Bay Area ranchers open their own mobile meat processing plant, filling key gap for local industry
Bay Area livestock ranchers, including 24 in Sonoma County, are welcoming this week’s opening of their own slaughterhouse that fills a critical gap created more than two years ago. The…
Read More...The House Agriculture Committee Reacts to New York Times Opinion Piece Attacking Agriculture Industry
The mood during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on livestock sustainability included frustration from lawmakers and witnesses alike, including South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson. “There are threats because there are less knowledgeable and…
Read More...JBS settles for $52.5M in beef price fixing case
JBS has agreed to settle to the tune of $52.5 million in a retailer’s case accusing meat packers of conspiring to fix beef prices. The settlement is the first in…
Read More...Producer Partnership provides meat for needy people
Depending on cattle prices, producers have only a few choices when culling an animal: sell it–in most cases for a low price—or butcher or bury it. Producers in Montana now…
Read More...The 1000 Farms Initiative Investigates Regenerative Agriculture Across the U.S.
The Ecdysis Foundation is launching a study that aims to investigate regenerative agriculture across the United States. The 1000 Farms Initiative is one of the largest projects to date that…
Read More...Listen: ‘Who do you want controlling your food?’
During the pandemic, wholesale beef prices increased more than 40 percent. The conventional wisdom was that price increases simply reflected the chaos that the coronavirus had caused in the supply…
Read More...It’s becoming a bidding war for U.S. beef
With 2022 set to be the third consecutive year of declining beef cow inventories, and the fourth year with a smaller calf crop, beef production is expected to retreat by…
Read More...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…
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