pork producers will aggressively work for congressional passage of the U. pork and pork products, is pending a vote by the U. In addition to ambitious market-access gains, the Republic of Korea has agreed to accept all pork and pork products from USDA-approved packing facilities. pork producers will receive an additional $10 per pig once the U. South Korea where pork constitutes 44 percent of daily meat protein consumption already is the fourth largest market for U. Under terms of the...

After new tests confirmed that swine that ate feed containing melamine and related compounds is safe for human consumption, USDA says up to 56,000 swine that have been quarantined are OK for processing. An updated FDA and USDA risk assessment found that a healthy adult weighing 132 pounds would have to eat over 800 pounds of melamine-contaminated food in one day in order to reach an unhealthy level of melamine. commercial fish farms are confirmed to have received the feed, FDA says, and...

pork industry, and it will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new export sales," says NPPC President Jill Appell. The deal would eliminate tariffs on all frozen and processed pork by 2014, and fresh chilled pork would be duty free 10 years after implementation. pork as the amount Japan currently imports. The White House has made details of the U. NPPC says that once the FTA is fully implemented, U. The agreement, formally completed April 1, is pending approval by Congress and...

Those lawmakers and the Iowa-based company that makes Blue Bunny ice cream are at the center of a dispute over whether corporate dairy processors should be allowed to buy milk under contracts that would pay farmers less than the minimum prices set by the federal milk marketing system. Those lawmakers and the Iowa-based company that makes Blue Bunny ice cream are at the center of a dispute over whether corporate dairy processors should be allowed to buy milk under contracts that would pay...

They have another name, a more truthful name - factory farms, although they have nothing to do with farming and lots to do with manufacturing. They've reduced animal husbandry to an industrial process, right down to knowing exactly how long an animal gets to live (used to be, chickens had exactly 60 days of life, according to an old boss who worked in the business perhaps, through the marvels of efficiency, they've even managed to knock that down a few days since) During the course of the...

Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow swine held on farms to be released and approved for processing. Testing of meat from swine exposed to the feed in question confirms that melamine and melamine compounds do not accumulate in pork and are filtered out of the body by the action of the kidneys. Swine known to have eaten this feed appear healthy, which will be confirmed as these animals undergo the rigorous inspection that FSIS provides for all meat and poultry prior to processing. The...