HSUS, other groups sue Trump administration for speeding up chicken slaughter February 25, A coalition including the Humane Society of the United States today sued the Trump administration for allowing chicken slaughterhouses to dial up the breakneck speeds at which they kill birds. The increase, announced in 2018, allows slaughterhouses that receive a waiver from…

Eivaisla/iStock/Getty Images Plus Groups concerned about Brazilian beef access Concerns of NCBA, OCM and R-CALF USA differ, but include food safety and destabilizing U.S. industry. Feb 24, 2020 The Feb. 21 decision by the U.S. to reopen fresh beef trade with Brazil has raised concern among commodity organizations. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association said while…

Fueling Beef Monopoly Expansion, U.S. Lifts Two-Year Ban on Brazilian Beef Imports February 23, 2020 OCM Staff On Friday, February 21, the United States reopened its border to fresh beef from Brazil after a more than two-year ban, according to a letter sent by the Food Safety and Inspection Service to the Brazilian agriculture minister,…

African and Brazilian Beef Imports Are Deliberate Attempt to Destabilize U.S. Cattle Industry For Immediate Release: February 24, 2020 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard said today that the Agriculture Secretary’s opening the U.S. market to fresh beef imports from Brazil and Namibia, Africa,…

Licensed U.S. Dairy Farms Dropped 8.8% Last Year Jim Dickrell February 21, 2020 12:33 PM Ohlde Dairy – Steve Ohlde – Linn Kansas ( Wyatt Bechtel ) The United States Department of Agriculture released its average annual count of licensed dairy farms in the United States today, showing a decline of 3,281 farms. According to…

U.S. Lifts Ban on Brazil Beef Imports After More Than Two Years By Samy Adghirni February 21, 2020, 3:37 PM MST Decision was announced by Brazil Agriculture Minister President Bolsonaro is set to meet with Trump in March The U.S. has reopened its doors to fresh beef from Brazil after a more than two-year ban,…

IN OUR VOICE Editorial: Transparency in agricultural checkoffs welcomed February 19, 2020 5 hrs ago Apiece of legislation has brought together liberal Congressman Mark Pocan and conservative Congressman Matt Gaetz. The same piece of legislation has brought together liberal U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and conservative U.S. Sen. Mike Lee. The same piece of legislation has…

Editorial: Michael Bloomberg has some fence-mending to do with America’s farmers · Editorial staff 2.18.20 Michael Bloomberg THE ASSOCIATED PRESS That was quite the statement former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made about farmers. His description was behind the times by only about 3,000 years. In farming, he told an audience, you just dig…

Food and agribusiness giants have locked up the marketplace through a business model that contains key tools of control that – not unlike the tentacles of a vine – strangle the life out of others. These tentacles include vertical integration, whereby a corporation takes control of an entire supply chain; abuse of checkoff program funds…

Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death A predatory and extractive financial sector has hollowed out communities across the US. By Nick Shaxson February 18, 2020 Losing ground: US farm output has more than doubled since the 1850s, but farmers like Ray Martinmaas in Orient, South Dakota, aren’t benefiting. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington…