Washington DC - February 16 - The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) is petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider its finding that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are an endangerment to public health and welfare (“endangerment finding”).

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Washington DC - February 16 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced details of the final regulation regarding access to pasture for organic livestock operations to clarify the use of pasture in raising organic ruminants.

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Washington DC - February 8 - U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 10.1 million acres of cotton this spring, up more than 10 percent from 2009, according to the National Cotton Council’s 27th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey.

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Washington DC - November 16 - First-time home buyers reached the highest market share on record during the past year, according to the latest consumer survey of home buyers and sellers.

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Washington DC - October 13 - Congressmen in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Helping Invigorate and Revive our Economy Act of 2009 to help create jobs by expanding the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) to encourage employers to hire additional employees.

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Washington DC - July 13 - An appropriations bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives stripped $36 million sought by the Department of Homeland Security for the first phase of construction of a National Bio and Agro Defense Facility on the mainland.

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Washington DC - July 10 - The National Family Farm Coalition expressed opposition to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s inclusion of $14 million in funding for USDA’s National Animal Identification System in the Senate Agriculture Appropriations bill.

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Washington DC - July 1 - It may not always pay for ranchers to use herbicides to kill exotic invasive weeds such as leafy spurge, according to a 16-year study by the Agricultural Research Service and colleagues.

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Washington DC - June 30 - New research from Agricultural Research Service scientists is shedding light on the relationship between chemical compounds and fescue toxicosis—a disease that affects grazing animals and costs the U.S. cattle industry an estimated $600 million annually.

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Washington DC - June 5 - The EPA’s proposal would define greenhouse gas as an endangerment to public health and use the Clean Air Act to impose stringent regulations on small businesses, warns the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association.

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Washington DC - June 1 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that Nicaragua will allow live U.S. cattle, as well as beef and beef products from cattle of all ages to be exported to that Central American country.

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Washington DC - May 27 - USDA has expanded the Livestock Gross Margin insurance program for dairy cattle to producers in Kentucky, New Mexico, Tennessee and Washington, bringing the total number of states where this program is available to 33.

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 Washington DC -May 22- USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced allocations under USDA’s Dairy Export Incentive Program for the July 2008 through June 30, 2009 period, as allowed under the rules of the World Trade Organization. The program helps U.S. dairy exporters meet prevailing world prices and encourages the development of international export markets in areas where U.S. dairy products are not competitive due to subsidized dairy products from other countries.

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Washington DC - May 21 - The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) sent a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging lawmakers to co-sponsor and expeditiously enact the newly introduced Judgment Evading Foreign State Accountability ACT (JEFSA).

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Washington DC - May 12 - The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) corrected an error in the amendatory language in a rule that added the port of San Luis, Ariz., as a port through which cattle that have been infested with fever ticks may be imported into the United States.

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