(Washington, D.C., May 23, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will take several actions to assist farmers in response …
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The South Dakota Stockgrowers are growing increasingly frustrated at the direction the USDA is taking animal traceability. Rapid City, SD (SDSGA)- After James Halverson, Executive Director for The South …
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WASHINGTON (DTN) — There were fewer middle-sized farms in 2017 than five years earlier, and the age of the average farm operator continues to tick upward, according to results of …
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Sen. John Thune (S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, this week wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to encourage him to prioritize several provisions …
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The Wyoming Department of Agriculture (WDA) submitted their state plan to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for delegated authority to regulate the hemp industry in Wyoming on April …
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is updating its scrapie regulations and program standards. These updates include several major changes, which are needed to continue …
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OMAHA (DTN) — Despite some lobbying last month by the crop-insurance industry, the Trump administration’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2020 again calls for reducing crop-insurance premiums, lowering income eligibility …
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday a formal agreement to …
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At the Montana Stockgrowers Convention, there was good news for stockmen who lost cattle due to the past hard winter. If you can document worse losses than normal, the “Livestock …
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (DTN) — In the debate over which agency should take the lead in regulating cell-cultured proteins — or meats — the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday …
