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USDA To Unveil NAIS "Business Plan" This Fall
USDA's effort to register America's livestock premises is "picking up momentum," says Bruce Knight, USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. As of Aug. 20...
No New ID Funding In House Appropriations Bill
The House of Representatives passed its fiscal year 2008 ag appropriations bill prior to leaving for its summer recess. The bill includes $18.817 billion in discretionary spending, which is $1.002 billion more than last year's bill. ...
TPA expires
Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which gives the president the ability to negotiate trade agreements with a straight up-or-down vote by Congress, expired...
Canada feed regs
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced that bovine specified risk material (SRM) will be banned from all animal feed, pet food and fertilizer,...
EPA Web site
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new Web site for producers. It contains a search tool for finding federal regulations that may apply...
Downer rule is permanent
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) permanently banned the slaughter of downer cattle (animals unable to stand or walk when presented for...
Bye, bye, birdie
The bald eagle was removed from the list of threatened and endangered species at a Washington, D.C. ceremony in July. With 9,789 breeding pairs in the...
Ag competition bill introduced
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Herb Kohl (D-WI), and John Thune (R-SD) introduced legislation on agricultural competition. The measure would coordinate...
New facility dedicated
USDA dedicated a new, $85-million, high-containment, large-animal facility in Ames, IA, last month. The facility combines several research facilities...
Support U.S. beef
Taking advantage of the patriotism surrounding the July 4 holiday, A&W restaurants launched Moove to American, a marketing campaign to promote consumption...
The COOL Compromise Is Typical Of The Beltway
After years of delaying the implementation of mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) because of the problems associated with the law, it had come down to crunch time. ...
Administration Threatens To Veto The Farm Bill
The administration this week threatened to veto the House Ag Committee's passed farm bill, saying it doesn't provide enough reform of the commodities title and needs to lower payment limitations....
Animal Rights Activities Still A Concern
Animal rights activists are completely committed to putting you out of business, says Kay Johnson, and they are working on many fronts to achieve their goal. ...
Farm Bill Moves Forward In The House
The House Ag Committee's passed farm bill was to be considered by the full House at the end of this week. The budget has been a driving force during the farm bill debate. ...
COOL comment period reopens
USDA has reopened the comment period for 60 days for the proposed rule for mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for beef, lamb, pork, perishable...
Disaster assistance signed
President George Bush signed the Iraq supplemental appropriations bill that included a $3-billion, ag-disaster assistance program. It would provide assistance...
Limit farm payments
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced S. 1486, the Rural America Preservation Act, which would limit farm program payments...
The New Flavor Of The Farm Bill
In years past, most of agriculture was on the same page. Packers, processors, feedlots, cow-calf producers, corn growers, and even the competing protein products, were mostly on the same side of the fence when it came to the farm bill. In fact, there was ...
A Look At Washington
The late political columnist Molly Ivins once described a Congressional recess as a time when villages across the U.S. recalled their idiots. Of course,...
Don't Expect Any Movement On COOL This Summer
While the farm bill normally would be the preeminent piece of legislation everyone would be talking about at this juncture, it will be hard for any issue to displace the Iraq military situation,...
COOL More Valuable As A Non-Reality
Few issues have been more controversial and divisive in the cattle industry than country-of-origin labeling (COOL). With the 2007 farm bill debate heating up, its front-and-center position is assured...
Estate-tax feedback
The subject of the spring 2007 issue estate planning was most appropriate and timely. Regarding the article, Estate Tax Repeal, many writers and congressmen...
Limit on farm payments
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) introduced an amendment to limit to $250,000 the amount of farm payments an individual can receive....
Move up COOL
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) proposed an amendment to the Iraq war supplemental appropriations bill that would have moved the implementation date for mandatory...
Slow Pacific-Rim Progress Begs The Question, "Why?"
This week, it was announced that Japan had agreed to discontinue inspections of entire meat shipments from the U.S. Both sides also agreed to speed up and facilitate Japan's inspection of U.S. plants to make implementation follow more quickly...
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