Foster Farms offers Thanksgiving help for home cooks

Foster Farms provides Thanksgiving home cooks turkey tips, cooking times, recipes and support online at www.fosterfarms.com/campaigns/thanksgiving/. Having a turkey conundrum? Between November 18 and December 4, consumers can call for live […]

Trucking bill offers additional ag exemptions

Reps. Angie Craig (D., Minn.) and Lloyd Smucker (R., Pa.) introduced the Responsible & Efficient Agriculture Destination (TREAD) Act to provide for an additional 150-air-mile exemption from Hours of Service […]

Poultry Industry Announces Alliance with OSHA

Washington D.C. The poultry industry has long recognized the importance of establishing collaborative relationships to promote employee health and safety practices and to develop programs to enhance poultry workplaces. As […]

CPF Quality Assurance Seminar November 14

The CPF Quality Assurance Seminar will be held November 14, 2019 in Modesto at the Stanislaus County Ag Center. Topics will include the future of vND response, CAHFS update on […]

With another government funding deadline looming a month from now, Senate Republicans want to advance a fiscal 2020 domestic spending package as soon as this week that would include funding for departments and agencies critical to agriculture and the food industry. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has teed up votes on a pair of FY20 spending packages, one of which is expected to include the Senate version of the Agriculture and Interior-Environment bills, which would fund the Agriculture Department, Food and Drug Administration, Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. Senate passage of the package will allow the House and Senate to negotiate a final version of the measures. Read more

The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is hosting a free webinar called “Steps for Success: Your NPIP Biosecurity Audit” on November 6, […]