The study found that continued implementation of RFS from now to the year 2022 would include an $800 billion decrease in U.S.

Despite hopes that there may be an end to an 11-year battle, the newly proposed Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) document has created a wave of new controversy. On March 8, USDA announced its proposed new rules for labeling muscle cuts of meat, including a requirement to specify where the source animal was born, raised and slaughtered.

The nation’s livestock industry can find itself at odds with the U.S. oil and gas industry with concerns about potential groundwater contamination caused by such “fracking,” which involves injecting highly pressurized fluids into subterranean shale formations to create new veins or fractures, improving recovery of underground oil and gas.

The notice said that before USDA decided on the suspensions, NASS reviewed its survey programs against mission- and userbased criteria as well as the amount of time remaining in the fiscal year to conduct the surveys with the goal of finding available cost savings and maintaining the strongest data in service to agriculture.

U.S. live-hog and futures prices have fallen in recent weeks as gas prices have soared, budget sequestration has threatened to furlough federal meat inspectors, and global markets have reduced exports, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt says.

“There are a tremendous number of animals on the roads every day; a national program is needed to protect the entire livestock industry,” said Colorado State Veterinarian Dr. Keith Roehr.

It all started in California. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) began contacting veterinarians, whose practices were at least in part mobile, to tell them they could not legally transport controlled substances off their clinic/ home premises. To do so, DEA notified these veteri narians,.

Applications for the sixth annual checkoff-funded National Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) Awards are now being accepted.

Members of the House Agriculture Committee highlighted their problems with the way USDA would implement budget cuts. In particular, congressmen wanted assurances from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that sequester cuts would not disrupt the safety or markets of the meatpacking industry through furloughing meat inspectors.

The livestock and dairy projections are included in a 50-page briefing book, “U.S. Baseline Briefing Book: Projections for Agricultural and Biofuel Markets.” It was prepared by the MU Agricultural Markets and Policy team (amap..