Items Tagged with 'deforestation'

Soybean growers are criticizing what they call “unwarranted restrictions” on the use of a newly approved glufosinate product to protect endangered species. 

A Wisconsin poultry grower who contracted with Pure Prairie Poultry tells Agri-Pulse to expect lawsuits to be filed today over the company’s closure. The shutdown has resulted in roughly 2 million chickens left without fed and growers without a processor able to take them.

The European Commission is seeking a one-year delay in the implementation of an anti-deforestation law with implications for U.S. beef and soy producers as it looks for answers to a flurry of questions from the U.S. and its other trade partners about how such a policy would work.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Saturday that the Biden administration has no plans to intervene to stop a dockworker strike. He also told reporters lawmakers need to “get practical” in their farm bill negotiations.

The Senate Finance Committee used a hearing Thursday to highlight the fact that Brazilian packers are producing beef from cattle raised illegally on land once made up of lush Amazon jungle, and some of the beef from those animals may end up in the U.S. market, competing with U.S.-raised product.