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 -April 13- Consumers and producers continue to search for the best quality food to bring to the dinner table, and the growing niche market for those products is the topic of this week’s WashingtonView Radio Program.

Our guest is Mary Ellen Taylor of Endless Summer Harvest (www.esharvest.com), a hydroponic lettuce and herb producer in northern Virginia which provides consumers and upscale restaurants in Washington DC, high-quality produce grown year-round.

Listen to the program now at WashingtonView Radio

Washington DC -March 25- The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association commended U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-MT), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) today for their recent letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) expressing opposition to the USDA’s proposed rule to increase meat imports from Argentina. Read the rest of this entry »

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 -March 5- The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) applauded eight U.S. Senators for sending a letter this week to USDA Secretary Ed Schafer opposing regionalized beef trade with Argentina. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -July 17- USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced the selection of Kansas State University to lead a multi-institutional benefit-cost analysis of the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -May 10- The House Committee on Agriculture investigated the government’s response to melamine-tainted products imported from China that were used in pet food and animal feed products. 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 -April 3- Eighty-two percent of consumers support mandatory country
of origin labeling of food, according to a poll released today by Food & Water Watch. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -March 14- Public funding for research initiatives has fallen in real dollars over the past two decades, and that trend needs to stop, according to American Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman. 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 »