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A White House listening session with vice president Kamala Harris focused on broadband connectivity. Missouri farmer Meagan Kaiser was one of six participants and spoke to the struggle for farmers and rural businesses.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced a new tool in the war against feral hogs with the release of a new hog contraceptive bait entering the market this week.
JBS USA said Wednesday the “vast majority” of its processing plants were operational after a Memorial Day weekend cyberattack on its operations in North America and Australia.
The United Nations issued a warning this week as world food prices are rising at their fastest pace in a decade. Global food prices have risen for 12 consecutive months and now sit at their highest level since 2011.
The White House says President Joe Biden will address cyber attacks with Russia at a meeting later this month and won’t take any options off the table when responding to the recent cyberattack on meat producer JBS.
The head of Tyson Foods, Dean Banks, is stepping down after less than a year on the job. The company announced Donnie King is the new CEO, which makes him the fifth CEO of Tyson in the last five years.
The cattle industry’s unprecedented meeting was centered around meat packing margins and claims of market monopoly. The meeting among the six groups is now drawing a response from the meat packing industry.
An unprecedented meeting held in May among major cattle industry representatives, typically at odds, has produced plans for change and calls for answers from U.S. lawmakers. Keep up with the latest on this page.
A federal district court ruling, if left unchallenged, will result in a 2.5% loss in pork packing plant capacity nationwide and over $80 million in reduced income for small U.S. hog farmers, says economist Dermot Hayes.
Calls for change came to a head this month, as cattle groups held an industry-wide meeting made history. And the groups say the first meeting is just the start.
The disparity in cattle markets was a lead topic of discussion during Senate Agriculture Committee’s nomination hearing for USDA’s general counsel, with Senators promising to soon hold a hearing on livestock markets.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract a trio of threats: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks and animal suffering.
Need a little inspiration? From facing an F-5 tornado to battling cancer and beyond, these producers share stories of how they’ve overcome big challenges with grit and grace.
American Farm Bureau Federation sent a letter to the Biden administration saying the increase in undocumented immigration is severely impacting farm and ranch families, putting property and personal safety at risk.
The world’s largest meat producer was the latest victim of a cyberattack. And as the food chain relies more on automation and less on manual labor, cyberattacks may be a rising risk for the food chain.
One week after a cyberattack shut down meat packing plants in three countries, U.S. officials seized the cryptocurrency payment that was made during the Colonial Pipeline hack less than a month earlier.
Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, can produce toxins that are harmful to livestock, wildlife and people. The growth of this bacteria is aided by high temperatures.
JBS USA announced it has suffered an organized cyberattack that has affected servers supporting its IT systems in North America and Australia.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing to list the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The chicken’s habitat spans parts of five states, including Colorado, Kansas and Texas.
Australian and North American units of the world’s largest meat works were hit over the weekend by an organized cyber attack on its information systems, Brazil’s JBS SA said in a statement.
The dire drought situation is one USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey thinks could last through at least the remainder of 2021. Forecasts also point to a drier weather pattern returning for Texas and the Plains.
Demand for pork and grains is helping propel prices in 2021, and USDA is forecasting it to be a record year.
After JBS confirmed a cyberattack shuttered some of its processing plants, USDA’s daily cattle slaughter estimates revealed 94,000 head of cattle were processed on Tuesday, a drop of 27,000 head compared to last week.
JBS USA says it has invested $130 million to increase production capacities at two of its major beef processing facilities in Grand Island and Omaha, Neb., and announced annualized wage increases over the past year.
Farm Journal has announced that a #FarmONTM Benefit Concert will be presented in partnership with the National FFA Foundation on Thursday, August 26, at Frahm Farmland in Colby, KS.
JBS USA said it paid an $11 million ransom to cyber attackers that shut down operations in the U.S. and Australia last week. All plants were fully operational by June 3.
The EPA and Department of the Army announced a plan on Wednesday to initiate a new rulemaking process to restore the protections that were in place prior to the 2015 WOTUS implementation.
USDA will begin work on three proposed rules to support enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act, a 100-year-old law designed to protect producers from unfair, and anti-competitive practices in meat markets.
As drought conditions in the West are continuing to expand, hotter temperatures aren’t helping things. Heat that started building over the weekend is not good news for areas already dealing with that drought.
Less than two weeks after JBS was hit with a cyberattack impacting operations in Australia and North America, Congress is now calling on JBS to provide documents and communications related to the May 30 attack.