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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Reducing methane emitted by dairy and beef cattle is crucial for meeting a new global pledge to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas worldwide by about a third by the end of the decade.
The Agriculture Department is recruiting owners of cattle and hog operations to take part in surveys about their marketing strategies and the size and health of their herds, and officials say the results could be beneficial in future trade negotiations.
The citrus industry in Texas is expected to lose hundreds of millions of dollars due to last week’s winter storm, but other sectors say it may take weeks before economic impacts are fully known.
U.S. dairy farms welcome a jump in milk prices, but market joy is clouded by a battering of feed crops, long-term economic stress for many, and probable disappearance of USDA payments.
WASHINGTON, September 27, 2017—Livestock haulers have lost discretionary control over their livelihoods and risk endangering the lives of the animals they transport because of a one-size-fits-all Department of Transportation Hours of Service (HOS) rule and the Electronic Logging Device that aggressively monitors it, industry experts and agricultural groups say.
WISCONSIN, June 21, 2017 - A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered international dairy conglomerate Arla Foods to halt its new $30 million ‘Live Unprocessed’ ad campaign.
