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Tyson sued over claims of false advertising

07/24/19 6:05 AM By Chloé Fowler

Major food retailer and producer Tyson Foods Inc. is being sued over allegations it does not practice the same standards it promotes in its advertising.

DOJ investigating price fixing in chicken industry

06/26/19 6:06 AM By Steve Davies

The Justice Department is seeking to intervene in a case alleging price fixing by major poultry manufacturers, in order to ensure the integrity of grand jury deliberations in a criminal investigation exploring the same allegations.

Mexico opening doors to more imported chicken

05/29/19 6:04 AM By Spencer Chase

The Mexican government will allow 55,000 additional tons of tariff-free chicken as the country works through an avian flu outbreak.

American ag sows the seeds for foreign markets of the future

03/19/19 10:00 AM By Bill Tomson

Farm groups are scouring the globe and painstakingly laying the groundwork for trade over the next two decades.

European opposition to change on ag and food safety runs deep

01/23/19 6:41 AM By Bill Tomson

The U.S. and the EU both want a new trade pact to bring together two of the largest economic forces in the world, but agriculture is standing firmly in the way.

Farmers, rural businesses object to proposed SBA loans restriction

12/12/18 6:11 AM By Ed Maixner

The Small Business Administration has heard from over 2,700 farmers, including poultry feeders, and rural small businesses and others mostly opposed to amendments to the SBA's Express Loans regulation that would make any operator getting more than 85 percent of revenue from a single source (rather than a usual 70 percent SBA ceiling) ineligible for those loans

Brexit plan seen as disaster for US-UK trade

11/16/18 6:17 PM By Bill Tomson

The deal unveiled this week for Britain to exit the European Union would block U.S. plans to negotiate a free trade agreement with the U.K., preventing a new opening for American agricultural trade with the country, several British officials tell Agri-Pulse.

What's in, what's out of the new USMCA for US ag

10/10/18 6:35 AM By Bill Tomson

The biotech portion of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is just one example of several new ag provisions that were added during the overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA 2.0 as some are calling it - over the past year of negotiations.

New criteria to increase poultry line speeds likely to spark lawsuit

10/03/18 6:24 AM By Steve Davies

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service's new criteria for allowing young chicken slaughter plants to increase their line speeds from 140 birds per minute to 175 bpm are likely to prompt a lawsuit from food safety and worker protection groups.

President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Plenty of wins for US ag in new US-Canada-Mexico trade deal

10/01/18 4:04 PM By Bill Tomson

U.S. farm groups are cheering the last-minute deal struck Sunday night to keep Canada in the newly renamed North American trade pact with the U.S. and Mexico.

Open Mic: Duane Highley, CEO, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association

This week’s Open Mic guest is Duane Highley, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. This western cooperative is embracing the growing need for electric power among its one million customers and 200,000 square miles of challenging terrain with an “all of the above” approach to power generation. Highley says the cooperative is utilizing advanced battery technology to add wind and solar generation to the base load capacity of the system. At the state and federal level, Highley says rural cooperatives need faster permitting, less regulatory red tape, and better access to funds to assist in generating and delivering power to rural America.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Dec. 13, 2024: Sen. Boozman on farm bill, RFK, Rollins

Republicans will take control of the Senate in January, making John Boozman chairman of the Senate Ag Committee. We asked him about his plans for the committee, including collaborating with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who's in line to be the ranking member, and how Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees may influence agriculture.

Then, Laura Wood from LWP Consulting and Invariant’s Danielle Beck discuss the contentious House Ag Committee ranking member race and the future of the farm bill in a new Congress.

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