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U. S. Feedlot Cattle Data Confirms Smaller Supply

By Bob Burgdorfer March 26, 2009

The number of U. S. cattle being fattened in feedlots is the smallest in four years as losses on cattle sales have prompted producers to reduce supplies, analysts said March 19. The U. S. Agriculture Department reported there were 11.228 million cattle in U. S. feedlots as of March 1, which was 95 per cent

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

U. S. Dairy Farmers Want Subsidies

March 26, 2009

Adairy group on March 18 asked the Obama administration to respond to a plunge in milk prices by subsidizing U. S. dairy exports and buying dairy products for donation to poor Americans. The National Milk Producers Federation says the average cost to produce milk in January exceeded the price of milk by 25 per cent.

News, Poultry

U. S. Lawmaker Blasts China Food Safety

March 26, 2009

The United States has “serious issues” with food imports from China and needs to do more to prevent contaminated products from entering the U. S. food supply, an influential House lawmaker said March 18. At the same time, Washington needs to toughen up its own outdated food safety laws after a series of food recalls

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

The Battle For Acres In The U. S.

By Frayne Olson March 19, 2009

“If there is a strong price rally this spring, it probably will come from a concern about production rather than an attempt to meet an expanding demand base. The 2009 “battle for acres” may become more of a balancing act than a battle. On March 31, the USDA will release the first survey-based estimate of

Livestock

U. S. Finalizes Ban On Cattle Too Sick To Walk

By Christopher Doering March 19, 2009

Cattle too sick or injured to walk will no longer be allowed to enter U. S. slaughterhouses, the Agriculture Department said in a rule finalized March 14, nearly a year after the largest meat recall in American history spurred the change. The USDA proposed a total ban on all “downer” cattle from being slaughtered in

Dairy cattle, Livestock, Poultry

China Warns Of WTO Challenge On Poultry

By Jason Subler March 19, 2009

“Frankly, we’re not opposed to China seeking relief from the WTO, and we wish them success” – JIM SUMNER, USA POULTRY AND EGG EXPORT COUNCIL China said March 11 that it plans to file a complaint at the World Trade Organization about a U. S. law, renewed this month, that blocks imports of Chinese poultry

News

Obama Names Miller, Tonsager To Top USDA Posts

March 19, 2009

President Barack Obama chose Jim Miller to run the U. S. farm subsidy program and Dallas Tonsager as the top rural development official at the Agriculture Department, the White House said March 13. Both appointments, as USDA undersecretary, require Senate confirmation. In late February, Obama selected Kathleen Merrigan for deputy secretary, the No. 2 job

Beef cattle, Livestock, Oilseeds, Opinion

U. S. Checkoff Shenanigans, Again

By Alan Guebert March 12, 2009

When Benjamin Franklin noted in a 1789 letter to a friend that “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,” Franklin did not foresee the incestuous, billion-dollar-per-year commodity checkoff industry. If you farm or ranch in America, not even taxes are more certain than the beef checkoff, the pork

News

Food Price Spike Tests Trade Faith

By Roberta Rampton March 5, 2009

The recent shift toward rising food prices has shaken the confidence of developing countries in counting on trade to feed their hungry, and sparked a move toward protectionism, an OECD official said on Feb. 26. “The last 20 years, the movement was toward opening markets, and trade liberalization, and less government intervention in agricultural markets.

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Mar. 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Streamlining farm subsidies: European Union ministers are considering changing the way farmers receive subsidies. The Czechs plan to launch a debate on how the EU’s complex farm payment system might be altered for the next seven-year budget period, which starts in 2013, Czech Agriculture Minister Petr Gandalovic said. Average levels of direct farm payments vary

Daily Network News

Conservative MP introduces bill to speed approvals of seeds, fertilizers

ICE Weekly: More to canola price gains than Middle East war

CBOT Weekly: U.S. trade monitoring crops, weather

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