beef exports to Japan remain in flux, pork exports continue at a steady clip despite producers' fears that new import standards could give Japan an excuse to reject pork shipments. pork exports worth more than $1 billion, according to the U. But once information about the rules became clear, ''we realized it wasn't too big a deal,'' Luckey said of producers in Nebraska, where pork is the fourth-largest agricultural commodity. The new rules, which went into effect last May, changed maximum...

They found 33 farms with swine in that area. Department of Agriculture have completed surveying the five-mile area around the Loyal farm to find premises where swine are kept. Ehlenfeldt announced last Wednesday that all swine in the five-mile area surrounding the Greenwood farm had tested negative for pseudorabies, and he lifted quarantines on those farms. The two farms will be cleaned and disinfected in the next couple of weeks. The USDA has allowed the state to retain its...

In that report -- he states there has been a technological and genitic revolution in the pork industry that has changed the way farmers sent the animals to market. Dalrymple tells Bayshore Broadcasting News there used to be a five to one feed conversion to produce one kilogram of pork and that has been reduced to two and a half to one today. However he says despite these changes in production, pork producers are actually getting less for their product at the farm gate now than 30 years...

Feral swine, which have long roamed the countryside in the southern and southwestern United States, are becoming increasingly common elsewhere in the country. Although some wild hogs are simply domestic stock that escaped, state officials are concerned that more of the animals are escapees from captive game farms or from breeders who raise swine -- Russian boars, razorbacks, etc. Of the 821 licensed privately owned deer and elk facilities in Michigan, 46 have reported having swine in their...

beef exports to Japan remain in flux, pork exports continue at a steady clip despite producers' fears that new import standards could give Japan an excuse to reject pork shipments. pork exports _ worth more than $1 billion, according to the U. But once information about the rules became clear, "we realized it wasn't too big a deal," Luckey said of producers in Nebraska, where pork is the fourth-largest agricultural commodity. The new rules, which went into effect last May, changed maximum...

But that s exactly what happened after Menu Foods initiated the largest pet food recall in history two months ago in mid-March when it recalled nearly 100 brands of pet food totaling more than 60 million containers of wet canned and pouched cat and dog food. But that s exactly what happened after Menu Foods initiated the largest pet food recall in history two months ago in mid-March when it recalled nearly 100 brands of pet food totaling more than 60 million containers of wet canned and...

The non-native pigs, which have infested all but a handful of Texas' 254 counties, compete directly with native wildlife, occasionally prey on some, do millions of dollars of damage annually to agricultural interests and have even become a problem in suburbia where sounders of feral hogs regularly destroy yards. Few in Texas wouldn't agree that feral hogs are a bane on the landscape, and every effort should be made to reduce their numbers. The non-native pigs, which have infested all but a...

Sat, 05/05/2007 - 14:56 admin Statement of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on its Decision to Close Its Investigation of Smithfield inc.s Acquisition of Premium Standard Farms inc.; Division Concludes Merged Firm is Not Likely to Harm Competition, Consumers or Farmers. Sat, 05/05/2007 - 14:56 admin Statement of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on its Decision to Close Its Investigation of Smithfield inc.s Acquisition of Premium Standard Farms inc.; Division...

FDA and USDA say no illnesses have been associated with pork products from swine that ate contaminated feed, and the likelihood of such illness is very low. About 6,000 hogs on eight operations have been quarantined from the food supply, and USDA has offered to compensate producers who euthanize swine that ate the contaminated feed. FDA is not issuing a recall of products from contaminated animals, but swine that have eaten the contaminated product will not be allowed to enter the food...