Building relationships overseas will build trade opportunities; and that, said Indiana’s agriculture officials last week, will open new markets for Hoosier farm products.
Pence tours flooded fields in Indiana to assess losses
For three weeks, Steve Plank watched 17 inches of rain flood his tomatoes, corn and soybeans in rural Cass County. By his estimation, his tomato crop is a total disaster, corn is stunted and beans are half the size they should be.
Four Ohio farm contractors charged in slave-labor ring
Four farm contractors have been charged in a 15-count federal indictment for operating a slave-labor ring using young immigrant teenagers who were forced to clean chicken coops that housed 10 million chickens on nine central Ohio egg farms.
Indiana BOAH to consider proposed avian health rule
The Indiana Board of Animal Health (BOAH) will have its third quarterly meeting of 2015 on July 9 at 9:30 a.m. And it’s no surprise issues surrounding the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) headline the agenda.
States collaborate to conserve voluntarily for water concerns
An interesting success story is unfolding, in a collaborative approach to addressing water concerns in Lake Erie, said Jason Weller, chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc. (NCBA) and U.S. Cattlemen’s Assoc. (USCA) may disagree on country of origin labeling, but agreed last week on another issue: Fresh beef from cattle raised in Brazil and Argentina should be kept out of the United States, for fear of introducing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Assoc. (NCBA) and U.S. Cattlemen’s Assoc. (USCA) last week opposed the USDA move toward allowing beef imports from Brazil and Argentina.
Tri-state program intended to reduce Erie phosphorous
Farmers in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio will have additional tools to help prevent harmful algae blooms in Lake Erie thanks to a phosphorous reduction program announced June 29.
Rain continued to wreak havoc on Illinois growers racing to plant the last of their soybeans, or replant waterlogged areas, as well as those itching to harvest winter wheat.
