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DAN CHARLES
Dairy farms that capture methane from their cows' manure can earn valuable pollution-cutting credits through California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
Rich Pedroncelli/AP
California is trying to cut greenhouse emissions from the state's cars and trucks, and in a...
Source: Nat'l Mastitis Council news release
National Mastitis Council (NMC) members from 31 U.S. states, five Canadian provinces and 26 countries gathered Feb. 1-3, for the group's 2022 annual meeting - in person and via the world wide web. More...
Source: National Milk Producers Federation
NMPF Board of Directors member and California dairy producer Melvin Medeiros told a House Agriculture subcommittee today that dairy farmers have made significant sustainability gains and stand ready to serve environmental solutions to make even further progress.
“U.S....
Source: USDA, Dept of Justice joint news release
Farmers and ranchers now can anonymously report potentially unfair and anticompetitive practices in the livestock and poultry sectors using an online tool the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Justice (DOJ) launched...
Source: USDA news release
U.S. per capita consumption of fluid cow's milk has been trending downward since about the mid-1940s, and it fell at a faster rate during the 2010s than in each of the previous six decades. Using dietary...
Source: Ontario Genomics
Ontario Genomics, the Agricultural Adaptation Council and Genome Canada have partnered with Farm and Food Care Ontario to produce five educational videos highlighting cutting-edge technology and research across Ontario’s agriculture and agri-food sectors. This series features a 360-degree, virtual...
Source: USDA
by Russell Knight, Christopher G. Davis, William Hahn, Jerry Cessna, Angel Teran, Mildred Haley, Adriana Valcu-Lisman, Hannah Taylor, and Margaret Cornelius
The Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for January 2022 analyzes economic impacts of month-to-month changes in USDA’s World Agricultural Supply and Use Estimates Report on domestic and...
American Farm Bureau Federation reports:
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented on today's announcement by the Department of Homeland Security that it would begin enforcing vaccine requirements for non-U.S. citizens traveling to the United States through land ports of...
Source: USDA
by Michael McConnell, Olga Liefert, Angelica Williams, and Amy Boline
The January 2022 Feed Outlook report contains estimates for 2020/21, and projections for the 2021/22 U.S. and global feed markets, based on the most current World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.
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Source: NASDA news release
NASDA members, the state commissioners, secretaries and directors of agriculture, hand-selected nine issues to serve as the organization's primary policy focus for 2022. They include the 2023 Farm Bill, animal health, climate resiliency, food safety, the...
