Biden’s Action Plan Draws Mixed Reviews From Cattlemen
The Biden Administration’s Action Plan to invest $1 Billion to expand competition in the U.S. meat packing industry and strengthen enforcement of antitrust regulations drew mixed reactions from cattlemen. Biden…
Read More...Record Beef Prices, but Ranchers Aren’t Cashing In
“You’re feeding America and going broke doing it”: After years of consolidation, four companies dominate the meatpacking industry, while many ranchers are barely hanging on.
Read More...Should cultured meat be labeled identically to traditional meat?
USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service is asking consumers for their thoughts. Consumers, traditional meat producers and emerging meat producers continue to spar over what to call this new technology meat. The…
Read More...Back to the early 1980s: Inflation rate hits 39-year high
The 6.8% inflation rate is the worst since June 1982. Other large contributors to inflation included housing, clothes, household furnishings, and new and used vehicles.
Read More...USDA promised to invest in regional markets. Now, it’s happening
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has said many times since taking office that the agency would invest in local and regional markets in an effort to make the food system more…
Read More...Idaho Wool Growers Association leader optimistic about new year
Liz Wilder sees improving conditions and solid long-term opportunity in a sheep industry that continues to diversify as it recovers from COVID-19 challenges. “There is a lot of optimism in…
Read More...Nearly half of US states lost population in rural areas
During the decade from 2010-2020, 24 states lost population in nonmetropolitan or rural areas, according to the 2020 U.S. census. Sixteen of those states lost population overall or showed slow…
Read More...Agri-Pulse poll: Climate change concerns many farmers, but carbon payments far too low
A majority of U.S. farmers are at least somewhat concerned about climate change, and nearly half are using or considering practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new Agri-Pulse survey…
Read More...Idaho officials reject grazing-fee increase, costing schools
Idaho officials have rejected a plan to raise grazing fees on state-managed land, costing K-12 public schools more than $530,000 annually. The Idaho Land Board voted 2-2 to defeat the proposal,…
Read More...Drought taking a lasting toll on ranchers and western dairies
The drought stretching through much of the Great Plains is pushing cattle ranchers and dairy farmers to the breaking point – and sometimes past it – as producers scramble to…
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