Members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Virachai Plasai, ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States, calling for the removal of restrictions on imports of U.S. farm products, including U.S. pork. The bipartisan…
Growing demand and limited real estate has Chinese pork producers looking to the skies for expanded production. More "high-rise hog hotels" are going up on Yaji Mountain in southern China, as the country rapidly modernizes their hog industry. Farm Journal’s…
Instead of seven to 10 long years of waiting for the next “big” jump in yield or agronomic improvement, precision gene editing technology could get it on farms in as few as three years. USDA is watching this technology, too,…
JBS USA has recalled approximately 35,464 lb. of raw ground beef following the finding of hard plastic in contaminated beef. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made the announcement on May 2 following the…
An estimated 1,500 head of cattle have died following wildfires in Oklahoma that have burned for nearly two weeks, and that projection could increase. Reports from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture earlier in the week projected that 1,100 cattle had…
The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to update its branding requirements for cattle entering the United States from Mexico. The changes would simplify the branding requirements, making the brands easier…
February exports of U.S. pork, beef and lamb were higher than a year ago in both volume and value, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF). Pork exports totaled 205,466 metric tons…
Today, China is delivering a second blow to the trade war developing with the U.S. The country issued a $50 billion list of U.S. goods at risk for a possible tariff hike, including U.S. soybeans and beef. There's no date…
Cash fed cattle prices were completed early this week, with prices in the North at $120 to $123 per cwt. live and $121 in the South. Dressed prices were quotes at $191 to $194. That's $5 per cwt. lower than…
Frozen stocks of meat and poultry products show some diverging trends, especially when considered in the context of increasing U.S. production levels. In January and February, according to the latest Livestock Slaughter report from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS),…