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N.C. estimates crop, livestock losses from Hurricane Florence
Meating Place (free registration required) | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture, SARL Members and Alumni NewsCrop and livestock losses from Hurricane Florence are expected to exceed $1.1 billion, including $23.1 million in livestock, poultry and aquaculture losses, according to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.The agency noted that the losses were expected to be significant because the storm hit at harvest time and Florence hit the state’s top six agricultural counties especially hard.
Meat industry gets what it wants in new U.S/Mexico/Canada deal: Nothing
Meating Place (free registration required) | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in NewsOne thing the meat industry wanted in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement was: nothing. The industry wanted already trade-friendly terms for U.S. meat exports to remain in place. Last night’s announcement that Canada had agreed to what will now be called the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) did just that for beef and pork producers. “Under NAFTA, U.S.
Activists arrested after entering poultry farm and taking chickens
Meating Place (free registration required) | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture NewsMembers of the organization Direct Action Everywhere, which promotes a vegan lifestyle, were arrested on Saturday after entering a poultry farm near Petaluma, Calif., taking chickens out of their barns and attempting to take them off the farm’s property. The group live-streamed on Facebook what they called a “funeral procession” down a country road to the farm, then took some chickens they said needed medical attention.
Ag Barometer Drops Sharply on Concerns About Weak Farm Income
Purdue | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture NewsThe Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer fell to a reading of 114 in September, fifteen points below its August reading of 129 and its lowest reading since October 2016. September marked the second large decline in the barometer this summer, as it also declined precipitously in July. The barometer, a sentiment index based upon a nationwide monthly survey of 400 U.S. agricultural producers, has been unusually volatile in recent months.
Turns out groundwater is not a point source
Farm Futures | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture NewsIn February 2018, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held the Hawaii County of Maui’s pollutants were traceable to wells which discharge into groundwater and that groundwater was considered a point source under the Clean Water Act. But a new ruling has reversed that call and agriculture will benefit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled on September 24, 2018 that the Clean Water Act (CWA) does not extend liabilitywhen pollution from a point source reaches surface water through groundwater movement.
Canadian Farmers Lose Under Nafta Update That Opens Up Milk Trade
Bloomberg | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture, Federal News“This doesn’t fix the problems of American oversupply,” said Holtmann, a third generation dairy farmer in Rosser, Manitoba, who will spend the winter reviewing the impact of the deal and whether his expansion plans still make sense. “It’s a slap in the face to Canadian producers who work very hard at managing supply.”Canadian dairy farmers say they’re on the losing end of the new deal, which will give the U.S. greater access to Canada’s protected dairy market and eliminate its new milk pricing system, one that’s been repeatedly attacked by President Donald Trump.
Uninhabitable ‘critical habitat’ debated before Supreme Court
Capital Press | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Federal, Rural NewsAn endangered frog has raised the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court of whether an area that is uninhabitable for a species can nonetheless be considered its “critical habitat.”Justices from the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to have differing opinions on whether “critical habitat” for an endangered species can be designated in an area it can’t inhabit without significant changes.The oral arguments held on Oct.
Three ways to elevate the economic portrait of rural California
California Forward | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Rural NewsWhen California became the fifth largest economy in the world earlier this year, experts attributed the state’s economic success to the financial services, real estate and technology industries based largely in urban and coastal regions. Left out of the economic success story were many of the state’s vast rural regions. California’s rural areas are some of the most beautiful and bountiful in the world. The economies there are heavily based on natural resources and “working landscapes” that benefit the entire state.
U.S. agriculture applauds NAFTA replacement
Capital Press | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture, Federal NewsSome U.S. commodities will gain additional access to Canadian markets, and others will retain existing zero-tariff access to Canada and Mexico. The trilateral agreement barely came in under a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., at which point the U.S. would have moved forward with the trade deal reached with Mexico a month earlier.The renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement will move ahead as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.A major sticking point with Canada was granting more access to U.S.
This Gene-Edited Calf Could Transform Brazil's Beef Industry
Wall Street Journal | Posted onOctober 4, 2018 in Agriculture NewsWorld's first angus calf engineered to be heat tolerant could beef up meat production in warmer climates.