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Preparation of samples for analysis by digital polymerase chain reaction (PCR) equipment at the Grain Research Laboratory.
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Grain sector says government should fund Grain Research Lab

Strong support for work done, calls for more government support

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The Canadian Grain Commission’s (CGC) Grain Research Laboratory (GRL) is a public good and therefore the Canadian government should fund its work, rather the grain sector. That’s a recommendation a number of farm and grain industry groups make in their submissions to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) review of the Canada Grain Act and the
Opinion

Bigger and bigger and …

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Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America’s new gladiators for agricultural justice — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., his antitrust chief Christine Varney, U.S. Department of Agriculture boss Tom Vilsack and hundreds of farmers — gathered for a day-long discussion on “competitive dynamics of the seed industry; trends in
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Restraining Order Sought

The U.S. Agriculture Department is seeking a temporary restraining order that could halt operations at Eastern Livestock Co. LLC of New Albany, Indiana, a business under investigation over allegations that it failed to pay up to $130 million in bills, the USDA said Nov. 12. The investigation by the USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards
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Cattle Company Probed For $94 Million In Unpaid Bills

Eastern Livestock Co. LLC of New Albany, Indiana, is under investigation for $94 million in unpaid bills for livestock. No charges have been filed against Eastern Livestock Co., said Jay Johnson, regional director of the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration in Des Moines, Iowa. “We had investigators there … and you
Livestock, News

Proposed Rules For U.S. Meat Industry

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, which polices the U.S. meat and livestock industry, has proposed new rules designed to help producers compete in the marketplace and to assist the agency in prosecuting violators. Public comment on these rules concludes on Nov. 22. Many of the largest U.S. livestock trade organizations are opposed to
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Friends And Enemies – for Sep. 2, 2010

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Mentioning R-CALF to a Canadian cattle producer has about the same effect as pulling your fingernails across a chalkboard. The Ranchers and Cattlemen Action Legal Fund was formed in 1998 to fight for the livelihoods of small U. S. ranchers. It first set its sights on rising Canadian cattle imports, which it blamed for lower
Beef cattle, News

R-CALF Sets Sights On Packer Consolidation – for Aug. 19, 2010

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Activist ranch lobby group R-CALF USA’s call for tougher enforcement of the 1920s-era Packer and Stockyards Act south of the border came under fire at the recent Canadian Cattlemen’s Association semiannual meeting last week. CCA director of international relations John Masswohl said that even though the discussion around the issue known as GIPSA – the
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

New Game, New Rules

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Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S (Packers and Stockyards) Act” is like watching Wall Street bankers: they find it impossible to pull their hands out of your pockets long enough to pull themselves out of the mess they’ve made. That’s a good explanation
Opinion

GIPSA Watchdog Better Bite

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Who is J. Dudley Butler and why are meat packers and their allies saying nasty things about the courtly, 61-year-old from Yazoo County, Missouri? Butler is the new administrator of the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). That makes him the watchdog over Big Meat and their apologists –

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