Hong Kong culls thousands of birds after virus found in chicken
Health workers here began slaughtering more than 17,000 chickens on Wednesday after a carcass infected with bird flu was found at a poultry market, government officials said. It was the first large-scale culling in three years.
USDA delays implementation of poultry product labeling regulations
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is delaying the effective date of the final regulations that require nutrition labeling of the major cuts of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry products and ground or chopped mean and poultry products that were published in the Federal Register on December 29, 2010.
CSU Fresno receives $7000 USPOULTRY Foundation grant
California State University, Fresno, recently received a $7,000 student recruiting grant from the USPOULTRY Foundation. The check was presented by Richie King, Vice President of Chicken Plant Operations, Foster Farms, and USPOULTRY board member, to Dr. Michelle Ganci, Lecturer, Poultry Instructor and Internship Coordinator, Animal Sciences and Agricultural Education Department, California State University, Fresno.
Marlene Busick retires after 34 years at the national NPIP office
The National Poultry Improvement Plan is certainly one of the most important poultry health programs in the world, and over the years we have been fortunate to have program leaders at the National office who were not only very competent in their work, but passionate about their jobs.
Law Students Take On Family Farm
Alan and Kristin Hudson, fourth generation Maryland chicken farmers, want to know why tax-supported law students should be allowed to represent environmental groups while they must hire their own attorney.
The Waterkeeper Alliance and the Assateague Coastkeeper are suing Hudson’s chicken farm for allegedly polluting a ditch that drains into the Pocomoke River. Read Full Story
Renewable Fuels Association spends $259K in 3Q to lobby on ethanol subsidies, other issues
The Renewable Fuels Association spent nearly $259,000 in the third quarter to lobby the federal government on ethanol tax incentives and other issues, according to a disclosure report. That’s up from […]
The cellulosic ethanol debacle
Years before the Obama Administration dumped $70 billion into solar and wind energy and battery operated cars, and long before anyone heard of Solyndra, President Bush launched his own version […]
Update from Bill Mattos
Bill Mattos is in Washington D.C. this week talking to elected officials about ethanol and other issues. Click here to read a letter sent today to all the energy staff […]
December issues of CDFA Animal Health Branch newsletter and CAHFS newsletter available here
The CDFA Animal Health Branch is California’s organized, professional veterinary medical unit that protects livestock populations, consumers and the State’s economy from catastrophic animal diseases and other health or agricultural […]
Livestock, poultry industries boost U.S. economy
The soybean checkoff talks a lot about U.S. soybean farmers’ No. 1 customers – poultry and livestock farmers. But these sectors impact more than just a soybean farmer’s profit potential. […]