If you’re someone who has ever wished someone would come up to your front door and offer to sell you meat, Arkansas’ attorney general has some advice from you.
Don’t get tricked by unscrupulous meat dealers looking to swap their low-quality meats for your hard-earned cash.
Read MoreThe December 2021 Price & Production Summary gives prices for cattle, poultry, hogs and dairy.
Read MoreThis week, Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) published a report analyzing the economic impacts of higher fertilizer prices on the AFPC’s 64 representative crop farms.
Read MoreThe beef cattle market ended 2021 on a positive note. Prices for our Louisiana calves were $10.00- $20.00 cwt. higher in December 2021 compared to the same time in 2020.
Read MoreI work with veterinarians who research influenza—the flu—in Ohio. They spend days at county fairs taking nasal swabs from pigs and blood samples from people who work with pigs. They follow the spread of disease from animals to people and from people to animals. Pigs that get the flu run fevers, become lethargic, and sometimes have respiratory symptoms, just like people. Veterinarians often recommend vaccinating animals to prevent flu and other diseases.
More than 10 years ago, these veterinarians told me a pandemic was due. They expected something like the 1918 flu, which caused millions of deaths worldwide. They thought an influenza outbreak would start in animals and move to people—a typical zoonotic disease.
Read MoreSpeaking at a White House event focused on competition in agriculture, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland expressed their shared commitment to effectively enforcing federal competition laws that protect farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural producers and growers from unfair and anticompetitive practices, including the antitrust laws and the Packers and Stockyards Act.
Read MoreAmerican Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on the “Biden-Harris Administration’s Action Plan for a Fairer, More Competitive, and More Resilient Meat and Poultry Supply Chain.”
Read MorePresident Joe Biden met virtually with independent farmers and ranchers to discuss initiatives to reduce food prices by increasing competition within the meat industry, part of a broader effort to show the administration is trying to combat inflation.
Read MoreJudging from the prices at supermarkets and restaurants, this would appear to be a lucrative moment for cattle ranchers like Steve Charter.
America is consuming more beef than ever, while prices have climbed by one-fifth over the past year — a primary driver for the growing alarm over inflation.
Read MoreThe LSU AgCenter will hold the Central Region Crops and Cattle Forum on Thursday, Jan. 6, at the State Evacuation Shelter near the LSUA campus in Alexandria.
Read MoreWe would appreciate your feedback on the possibility of hosting a one or two day event where you could bring your bull(s) to the Dean Lee Research Station or nearby veterinary clinic to have breeding soundness exam(s) performed by a local veterinarian.
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