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Riparian habitat at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (FWS.gov/refuge/Malheur)
Livestock, Reuters

Protesters occupy Oregon wildlife refuge as rangeland dispute flares

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Princeton, Ore. | Reuters — A group of self-styled militiamen occupied the headquarters of a U.S. wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent jailing of two ranchers, officials said Sunday, in the latest skirmish over federal land management in the U.S. West. The occupation, which began on Saturday, followed a march in Burns, […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. meat cases awash with Christmas hams at bargain

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters –– Shoppers preparing to feast on ham for Christmas can do so without breaking their budget, thanks to record amounts of pork as the industry rebounds from a deadly pig virus, said analysts following the government’s monthly cold storage report on Tuesday. Christmas is the top-ranked holiday for eating ham, followed by […] Read more
USDA deputy secretary Krysta Harden talks to girls in a food and agriculture class at Peekskill Middle School in Peekskill, N.Y. Harden visited the school’s garden where students proudly showed off their crops in the school’s High Tunnel. Peekskill Middle School installed a High Tunnel in the school’s garden thanks to the High Tunnels in Schools Grant. Girls are not only good at food technology, Harden says, they can also have an edge because of their sharp entrepreneurial skills and their drive to make a difference.
Guide Business

A million women farmers

To get big numbers of women farmers, the U.S. looks to small farms

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Reading Time: 6 minutes According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service, the number of female-operated farms in the U.S. more than doubled between 1982 and 2012. On top of that, if you add in the number of women who participate on male-led or jointly led farms as primary and secondary operators, the U.S. now has nearly one million female […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Mexico halts bid for COOL retaliation

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Reading Time: < 1 minute Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico has halted a bid to impose retaliatory trade measures on the U.S. over meat labeling rules after U.S. lawmakers repealed them this week, a Mexican government official said. Mexico had announced earlier this month it would start internal procedures to strip benefits from some U.S. agricultural and industrial imports, […] Read more
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Livestock, Markets

U.S. Congress repeals COOL on beef, pork

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Reading Time: 3 minutes The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have both approved a repeal of the government’s six-year old mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) laws on beef and pork. Tucked into an omnibus appropriations bill put before Congress Friday, the repeal shuts the door on a major irritant in North American trade relations and is expected to curb […] Read more
Kelly Dobson considered an MBA, but signed up for leadership training instead. It’s impacting his farm every day, he says.
Guide Business

Farmers finding a competitive edge with leadership training

Across the country, more farmers are signing up for in-depth leadership training, and they’re using it to transform the way they farm and do business

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Reading Time: 7 minutes There’s a saying that if you aren’t moving forward, then you’re falling behind. Never has this been more true than in agriculture today. But something else is equally true. It’s that more farmers are keeping up with this need for change by dedicating time and effort to cutting-edge studies on leadership. For 46-year-old Kelly Dobson, […] Read more
(Canada Beef Inc. photo)
Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada not yet pulling trade trigger on COOL

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Canada remains “cautiously optimistic” that the U.S. government will repeal its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law before the Canadian and Mexican governments impose retaliatory tariffs. Federal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, speaking Wednesday from Nairobi on a conference call with reporters, said she was “not going to go into hypotheticals” about Canada’s next move if an omnibus […] Read more
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Reuters

U.K. review calls for urgent cuts to antibiotic use in livestock

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Reading Time: 2 minutes London | Reuters –– Massive use of antibiotics in farming poses a critical threat to global public health and should be reduced dramatically to an internationally-agreed target, according to a British government-commissioned review. Agreeing and implementing a global target for agricultural antibiotic use won’t be easy, the review, led by former Goldman Sachs chief economist […] Read more
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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

CME to revamp cattle delivery rules before COOL vote

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — CME Group plans changes to its rules for live cattle futures, requiring that all cattle delivered against the contract must be born and raised solely in the U.S., the exchange said in a statement Friday. The new requirement, effective Dec. 18, covers all currently listed trading months through April 2017. CME […] Read more
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Brazil court probing state-backed loans to JBS

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s federal accounts court, the TCU, said it had identified irregularities on loans to JBS SA, the world’s largest beef producer, and is deepening an investigation into the company’s relationship with state-run lender BNDES. The TCU is probing loans used to purchase U.S.-companies Swift and Co, for about US$225 million […] Read more

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