Cargill announces voluntary ground turkey recall
Cargill Value Added Meats Retail, a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, today announced an immediate Class I voluntary recall of approximately 36 million pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company’s Springdale, Ark., facility from Feb. 20, 2011, through Aug. 2, 2011, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Heidelberg.
Foster Farms contract turkey grower claims national title in WWA wakeboarding championship
Nilsen captures first title as Nautique WWA Nationals wrap up 11 divisions
Chicken and Turkey Production Demystified
TUCKER, GA, July 27, 2011 – U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) announces the release of a new video that takes a look at how chickens and turkeys are raised in the United States. The video takes a behind-the-scenes look at hatcheries and poultry farms. It addresses areas such as sanitation practices, vaccination techniques, poultry diets, poultry litter management, and the safeguarding of natural resources, as well as highlights the sustainability of the modern poultry industry.
2011 CPF Annual Meeting and Conference
The California Poultry Federation Annual Meeting and Conference is set for Sept. 15-16 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. I’ve attached a sponsor form that you can return by fax, email and/or snail mail; you will notice that out sponsor rates haven’t changed in 15 years, and I’m hopeful that will entice you to sponsor and make this one of our best meetings ever.
Foster Farms gets favorable ruling from USDA on chicken labeling
Foster Farms scored a victory Thursday in its bid to have rivals better disclose the additives in their poultry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on labeling for […]
USDA Announces Proposed Rule to Better Label Raw Meat and Poultry Containing Added Solutions
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2011 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a new rule to establish common, easy-to-understand names for raw meat […]
Chicken found to be the most environmentally-friendly meat!
Research recently released by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) shows chicken as the best meat for the environment, producing the lowest carbon footprint of the most common meat proteins. […]
WASDE report marks turning point as ethanol gobbles up corn, NCC says
WASHINGTON, July 13, 2011/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — This week’s report on corn and other grains by the U.S. Department of Agriculture marks an important turning point in the evolution of agriculture, according […]
LA farmers market of Eat Local, Buy California Grown
Watch a new video here of Assembly member Fiona Ma last week at the LA Farmers Market promoting the Eat Local, Buy California Grown resolution.
Bill’s Blog: We’ve never been closer to ending the subsidy for corn ethanol than now
The U.S. Senate recently voted 73-27 in favor of an amendment by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to eliminate the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) and repeal the import tariff on foreign ethanol. The amendment was identical to the Ethanol Subsidy and Tariff Repeal Act, which was introduced by Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.) and Senator Feinstein in May.