Japan will keep its traditional cautious stance on talks over deregulation of beef imports with the U.S., new Farm Minister Masahiko Yamada said last week. Yamada was not willing to relax existing curbs on U.S. beef imports, news agency Kyodo quoted the minister as telling a news conference.

A vote in the U.S. Senate to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from going it alone in battling carbon dioxide emissions was deemed destined to fail last week without new last-minute support, according to congressional and private-sector sources.

The second annual Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame banquet will be held July 8, 2010, at 5 p.m. in Denver, CO. This years event will feature the announcement of the newest inductees of the Hall of Fame, as well as the first recipient of the Industry Leadership Award.

The National Cattlemens Beef Association (NCBA) and the Public Lands Council (PLC) are calling on Congress to protect family farms and ranches from being taxed out of business by supporting H.R. 5475, the Family Farm Estate Tax Relief Act of 2010. H.R.

From brush control on the ranch, to cuts of beef sold to the consumer, the 2010 Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course will provide a number of beef cattle-production demonstrations Aug. 2-4 in College Station, TX.

The Senate Agriculture Committee will begin a series of hearings ahead of drafting a new U.S. farm law by examining our most vital resourceour food supply, said chairman Blanche Lincoln last Tuesday.

Future National Cattle Evaluations will break new ground for the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) and American Simmental Association (ASA) as the two breeds combine resources for multi-breed genetic evaluation (MBGE) of their growth and carcass trait expected progeny differences (EPDs).

Uncertainty was the word used most often in talks at the Breimyer Seminar on Greenhouse Gas Regulations at the University of Missouri (MU) Reynolds Alumni Center.

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settlement with three environmental organizations may mean that operators of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) will be subject to increasing scrutiny in the years ahead. The court-ordered settlement states that the

Corn crop progress surged ahead last week with corn farmers in much of the country reporting progress well ahead of last year and the five-year average. According to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), planting progress reached 97 percent