Items Tagged with 'feed'

The number of cattle in feedlots declined to nearly 11.6 million head in May, down 1% from a year ago, according to USDA's latest Cattle on Feed report.

Is a seaweed feed additive which can significantly reduce methane emissions considered a feed ingredient or animal drug? What about an animal food ingredient which could actually reduce the risk of salmonella? According to current Food and Drug Administration policy, the answer is an animal drug, adding years and additional cost to gain approval from FDA.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative still isn’t ready to sit down with Chinese trade officials and hash out a new path forward for trade relations, but U.S. farm groups are losing patience with the status quo.

A wide-ranging executive order that President Joe Biden signed Friday seeks to address consolidation throughout the economy and includes a special focus on actions the Department of Agriculture could take to address the meat industry and antitrust enforcement.

Chinese buyers made another large purchase commitment for U.S. corn this week, snapping up 1.7 million metric tons for delivery in the 2020-21 marketing year, according to a daily export sale report released Thursday by the USDA.

Anti-biotech activists and sentiment are entrenched throughout Africa, but U.S. farm groups and businesses are hoping a free trade agreement with Kenya will help the country break through its GMO barriers and provide an example to other nations of what the science can do for farmers and food security.

The USDA has discovered that a cow in Florida was infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as mad cow disease, according to government and industry officials. A USDA spokesman confirmed that the Florida cow suffered the rare "atypical" type of BSE that is believed to develop randomly in cows.

Feed tonnage has exceeded 1 billion metric tons for the second consecutive year, according to the 2018 Alltech Global Feed Survey.