Fri, 05/04/2007 - 10:51 admin Currently No Way to Trace Poultry Contaminated by Feed -- Without Tracking, No Way of Knowing if Contaminated Chickens Were Sold to Consumers in Recent Months; Schumer to Reintroduce Bill that Creates Tracking System to Trace Meat and Poultry to Source in Case of Contamination or Outbreak of Disease. Fri, 05/04/2007 - 10:51 admin Currently No Way to Trace Poultry Contaminated by Feed -- Without Tracking, No Way of Knowing if Contaminated Chickens Were Sold to...

Senate last week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops. Department of Agriculture would determine the likelihood of construction of a future biorefinery, the local potential for feedstock production, the number of interested farmers and a biorefinery's economic impact. But the technological hurdles and costs have been so daunting that most ethanol producers instead relied on heavy government subsidies to squeeze fuel from corn. Department of...

As consumers of agricultural products and as taxpayers who fund programs that help farmers produce the highest quality crops and livestock while safeguarding the environment, we all have a stake in the next farm bill. More than 2 million farms, most of them family operations, contribute to the business of agriculture, projected to be a $300 billion industry in 2007. In response to the changing face of agriculture, USDA has developed a farm bill proposal that offers a far-reaching,...

Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how prices wilted after a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs. Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how prices wilted after a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the...

agencies found that even under the most extreme scenarios, the potential exposure from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed containing melamine "was about 2,500 times lower than the dose considered safe," said Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Office of Field Operation in USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service, who also testified. There is no evidence linking human illness to certain Chinese food imports tainted with melamine or...

One, the current downside price risk is $3 with these ending stocks and two, if growing conditions this summer threatens yield potential to below 150 bushels per acre, prices will need to rally sharply to ration the ending stocks and make sure the United States doesn't run out of corn supplies. While they left planted acres unchanged, the USDA lowered their production forecast to 12. One, the current downside price risk is $3 with these ending stocks and two, if growing conditions this...