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Estate tax repeal
Repeal of the estate tax, or death tax, as it's often termed by its detractors, has been long-championed by agricultural commodity and small-business...
USDA Presents FY '08 Budget
President Bush submitted a $2.9-trillion, fiscal year 2008 budget request with the goal of eliminating the deficit over five years...
Johanns Proposes Income Test For Program Payments
In his appearance before the National Cattlemen's Beef Association last week, USDA Secretary Mike Johanns said the administration wants to lower the adjusted gross income...
Senators Call For Hold on Canadian Cattle Rule
Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), and John Thune (R-SD) have asked USDA Secretary Mike Johanns to withdraw USDA's proposed rule...
Study: 70% Of Producers Approve Of Checkoff
Approval of the beef checkoff program is 70%, according to the latest biannual survey of producer attitudes about the checkoff commissioned by the...
Cattlemen Must Engage In Writing New Farm Bill
The cattle industry has always prided itself on its peripheral position in past farm-bill debates. But this year, with a shrinking ag budget and seemingly more divergent goals...
U.N. blasts cattle production
A U.N. report takes aim at the world's livestock industry but particularly singles out beef production, calling for the taxing of beef products as a way...
Food Safety To Get Look-See
The Democrat-led Congress plans to make food safety a top priority, which could include placing all governmental food safety divisions under a single...
USDA evaluates prion-free cattle
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists evaluated cattle genetically modified to not produce prions, and determined there were no observable adverse...
Senators speak out on cloned meat and milk
A number of U.S. Senators wrote the Secretary of Health and Human Services recently about their concerns with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans...
APHIS wants change in Bangs regulations
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) wants to amend the brucellosis regulations to allow for research on brucellosis-exposed or infected...
Immigration raids pose industry dilemma
The raid by the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel on six Swift & Company plants dominated the news...
U.S. lags in emergency preparedness
Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. emergency health preparedness is still wanting, says the report, Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from...
Canada border rule published
USDA published its proposed rule last month to allow the importation of live cattle more than 30 months of age, and beef products from such animals, from...
Massachusetts, Virginia Bills Look To Undercut NAIS
President Bush Calls For More Ethanol Production
Appeals Court Kills Texas Horse Slaughter
Energy Takes Center Stage This Week
Groups Call For Priority On Competition Issues
Small Business Tax Relief Introduced
House AG Committee Membership Now Set
Disaster Aid Legislation Introduced
DOJ Charges 148 Detainees From Swift Raids
Cattle Materials Ban In Medical Products Proposed
Packer Feeding Ban Legislation Introduced
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Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
