Items Tagged with 'American Sheep Industry Association'

The fate of a 500,000-head capacity Superior Farms plant, estimated to represent between 15% and 20% of the nation’s total lamb processing capacity, will soon be in Denver voters’ hands as they consider a referendum that would shut down its operations by 2026 and ban any future meatpacking businesses from entering the city and county.

Daniel Mathieson has been tapped as the next president of the Americas for Driscoll’s, and Stacy McBride has been named Husch Blackwell Strategies’ first executive vice president of federal government affairs.

More than a dozen farm groups are formally supporting a pair of Idaho landowners in a Supreme Court case that could determine the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act.

The Biden administration has selected five state leaders to Rural Development and Farm Service Agency offices and the National Pork Board has tapped Dustin Oedekoven as the organization’s new chief veterinarian.

The Department of Labor (DOL) is publishing today its 2022 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR), which are the minimum an employer must pay H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural workers, and proposing some changes to how those rates are set for certain jobs.

Congressional Democrats have slashed in half their original $3.5 trillion spending plan, but many of the key climate-related ag provisions escaped unscathed.

In this opinion piece, a coalition of livestock industry groups discuss the urgent need for immigration reforms that meet labor needs in the industry.

Livestock producers are welcoming the first “significant purchase” of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine by the Department of Agriculture to stockpile a new vaccine bank.