2012 CPF Annual Meeting and Conference
The California Poultry Federation Annual Meeting and Conference is Sept. 13-14 in Monterey, and again this year we couldn’t hold this popular event without the help of sponsoring companies, organizations, allied members and processing leaders. We need all of you to make this a success.
Food Prices to Rise in Calif. Amid Drought Elsewhere
The drought is pushing up the cost of meat and milk and other dairy products for the state’s consumers. That’s because the cost of feed for California cattle, poultry and hog farmers is soaring as Midwest farms face a shortage of corn and soybean — key feed ingredients. Read more
More than one-third of US Representatives urge EPA to waive ethanol mandate; Poultry industry hails
As the worst drought in a half century continues, a bipartisan group of 156 members of Congress is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to act immediately to reduce the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) mandate to account for the severe anticipated corn shortage.
Opinion: Corn for Food, Not Fuel
IT is not often that a stroke of a pen can quickly undo the ravages of nature, but federal regulators now have an opportunity to do just that. Americans’ food budgets will be hit hard by the ongoing Midwestern drought, the worst since 1956.
Corn shortage and California
Insight: Capital Public Radio
Corn Shortage & California: The devastating drought in the Midwest is having a mixed effect on California farmers. Corn producers in the Golden State, whose crops are being herald as better than usual, are benefiting from a spike in the price of the crop, which is being driven up by a bidding war between ethanol producers and feed dealers.
Livestock and poultry coalition urges waiver of RFS because of drought
As drought conditions become the worst in 50 years and corn yields are expected to drop significantly, a coalition of meat and poultry organizations today asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to waive the federal mandate for the production of corn ethanol."
Livestock producers petition EPA to waive corn-ethanol mandate
A group of livestock producers filed a petition Monday with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting a one-year waiver from a corn-ethanol rule they say is raising food prices. At issue is the EPA’s renewable fuel standard (RFS), which requires 15 billion gallons of domestic corn ethanol to be blended into the nation’s motor fuel supply by 2022, with a 2012 target of 13.2 billion gallons.
Ground broken on new Foster Farms poultry education facility
Ground was broken July 27 at Fresno State on the innovative Foster Farms Poultry Education and Research Facility, which is scheduled to open in the spring 2013, semester. This state-of-the-art educational facility is made possible by a generous gift to Fresno State from Foster Farms, which is contributing to the engineering, design and construction as well as providing ongoing program support.
USPOULTRY releases “Poultry & The Hormone Myth” video
One of the most common…and frustrating…questions for U.S. poultry producers is why hormones are used to produce today’s poultry products. Of course, the actual answer is NO hormones are used. […]
CPF welcomes new allied member DiBubuo & DeFendis
DiBubuo & DeFendis has been serving the insurance and risk management needs of the agricultural community for over fifty years. Our highly trained staff will assist California Poultry Federation members with their health, property, farm & general liability, auto & truck fleets, animal mortality, and workers compensation insurance programs.