USDA Settles a Packers and Stockyards Case with Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation Feb 14, 2024 The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision with Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation (Cargill) of Wichita, Kan., on Feb. 5, 2024, for violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. An investigation by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)…
Op-Ed by Gilles Stockton, Montana Cattlemen’s Association Director This is the year to reinstate Country-of-Origin-Labeling (COOL) for beef. Actually, last year was the year to reinstate COOL – along with all of the other priorities that are supposed to be re-authorized in the Farm Bill. If Congress does not address COOL now, it will be…
Farmer-led protests in Europe continue in many countries. Protest leaders and masses of farmers are rejecting the concessions offered early on by the European Union Brussels center, and by national governments. Farmers, plus truckers and others, including fishermen, are demanding real change. There is hot conflict from place to place. The EU is on the…
Supporters seek to take ’emotion’ out of decisions; opponents say it removes public hearings and public input to ease OKs of more confinement operations BY: PAUL HAMMEL – FEBRUARY 7, 2024 Pork producers who own a processing plant in Fremont include Gov. Jim Pillen, the plant received a $25 million federal grant. (Keith Weller/USDA Agricultural…
Nationwide French farmer protests BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 15: Free-range hogs belonging to demonstrating farmers arrive to graze in front of the German federal chancellery on January 15, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The pigs, which are not treated with hormones or antibiotics except in medical emergencies and are only fed with non-genetically-modified food, were brought…
Posted onFebruary 4, 2024byMike Callicrate Callicrate note: Several years ago, in a conversation with John, we discussed the use of a new term describing what I thought was a better kind of agriculture. Since “sustainable” had been stolen by big corporate ag, I suggested the word “regenerative” better described the kind of agriculture I wanted…
As the Ogallala Aquifer dwindles, rural towns try to keep their sole water source. MOSCOW, Kansas — Brownie Wilson pulls off a remote dirt road right through a steep ditch and onto a farmer’s field. He hops out of his white Silverado pickup, mud covering nearly all of it except the Kansas Geological Survey logo stuck…
Callicrate note: I’m with Mexico February 2, 2024 By Larry Lee Filed Under: Ag Exports, Ag Policy, Corn, Crops, News, Trade, USTR Farmers heard an update on Mexico’s genetically modified corn ban during Wisconsin’s Corn-Soy-Pork Expo. During a panel discussion on market development, Neal Caskey with the National Corn Growers Association said the U.S. Trade…
January 30, 2024 Hello Mike, The latest on the farmers’ protests in Europe is, they are HUGE. Some notes from our friends there, and media, etc. are below. The German Farmers uprising has really spread. One new aspect of this is that the demands from farmers in different places add up to reflecting the principles…