With the grilling season now officially upon us we have a series of reports to ensure the food on your grill is not only good, but good for you.
FL Commissioner’s Spotlight on Horse Vaccinations
This week’s Commissioner’s Spotlight from Florida Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson is urging horse owners to have their horse’s vaccinated against the mosquito-borne Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile viruses. More information is available on the FDACS Division of Animal Industry web site by clicking on EEE and West Nile Virus.
Weekly Livestock Market Reports
Here are the cattle market numbers for the week ending May 22nd put together by the livestock market news service for the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia. AL: FL: GA:
Many Concerns with NAIS
Producers and other interested parties from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee were on hand to make comments Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama concerning the National Animal Identification System. For those not able to attend the listening session, comments can be made on line by clicking Here
Animal ID a Contentious Issue
Listening sessions have been taking place at various points across the country on the National Animal Identification System, as one of those sessions took place yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama. In a phone interview, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told Southeast AgNet that this is an extremely important effort that USDA has undertaken. For those not able to attend the listening session, …
Balancing the Economics of Animal ID
When it comes to animal identification there is a lot of worries about the confidentiality and costs issues surrounding it. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said livestock producers are going to have to weigh the costs of having a national animal ID system verses not having one. And a reminder a NAIS listening session will take place this Thursday, May …
Southeast Beef Bytes1
Over the next 8 weeks in a series funded by the National Beef Checkoff, we will be talking with producers from around the Southeast about the checkoff and what it has done for not only the industry but for their operations. Our series is called “Southeast Beef Bytes” and in our first installment we have Mike Dee, a cattle producer …
Time for Animal Agriculture to Speak Up
Phillip Lobo, Communications Director for the Animal Ag Alliance, says it’s time for those involved in animal agriculture to start speaking up about their industry.
US Signs Beef Deal with EU
The United States and European Union have come to an agreement concerning the EU’s ban on beef fed with hormones.
WASDE Forecast Higher Beef and Pork Exports
According to USDA’s latest World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, economists are forecasting total U.S. meat production for 2010 to be fractionally above 2009.