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An effort by commodity organizations to keep advocacy groups from using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to attack checkoff programs à which raise money for research and promotion initiatives à may lack the legislative teeth to have a significant impact.

The Bee Informed Partnership reported in its annual survey Tuesday that beekeepers lost 44 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year ending March 31, up from 40.6 percent in the previous year.

Planning on sending some wheat to Canada? Be prepared to take a hit on the quality à and price à of your grain. American wheat producers and exporters are expressing concern that when wheat is exported to their neighbor to the north, it is graded as feed grain. Wheat grow

The Margin Protection Program (MPP), the primary safety net for dairy farmers, isn@t working out as well as expected, and efforts are already under way to make changes for the next farm bill, according to lawmakers and industry officials.

Are farmers and ranchers doing enough to curb unnecessary antibiotic use in their operations? Two expert panelists who spoke at last Thursdayàs Animal Agriculture Alliance meeting said yes à and encouraged attendees to get the word out.

Livestock and poultry growers and the meat industry got a sobering warning last week from a communications expert and a pair of theologians: The vegetarian animal rights movement is prevailing in the competition for public opinion over how animals are raised and consumed.

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The U.S. dairy industry is asking the White House to join its campaign to persuade the World Health Organization to revamp a proposal it says would discourage the consumption of dairy products by young children.

The U.S. is again challenging China at the World Trade Organization over the country s antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. broiler chicken, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced Tuesday.

USDA on Tuesday projected a record corn crop of 14.4 billion bushels, up 829 million from last year and 214 million bushels more than the previous high in 2014.