Foreign Agriculture Service Working to Break Down Trade Barriers

Dan Beef, Cattle, Dairy, Exports/Imports, Field Crops, Fruits, Livestock, Marketing, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry, Specialty Crops, Trade, Vegetables

Foreign Agriculture Service has led USDA’s day-to-day efforts to break down trade barriers and generate export opportunities for U.S. agriculture for 2021. They have tried to get peanuts accepted back into the European Union. These efforts also resulted in market access for U.S. pork to India, poultry to Venezuela, and apples and pears going into Argentina, among others. Tyron Spearman …

Global Efforts Underway to Combat Hunger and Poverty

Dan Beef, Cattle, Dairy, Field Crops, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry

U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service team together to lead global efforts to combat hunger and poverty and build more sustainable equitable, and resilient, food systems through the United Nations and others. According to the USDA they have invested $248 Million dollars in new school feeding projects through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition …

U.S. Customs Seizes Prohibited Meat at the Mexican Border

Dan Exports/Imports, Pork

Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that their agriculture specialists seized prohibited meat products at the U.S.-Mexico border. Customs agents seized 243 pounds of prohibited pork bologna in two separate and unrelated incidents. Officials seized 55 pounds of pork products on January 13 and another 188 pounds of bologna on January 21. “Pork products have the potential to …

Poultry Industry on High Alert for Avian Influenza

Dan Poultry, USDA-APHIS

In the wake of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) being found in wild birds in the U.S., poultry producers here in the Southeast and across the country are asked to be on high alert. Gary Crawford has more details. HPAI is a serious disease and requires rapid response because it is highly contagious and often fatal to chickens. APHIS works with its federal, state, …

Create a Chicken Garden to Keep Your Feathered Friends Healthy

Dan Field Crops, Fruits, Herbs, Nursery Crops, Poultry, Specialty Crops, This Land of Ours, Vegetables

How to create a chicken garden to keep your feathered friends healthy, and also away from your harvest.  That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. A chicken garden is a great way to supplement your chickens’ diets while keeping them busy and away from your garden. Place your chicken garden in an area where they have easy access to, …

Feral Swine Control Program Progressing Well in Alabama

Dan Alabama, Pork, USDA-NRCS

We told you last April that funding through the 2018 Farm Bill allowed the Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Committee (ASWCC) to launch a program to help property owners in certain areas of Alabama control feral swine. The Alabama Feral Swine Control Program, funded by a grant through USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), allowed the ASWCC to launch a three-year program to help farmers …

Growers Discuss Priorities for 2023 Farm Bill

Dan Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Equine, Farm Bill, Field Crops, Fruits, Hemp, Herbs, Legislative, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Pasture, Peanuts, Pecans, Pollinators, Pork, Poultry, Sheep-Goats, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables, Wheat

The 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire in 2023, so preparations are underway to craft the behemoth legislation into law sometime next year. However, it is common for negotiations to extend into the following year. Whether the new farm bill is passed in 2023 or 2024, there’s a lot of work ahead. The farm bill was the focus of …