Beef producers have a new template to secure sound biosecurity practices on their operations.

The National Pork Board’s AgView, a web-based software tool, is designed to protect the swine industry infrastructure against foreign animal diseases (FAD) and potential loss of export markets.

The Department of Agriculture plans to withdraw another Obama administration regulation impacting the livestock industry, this time choosing to pull language setting animal welfare standards in organic agriculture.

A panel of witnesses spoke to the Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday and all essentially delivered the same message: the current defense against pests, pathogens, and biosecurity threats to the food system needs work.