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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
A new report from UC Davis indicates farms with surrounding natural habitat experience the most benefits from birds, including less crop damage and lower food safety risks.
Laser beams and drones that look like hawks are among the hi-tech tools farmers have available to chase away birds that are taking big bites out of their crops.
WASHINGTON, March 16, 2017 – USDA has confirmed a second case of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Lincoln Country, Tennessee, in a commercial breeder flock less than two miles from where the disease was detected earlier this month.
WASHINGTON, March 5, 2017 – The first 2017 detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial U.S. flock has been confirmed in Tennessee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 – USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service on Wednesday detailed the final organic animal welfare rule it will release this week, and the finished product looks awfully similar to its previous proposal.
