Agri Beef, a cattle feeding, farming and beef processing company in business since 1968, announced it plans to open a new beef packing facility in Jerome, Idaho.
USDA released Wednesday the long-awaited report on its investigation into cattle market disruptions following last year’s Tyson Foods packing plant fire and this spring’s impact from the coronavirus pandemic.
Meet the Great American Outdoors Act, a funding package passed by Congress three times the amount needed - in the middle of a pandemic with the national debt already past $26 trillion.
This spring’s cattle market disruptions were a disaster for everyone, Mark Dopp, general counsel for the Meat Institute told AgriTalk host Chip Flory. But he believes USDA’s report on markets was accurate.
A petition calling on the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a referendum on the Beef Checkoff was filed with USDA in early July, and USDA has responded along with a guidance document on its website.
An Idaho sheep ranching company announced it will permanently retire grazing on 88,000 acres of public land in the Sawtooth and Salmon-Challis national forests, a decision not universally popular with other ranchers.
One impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the beef industry has been an increase in the number of carcasses grading Prime, but the shuttering of high-end restaurants that sell Prime beef, however, softened demand.
Insects responsible for pollinating human food crops are declining due to modern farming, activists say. Such claims are wrong, says the Genetic Literacy Project, and any insect declines are likely due to urbanization.
Montana Senator John Tester and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley claim American farmers and ranchers face “a grave crisis, and it could hurt every family who buys meat at the grocery store.”
Tyson’s cooperation in the DOJ investigation of price fixing and bid rigging in the broiler industry is part of a request for formal leniency under the agency’s Corporate Leniency Program.
