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Archive for the 'BSE (Mad Cow)' Category
Washington DC -July 14- Recent passage of the 2008 Farm Bill included funding for conservation and environmental programs. Robert Bonnie with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) talks about efforts to improve wildlife habitat, including the rare Ocelot in South Texas, and EDF’s concern with taking land setaside for conservation and allowing its return to agricultural uses, such as haying, grazing, and crop production. Join Mr. Bonnie and host Mike Duncan for this weeks edition of the WashingtonView Radio program.
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Washington DC -May 1- The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) is pleased to learn that the United States and South Korea have reached a formal agreement on the resumption of U.S. beef exports to South Korea.
Washington DC -April 25- President Bush today signed a one-week Farm Bill extension which was passed by the Congress on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 21- Getting a Farm Bill passed yet this year is a top priority for the National Farmers Union (NFU). Tom Buis, President of NFU, told WashingtonView Radio today that the House and Senate need to come to an agreement soon.
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Washington DC -March 5- At the request of senior House and Senate agriculture committee staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided a detailed document developed from Administration analysis of impacts to current USDA programs - in the absence of enactment of a new farm bill or an extension of the 2002 farm bill past March 15, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -September 18- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on September 14 that it intends to expand the list of allowable imports into the U.S. from countries recognized as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) minimal risk countries. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -May 8- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that a mature dairy cow is Canada’s 11th confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -April 16- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed that a birth-herd cohort of the BSE-positive Canadian bull identified on Feb. 7, 2007, was indeed exported to the United States in 2002. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 30- R-CALF USA was pleased to learn that a federal district court has ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) action of prohibiting Creekstone Farms Premium Beef (Creekstone) from voluntarily testing cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is unlawful. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 21- Following is a statement from the Federal Open Market COmmittee (FOMC) regarding the federal funds rate: Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 14- More than 100 agricultural organizations and livestock auction yards from around the country sent a letter this week to U.S. Senate leaders to seek help to prevent the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from implementing its proposed rule to allow Canadian cattle over 30 months (OTM) of age into the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Washington DC -March 8- The Canadian government has confirmed that its latest case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was in an Alberta bull born in 2000 – well beyond the 1997 implementation of Canada’s feed ban – and well beyond March 1, 1999, the date after which the Canadian feed ban was previously hoped to have become effective, according to R-CALF USA. Read the rest of this entry »