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Thompson, Stabenow offer opposing farm bill plans amid ongoing partisan battle

05/01/24 5:00 AM By Philip Brasher

Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees announced dueling plans for a new farm bill as the partisan impasse appeared to deepen ahead of the House panel’s planned votes on May 23. House Ag Chairman Glenn Thompson released a broad summary of his planned legislation, and his Senate counterpart, Debbie Stabenow, followed with a much more detailed section-by-section summary of her draft bill.



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Feral swine population a threat to export markets

12/02/20 6:21 AM By Jaclyn Krymowski
Earlier this year, Germany faced a $1 billion loss in access to pork export markets after a single case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was detected in a wild boar. The population of feral swine in the United States, estimated between 4-9 million, also poses a threat to export security.
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Opinion: USDA agencies team up to take on feral swine

06/20/19 9:30 AM By Matt Lohr and Kevin Shea
A September 2006 outbreak of E.coli in 26 states that sickened more than 200 people and led to the deaths of three may have been caused by feral swine roaming on a central California spinach farm, according to a study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
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