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.
Disappointed with US-EU Beef Agreement
American Farm Bureau Federation is disappointed that the provisional agreement announced this past week between the U.S. and European Union in the beef hormone dispute did not fully open the EU market to U.S. beef.
Long Range
Ten year food price inflation. Everett Griner tells us just what this says.
FL Beef Checkoff Research Adding Value
Beef checkoff dollars have been instrumental in research efforts to finding new cuts which are adding value to the chuck and round, and Dr. Dwain Johnson with the University of Florida said those efforts continue.
GA Beef Summer Research Project
Thanks to beef checkoff dollars, University of Georgia’s Dr. Dean Pringle says a research project will take place this summer in Georgia with dairy cows.
AL Livestock Groups Working Together
In Montgomery, Alabama there have been efforts by animal rights groups to make their presence known through legislative efforts, and that’s why Dr. Billy Powell with the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association said a variety of ag groups came together.
US-EU Beef Dispute Agreement
An agreement was announced this week in the long-running dispute over hormone-treated beef.
GA Holding Beef Cattle Workshops
The University of Georgia wants to remind cattle producers that 3 Southeast Beef Cattle Management and Marketing Schools will be held next week.
NCBA Continues to Fight Death Tax
Colin Woodall, Executive Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, wants producers to know they continue fighting to eliminate the death tax as they get stories everyday from operations who have had to sell off assets just to pay their taxes.