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International Poultry Council Commits to Coordinated Effort to Address Antibiotic Resistance in Animal Agriculture
National Chicken Council | Posted onOctober 24, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe International Poultry Council (IPC) said the global poultry industry will work on a coordinated effort to address antibiotic resistance in animal agriculture and will work to release a comprehensive report in the next several months in the next several months. This issue was part of the discussions among delegates from 20 countries at the IPC’s recent conference in Estoril, Portugal. “The International Poultry Council shares the public’s concern about antibiotic resistance, which is an issue of global significance,” IPC President Jim Sumner, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Expo
United Nations Adopts New Policy Recommendations for Animal Welfare
National Chicken Council | Posted onOctober 24, 2016 in Federal NewsThe United Nations has adopted new policy recommendations for animal welfare in global farming. The measures were adopted this week at a meeting of the United Nations Committee on World Farming Security in Rome, Italy. The recommendations included improving animal welfare, preventing the unnecessary use of antibiotics and improving biosecurity to prevent animal disease. The United Nation’s recommendation include: Enable access to veterinary services, vaccinations, and medication, including antimicrobials; Improve animal health management through biosafety and biosecurity by following OI
Carbon farming: What is it, and how can it help the climate?
Yale | Posted onOctober 21, 2016 in Agriculture NewsFor produce farms, carbon farming generally means growing fruits, vegetables, and legumes with minimal disturbance to the soil. One important approach is no-till farming, which implicitly means less disturbance. As much as five times more carbon can stick around in the soil under no-till than with conventional tillage, according to Bernacchi’s study of corn and soybean fields in Illinois. His calculations suggest that if all farms in the U.S.
DOJ queries farmers on Deere-Precision Planting deal
DTN | Posted onOctober 21, 2016 in Agriculture NewsIt's not every day that the government comes a-callin', so when the Washington, D.C., phone number popped up on his cellphone on September 28, Illinois farmer Matt Foes couldn't resist answering. He's glad he did -- the phone call was from the Department of Justice, and they wanted to know how John Deere's plans to purchase Monsanto's Precision Planting would affect Foes, who farms in Bureau County, Illinois. The proposed acquisition has come under fire recently from the Department of Justice (DOJ), which filed a lawsuit in August to block it.
How will the Monsanto-Bayer merger affect everyday farmers?
Modern Farmer | Posted onOctober 21, 2016 in Agriculture NewsEPA has sent the final rule for the 2017 Renewable Fuel Standard blend levels to White House for its approval. The White House Office of Management and Budget is expected to complete its review of the final rule within the next 90 days to set renewable volume obligations in the RFS. The OMB received the final rule from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday. The notice indicates EPA is on track to finalize volumes by its statutory Nov. 30 deadline. For years the agency has struggled to meet RFS deadlines.
Advertisement against Massachusetts Ballot Initiative
you Tube | Posted onOctober 20, 2016 in SARL Members and Alumni NewsSee Diane Sullivan speaking against the Massacusetts Ballot Initiative that will make it illegla to sell eggs and meat products from confined animals.
AEM Seeks Answers to Rural Infrastructure Challenges
Asociation of Equipment Manufacturers | Posted onOctober 20, 2016 in Rural NewsAEM hopes to help find answers to the infrastructure challenges facing the U.S. agriculture sector. Under its Infrastructure Vision 2050 thought-leadership initiative, AEM will seek innovative ideas and best practices to address those challenges in the context of current and future U.S. infrastructure trends.
USDA Publishes Final Rule for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program
USDA | Posted onOctober 20, 2016 in Federal NewsThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) yesterday published a final rule on the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), the nation’s premier conservation easement program that helps landowners protect working agricultural lands and wetlands. These rule changes will make the program more flexible and responsive to the unique needs of farmers and ranchers in each region of the U.S. The 2014 Farm Bill consolidated three previous conservation easement programs into ACEP to make it easier for diverse agricultural landowners to fully benefit from conservation initiatives.
Warning for US egg producers: Beware of free-range hens
Watt Ag Net | Posted onOctober 20, 2016 in Food NewsGlenrath Farms has a profitable egg business, one of the U.K.’s largest, whose hens lay around 1.5 million eggs per day. John Campbell, the company's chairman, told the audience at the United Egg Producers’ Annual Board Meeting & Executive Conference in Miami Beach, Florida, on October 18, “I strongly advise any egg producer to avoid free range. It (free-range rearing for hens) is a disaster waiting to happen.” What makes these statements remarkable is the fact that Glenrath Farms has made a lot of money supplying free-range eggs to U.K. consumers.
Congress mulls project to flood Washington farmland
Capital Press | Posted onOctober 20, 2016 in Federal NewsFederal lawmakers may authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to pursue a $451.6 million project to convert hundreds of acres of privately owned farmland into Puget Sound fish habitat, unsettling to a farmer who owns property vital to the government’s designs. “It’s definitely, definitely in the back of my mind, all the time,” said Scott Bedlington, third-generation Whatcom County farmer. “I have to farm.