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Food Safety Has a Produce Problem

Fresh produce is having a rough run, and the salad drawer is starting to look less wholesome and more like a risk-management exercise with ranch dressing. Lettuce pray: Federal investigators have been tracking a nine-state Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The investigation grew after nearly 2,000 cases were reported among people who had eaten at Taco Bell, which is not

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Beef Prices Still Have Room to Moo-ve

Cattle prices may not have hit the ceiling yet, which is welcome news for sellers and less charming news for anyone who enjoys buying brisket without first checking their credit score. By the numbers: David Anderson, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension livestock marketing economist and professor, said smaller cattle supplies and continued beef demand could keep prices moving higher. At the recent short course, he pointed to slow herd rebuilding as the reason beef production i

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Food Safety Has a Produce Problem

Fresh produce is having a rough run, and the salad drawer is starting to look less wholesome and more like a risk-management exercise with ranch dressing. Lettuce pray: Federal investigators have been tracking a nine-state Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The investigation grew after nearly 2,000 cases were reported among people who had eaten at Taco Bell, which is not

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Farm Bill Tractor Stalls

The Senate farm bill did not make it out of the gate before August recess. So yes, farmers are once again waiting on Congress, which is basically crop rotation but for disappointment. How it started: U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had hoped to move his Farm Bill 2.0 discussion draft through committee before the break. The draft included more than 100 bipartisan priorities, including risk management, conservation flexibility, spec

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Beef Prices Still Have Room to Moo-ve

Cattle prices may not have hit the ceiling yet, which is welcome news for sellers and less charming news for anyone who enjoys buying brisket without first checking their credit score. By the numbers: David Anderson, Ph.D., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension livestock marketing economist and professor, said smaller cattle supplies and continued beef demand could keep prices moving higher. At the recent short course, he pointed to slow herd rebuilding as the reason beef production i

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Food Safety Has a Produce Problem

Fresh produce is having a rough run, and the salad drawer is starting to look less wholesome and more like a risk-management exercise with ranch dressing. Lettuce pray: Federal investigators have been tracking a nine-state Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The investigation grew after nearly 2,000 cases were reported among people who had eaten at Taco Bell, which is not

Industry

10 hours ago

Farm Bill Tractor Stalls

The Senate farm bill did not make it out of the gate before August recess. So yes, farmers are once again waiting on Congress, which is basically crop rotation but for disappointment. How it started: U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, had hoped to move his Farm Bill 2.0 discussion draft through committee before the break. The draft included more than 100 bipartisan priorities, including risk management, conservation flexibility, spec

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Debt Relief Gets Planted

Young farmers may get a little debt relief before their student loans start charging rent on the combine. How it starts: U.S. Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., U.S. Representative Joe Courtney, D-Conn., U.S. Representative Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, and U.S. Representative Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., introduced the Young Farmer Success Act to make qualified farm and ranch work count toward federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The dirt: Earlier versions of the bill

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Farm Bill Gets a Paper Bale

The Senate farm bill is back at the policy feed bunk, and everyone has brought a scoop. The big pile: U.S. Senator John Boozman, R-Ark., chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, released Farm Bill 2.0 with more than 100 bipartisan priorities tucked inside. That is not a bill summary, that is a policy hay bale with footnotes. What’s in the wagon: The draft is pitched around stronger risk management, conservation flexibility, specialty crops, drought tools, rural small busine

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Data Centers Start Grazing

Texas cattle country has a new neighbor at the fence line: the cloud, which apparently also wants water, electricity and a whole lot of land. Server pasture: At the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course, ranchland experts warned that data centers are becoming a bigger topic as rural land gets eyed for digital infrastructure. Texas already loses about 1,000 acres of farm, ranch and forest land each day, and servers do not exactly graze gently. Resource roundup: The concern is not

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Market Power Gets a California Field Test

The squeeze: California’s AB 1776 has agriculture parked in the middle of a fight over market power. The bill would expand the state’s Cartwright Act to cover monopolization and monopsony, aka the buyer-side version of monopoly. It is dry legal language, right up until you are the grower with one realistic place to sell. Farm gate angle: Supporters say farmers can get boxed in both directions: too few choices when buying fertilizer, seed or equipment, then too few processors

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Aug 4

Voluntary Label Gets Branded

Label herd: USDA’s Product of USA label keeps adding names to the chute. Six more meat and poultry companies joined the voluntary program, giving the origin-labeling fight a fresh news peg and a little more sizzle in the meat case. Fine print: Under the updated rule, companies can use the claim only when animals are born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States. That closes the old loophole where imported meat could pick up a U.S. label after processing here. V

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