Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has returned to the Upper Midwest of the United States with a vengeance. After a break from spring through early fall, new case reports are stacking up for commercial flocks.
The new bird flu reports include the following:
The break in the blue flu outbreak that began last April may be over.
The first spread of the virus since then has occurred in a 47,300 flock of turkeys in South Dakota.
The turkey farm in Jeruald County, SD, was forced to kill its flock to control the disease
Continue Reading Bird flu is back among commercial poultry flocks in U.S.
The animal research and diagnostic lab at South Dakota State University has confirmed the presence of Anthrax in a beef herd West of the Missouri River.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Anthrax can cause severe illness in humans and animals. CDC lists Anthrax as
Continue Reading Rare anthrax strikes beef herd in South Dakota’s West River ranch country
Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,” laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and a sixth is about the join the Show-Me-State ban.
It means at least seven new
Continue Reading The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states
While lawyers continue talking in Missouri, lawmakers in at least three more states have passed bills to legally prohibit “mislabeling” of food products derived from animal cultures, plants or insects as meat.
Mississippi Gov, Phil Bryant, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, both Republicans, have already signed bills overwhelming passed
Continue Reading 3 states join contested Missouri ban on using “meat” on cell-cultured product labels
ELK POINT, SD — A 12-member jury and four alternates, including 11 women and five men, are ready to hear opening arguments today in a $1.9 billion defamation trial scheduled to last eight weeks here at the Union County Court House.
Union County Courthouse in Elk
Continue Reading Jury trial begins today in BPI v. ABC on the saga of ‘pink slime’
Mandatory country-of-origin-labeling bills for beef and ground beef made it out of committees in Pierre and Cheyenne, but got no further in the farm and ranch friendly South Dakota and Wyoming Legislatures.
Senate Bill 135 went down in the South Dakota Senate on Feb. 25. It would have required grocery
Continue Reading Wyoming, South Dakota nix country-of-origin-labeling for beef
As individual actions, they might not mean much. Collectively, they say Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL) is not going away anytime soon.
Two states known for their cowboys, Wyoming and South Dakota, have seen early introduction of COOL bills in their legislatures, respectively, in Cheyenne and Pierre. Cattlemen headquartered in neighboring Montana
Continue Reading Ranchers look for some traction on country-of-origin labeling
Anyone who ate or drank at the Pizza Works restaurant in Custer, SD, between June 19 and July 5 is at risk of exposure to Hepatitis A, the state Department of Health reports. 
“A case of hepatitis A has been reported in a food handler at the Pizza Works restaurant
Continue Reading South Dakota officials issue Hepatitis A warning
Oregon’s ban on advertising raw milk, which is no longer enforced, will likely be removed from the law books entirely after a 9-0 vote Thursday by the House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. The favorable committee vote moves House Bill 2446 as written to the floor without any amendments.
Continue Reading Oregon’s Ban on Raw Milk Advertising Could be Headed for the History Books
