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 -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 8- U.S. cattle producers are backing legislation introduced by Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, to strengthen the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) enforcement over agricultural markets, as well as enhance open and fair competition in livestock markets. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -May 8- Congressman Leonard Boswell, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry, held a hearing to discuss the welfare of animals in agriculture. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -May 8- In a letter of support to the House Agricultural Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Chairman Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, National Farmers Union President Tom Buis commended the recently introduced 2007 Competitive and Fair Agricultural Markets Act. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -May 1- The House has passed a bill to prohibit the shipping, possessing, purchasing, selling or donation of horses and other equines to be slaughtered for human consumption and for other purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -April 19- AMI President J. Patrick Boyle told the House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry that the U.S. meat packing industry is dynamic and competitive and that the industry will oppose legislative and regulatory efforts to restrict livestock marketing and packing procurement opportunities that have helped grow the industry and provided consumers the most affordable meat supply in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -April 5- Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -April 3- Retail food prices at the supermarket increased slightly in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -April 2- USDA’s annual spring-planting report indicates that America’s farmers will plant 12.1 million (15 percent) more acres of corn than last year, a total of 90.5 million acres, according to analysis conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF). Read the rest of this entry »

Washington DC -March 26- “The size of a farm and its business configuration is not necessarily related to the quality of animal care,” said well-known animal welfare expert, Janice Swanson, PhD, at the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s sixth industry-wide Stakeholders Summit held March 19-21 in Arlington, Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »