Articles Tagged with ''National Chicken Council''

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: National 4-H Council hires Godwin, Meat Institute and NCC elect new officers, Hockstad joins CBA

10/23/24 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

Matthew Jaffe was tapped as acting assistant United States trade representative for trade policy coordination. The American Soybean Association promoted Blair Shipp to state policy communications manager.

The National 4-H Council hired Natalie Godwin as vice president of corporate communications. The Meat Institute elected key new officers, executive board members and its full board of directors members for 2025. Corteva appointed Judd O’Connor as executive vice president of the Seed Business Unit effective December 1.

USDA proposes framework to prevent salmonella contamination, illnesses

07/29/24 2:51 PM By Rebekah Alvey

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed a framework that would prevent some poultry products contaminated with certain salmonella levels from entering the market, and make those items subject to recall.

Farm Hands West: Endean joins Department of Water Resources

06/19/24 7:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

The Washington Apple Commission has tapped Michael Schadler as president. A University of Washington graduate, Schadler has been executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange and coordinated international marketing programs for the Florida Department of Citrus.

USDA imposes salmonella limit on some chicken products

04/26/24 1:16 PM By Rebekah Alvey

The Agriculture Department is officially declaring salmonella an adulterant in some chicken products, barring the sale of any that are contaminated.

USDA tries to find how H5N1 avian influenza spread to dairy cows

04/24/24 6:15 AM By Steve Davies

Dairy cattle transported from Texas have been implicated in the spread of the H5N1, or bird flu, virus found in at least four of the seven states outside of Texas that have reported infections, according to states where H5N1 has been found.

Rendering left out of federal food waste strategy, groups say

02/14/24 6:23 AM By Noah Wicks

Agriculture groups and state-level agencies are calling on the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to give rendering a greater role in their proposed strategy for reducing food loss and waste.

Super Bowl chicken consumption estimated at 1.45B wings

02/07/24 6:03 AM By Spencer Chase

One of the biggest days of the year for chicken wing consumption is coming up, and the National Chicken Council expects another massive quantity to be consumed as Americans watch Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Environmental justice, meat capacity goals clash in slaughterhouse discharge proposal

01/31/24 6:18 AM By Steve Davies

A new proposal to reduce wastewater discharges from meat and poultry slaughterhouses and processing plants has the Environmental Protection Agency facing criticism from both environmentalists and the meat industry.

New bill would mandate wording on meat alternative labels

01/30/24 10:00 AM By Spencer Chase

Legislation introduced Tuesday would require the use of “imitation” or some other similar terminology on labels of plant-based meat alternatives sold in American grocery stores.

Poultry rule requires integrators to share more info with growers

11/08/23 3:54 PM By Noah Wicks

Poultry integrators will have to provide more financial information to prospective or current growers before entering into contracts with them, under a USDA final rule designed to increase transparency and prevent discrimination in the industry.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 8, 2024: Glickman, Johanns on Trump presidency ag impact

Donald Trump won the presidency and the GOP won control of the Senate this week. Some House race votes are still being tallied.

We sat down with two former agriculture secretaries, Dan Glickman from the Clinton administration and Mike Johanns from the Bush administration, to discuss what could be ahead regarding trade and immigration policy, as well as the possible role of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Trump administration.

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