly to show the powdery 90 milligrams of the antibiotic tylosin inside. “It’s about the amount that one animal gets in a…
Howdy, Since the government of China owns Smithfied, and is the largest hog producer and hog processor in the U.S. and in the world, will they put a tariff on their own in house production? How does that cash flow stream work? J John K. Hansen, President Nebraska Farmers Union 1305 Plum Street, Lincoln, NE…
R-CALF USA For Immediate Release: March 22, 2018 Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa www.r-calfusa.com R-CALF USA Applauds President Trump’s Trade Policy Shift Billings, Mont. – In response to today’s White House announcement that President Trump will impose additional trade-related sanctions against China’s unfair trade practices, including new tariffs on agricultural…
Media Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa www.r-calfusa.com Group Presents NAFTA Message on Capitol Hill: "Mend It or End It" Washington, D.C. – Last week, R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard participated on a panel on Capitol Hill sponsored by the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) to discuss the ongoing North American…
by Paul Brennan | March 21, 2018 Update: Additional information, including the time and location of a memorial service, has been added to this story since it was first published. Sonia Kendrick, founder of Feed Iowa First, has died. News of Kendrick’s death began circulating on social media on Tuesday evening, but no details have…
By Doug Bock Clark | March 19, 2018 How lax regulation made it cheaper for China to outsource pork production – and all of its environmental and human costs – to the U.S. In July 2013, Larry Pope, the CEO of Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in America, was called to testify before a…
By Elon Glucklich | The Register-Guard | March 20, 2018 Workers received no warning before the plants were shut down Bartels Packing has closed its Eugene and Fern Ridge Lake-area slaughterhouse and meat packing operations, costing 142 workers their jobs and shuttering a 120-year-old business. The firm closed its plants last Wednesday with no warning…
by Robert Anglen In just one example, peanuts are trucked into Oklahoma. But that doesn’t stop a peanut butter manufacturer from getting a “Made in Oklahoma” brand. Here’s why. Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story gave an incorrect location for Route 11 Potato Chips. It has a processing plant in Mount Jackson,…
Published by Adam on March 18, 2018 Nineteen chickens gather around Steve Oliveri in anticipation. He pours dry food onto the ground from a white, five-gallon bucket. The work of the moment is done. Steve, 29, is a caretaker of Flying Pig Farm in Manitou Springs, along with Elsa Kendall, Barak Ben-Amots and Alex Hare….
By Twilight Greenaway | Animal Welfare, Rural Environment and Agriculture Project | 03.20.18 The Western Organization of Resource Councils has been an unrelenting grassroots critic of Big Ag for decades. Now its members want to enlist urban eaters in the fight. The residents of Devils Lake, North Dakota have seen huge changes in recent years….