Billings, Mont. – In a joint letter sent today to President Donald J. Trump, several local, state and national cattle trade associations urge the appointment of Sonny Perdue as the nation’s next Agriculture Secretary and Charles W. Herbster as his Deputy Secretary. Perdue, a former governor of Georgia, previously practiced veterinary medicine and started three…
Posted March 1, 2017 – 11:00am By SEAN WHALEY REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU CARSON CITY — A U.S. District Court judge has ordered a Nevada ranching family engaged in a long-running dispute with federal agencies to pay $587,000 for grazing cattle on BLM and Forest Service lands without permission. The order dated Feb. 27 from Gloria…
By JAMES REBANKS March 1, 2017 MATTERDALE, England — I am a traditional small farmer in the North of England. I farm sheep in a mountainous landscape, the Lake District fells. It is a farming system that dates back as many as 4,500 years. A remarkable survival. My flock grazes a mountain alongside 10 other…
By Simon Jette-Nantel, UW-Extension Center for Dairy Profitability Hoard’s Dairyman Intel | Feb. 27 2017 08:04 AM Among all major dairy exporters, the U.S. is the only country that has seen growth in production in the last few months. Growth in milk production comes mostly from larger operations, and the trend appears to be accelerating….
Posted: February 29, 2017 (Denver, CO) American Grassfed Association’s Board of Directors has given final approval to the new AGA Grassfed Dairy Standards. More than a year in development, the standard is the result of the work of a diverse group of stakeholders, including representatives from AGA, Organic Valley, Maple Hill Creamery, Traders Point Farm…
February 25, 2017 | Michaeleen Doucleff / Jane Greenhalgh It was a balmy Sunday evening in early 1999, and Dr. Kaw Bing Chua hadn’t had lunch or dinner. There wasn’t time to eat. Chua was chasing a killer. And he thought maybe he had finally tracked it down. He slid the slide under the microscope…
By HIROKO TABUCHI, CLAIRE RIGBY and JEREMY WHITE | FEB. 24, 2017 A decade after the “Save the Rainforest” movement captured the world’s imagination, Cargill and other food giants are pushing deeper into the wilderness. COLONIA BERLIN, Bolivia — A few months ago, a representative from Cargill traveled to this remote colony in Bolivia’s eastern…
By Zephyr Teachout February 21 His record shows he probably won’t help rein in corporate power. One of the most important questions for analyzing a potential Supreme Court justice is how he or she understands economic and political power: Who should govern? How should power be distributed in a society? In the case of Neil…