USDA’s Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) continues an 18-month investigation into what USDA referred to as “schemes to falsify the selling price of livestock at livestock auction markets across the country in violation of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.

In response to BLM’s Request for Applications, the Deerwood Ranch in Centennial Valley, WY, was selected in February 2012 as the site for BLM’s first wild horse ecosanctuary.

More than 15,000 head of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, llamas, alpacas, bison, yak, poultry and rabbits step foot on the grounds of the NWSS each year. NWSS is noted for hosting the world’s only carload and pen cattle show, held in the historic Denver Union Stockyards.

Demand for U.S. meat products covered by the mandatory country of original labeling (MCOOL) law that took effect in 2009 has not been impacted by the presence of the labels, according to a new analysis by the Kansas State University (KSU) Department of Agricultural Economics.

“This is a significant step forward for the sorghum industry,” said Bill Kubecka, Sorghum Checkoff Program chairman and a producer from Palacios, TX. “This pathway for grain sorghum will make sorghum a more profitable biofuel feedstock for the renewables industry, thus increasing the value and demand for sorghum.

efficiency and immune suppression, according to Lee Jones, assistant professor and veterinary field investigator, UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. Without a proper parasite plan, problems can go unnoticed for several months, and may even end with animal deaths.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently denied requests for a waiver of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), allowing for as much as 40 percent of America’s corn crop to be processed into biofuels instead of food.

Discussions about the Republican party being willing to consider tax increases to avoid the fiscal cliff have been making the rounds. But, ironically, the numbers they’ve thrown out have been a bit too large for Democrats. Cuts that were on the table just last year are now being snubbed by the very same side that proposed them.

“In light of the most widespread drought to face the country in more than 50 years, the refusal to grant this waiver is a blatant example of the flawed policy of the RFS,” said National cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) President J.D. Alexander, a cattle feeder from Pilger, NE.

And to the relief of many, one of the first bills to begin the lame duck session was a bill passed through the House of Representatives that would upgrade U.S. trade relations with Russia. But the bill has a controversial piece that includes punishment of Russian officials for human rights violations.