A national trade organization representing beef producers is pushing back against a research project that has found that dust from feedlots can contaminate produce growing fields and irrigation water.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association posted a statement saying that more research is needed.
The pushback came after the Food and
Continue Reading Cattlemen contest research that shows dust from feedlots can contaminate irrigation water, leafy greens
The Supreme Court’s decision in Sackett v EPA, announced on May 25, 2023, was unanimous in that the EPA’s wetlands regulatory jurisdiction is limited to wetlands with a continuous surface connection to the waters of the United States. And the Supreme Court decided that the EPA’s wetlands regulatory jurisdiction is
Continue Reading Sackett ruling should erase the existing Waters of the U. S. rule, cattlemen say
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) for a new labeling scheme for beef products.
The petition, assigned to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development, is being considered for rulemaking. It is the second petition received by FSIS this year.
Continue Reading It won’t be COOL, but cattlemen say it will improve beef labeling
Since Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue named Mindy Brashears Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, the former Texas Tech University food safety professor is finding herself in demand.
Perdue named Brashears to the post on Jan. 28 so she could work at USDA while continuing to wait for the U.S.
Continue Reading USDA food safety official reports first meetings with people outside federal government
Justing repeating its choice for a preferred regulatory agency did not sound like much of a strategy for the meat industry, and the “name game” left the cell-cultured food technologists looking a little confused.
After two -days of public meetings this week in Washington D.C., the government can claim it
Continue Reading Regulatory regime for cell-cultured food is on agenda for 2019
Atlantic magazine’s Sarah Zhang may have best captured what went on last month at the Food and Drug Administration’s public meeting on animal cell culture technology.
“This is a war of words, with each one chosen to evoke specific associations.” Zhang wrote. “And it is a war to define
Continue Reading Will whoever regulates cell culture technology also get the naming rights?
In public policy, as in life, learning from past mistakes is a cardinal rule for success. That is why it was disappointing to see Thomas Gremillion from the Consumer Federation of America advocate for the reinstatement of mandatory country-of-origin labelling (MCOOL) for beef and pork in a recent guest opinion
Continue Reading Country-of-origin labeling has no place in NAFTA 2.0
The chief executive of the nation’s oldest and largest cattle industry association thinks a competing group is in bed with radical activists who want to “undermine the beef industry.”
Kendal Frazier, who is chief executive officer of the Denver-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, took a shot or two at the
Continue Reading Beef beef: NCBA chief’s remarks spur R-CALF to seek debate
When the bitter cold began spreading over rural America last month, the parlor guessing game around many a wood stove was guessing who President-elect Donald J. Trump would name as secretary of agriculture. But the time for that game has passed.
The past three presidents all named their ag bosses
Continue Reading Secretary of Agriculture choice not as difficult as farm policy
One of the state units of the federal Cattleman’s Beef Production and Research Board (Beef Board) will be effectively sidelined if a federal magistrate judge’s order is allowed to take effect.
In a series of preliminary rulings that went almost entirely against federal Beef Board, U.S. Magistrate Judge John Johnston
Continue Reading Montana unit of federal Beef Checkoff ordered to stand down
