Pork producers from around the country spent the week in Washington D.C. for their biannual legislative fly-in of the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). Their top priority for the 130 producers from 20 states was easily the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. In addition, they urged their senators and representatives to include funding in the next Farm Bill for a Foot … Read More
BQA Free Certification Period Announced
Time for beef and dairy producers to become Beef Quality Assurance (BQA)-certified free online through Nov. 13 thanks to Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI). Anyone who becomes certified during this period is eligible to win a prize package, courtesy of BIVI and the BQA program, funded in part by the beef checkoff. The BQA program is important to the cattle … Read More
FARM Program, Merck Offer Animal Health Webinars
The Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) Program , which is administered by the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), has announced that it is teaming up with Merck Animal Health to offer a series of animal health webinars that will further build upon the strong partnership established last year between the Merck Dairy Care365 Program and the FARM Program. This decision … Read More
NCBA 2017 National Anthem Contest
Are you a singing star who wants to be a part of the 2017 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in Nashville, Tennessee? National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s (NCBA) fourth annual National Anthem Singing Contest is now open. Contestants must be 18 or younger and related to an NCBA, ANCW or CBB member. The contest winner will sing the Star … Read More
USMEF Hosts Producers From Ecuador
On this week’s audio report from the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF), USMEF Technical Services Manager Cheyenne McEndaffer reflects on last week’s visit from a team of food and livestock industry leaders from Ecuador. The team visited the USMEF Denver headquarters to learn more about the U.S. meat industry and USMEF’s role in expanding global exports of U.S. beef, pork … Read More
BLM Recommends Increased Management of Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board has recommended that significant management changes be made to address the exploding population of wild horses, and the animal welfare catastrophe that has resulting from the population increase. Dave Eliason, president of the Public Lands Council (PLC), said this is a step in the right direction. “As a … Read More
FDA Accepting Comments on GFI #213
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that the agency is entering the next phase of efforts to mitigate antimicrobial resistance through Guidance for Industry #213 (GFI #213), which will, once fully implemented, limit the use of medically important antibiotics to therapeutic-only use under the oversight of a veterinarian. The FDA has announced that it is shifting its … Read More
New Afimilk Application Detects Prolonged Labor
Afimilk, Ltd. has integrated a new Calving Alert service with a prolonged calving application into its AfiAct II cow monitoring system, offering dairy farmers the ability to instantly identify and quickly assist cows experiencing difficult labor. “The new Calving Alert Service will help dairy farmers more accurately detect the onset of calving, and be better prepared for potentially costly events … Read More
NPPC, Farm Bureau Win FOIA Case Against EPA
A federal appeals court overruled a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation against the EPA over its release to environmental groups of personal information on tens of thousands of farmers. In late 2015, a U.S. district court dismissed the NPPC-Farm Bureau suit for lack of … Read More
Dairy Groups Challenge Protectionist Dairy Policy in Canada
Dairy organizations in the United States, Australia, the European Union, Mexico and New Zealand issued a joint letter to their respective trade and agriculture officials, expressing indignation about Canada’s recent actions to deepen its restrictions on dairy trade. The groups said Canada’s policies violate “international trade obligations, hold out the prospect of trade diversion with attendant global price-depressing impacts and … Read More