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What is the Future for Grains, Biofuels, and Feed for Livestock?
Dr. Bob Wisner, Iowa State University, and Joel Newman, President and CEO of American Feed Industry Association, provide some highlights of the report titled "Future Patterns of U.S. Grains, Biofuels, and Livestock and Poultry Feeding". Audio link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/trufflemedia/120717_SwineCast_0720.mp3 Report PDF: http://agtoday.us/future-patterns-grains-feed This is a another report that highlights the conflicts of having corn being used as a feed grain and a source of energy (ethanol): "Biofuels: A Major Driver of the Changing Feed Cost Environment" is one of the first executive summary points.
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The design and development of the USA Farm Bill 2012 has been in the works for several year. What is needed to get from here to there? Will agricultural subsidy policy and implementation be changed? Subsidies? And will the US election delay any legislation?
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You have to laugh when an ag issue like animal welfare makes it to the Muppets:) "The Blue Danube Waltz" as conducted by The Great Gonzo and featuring the lovely Camilla (c) 2009 The Muppets Studio, LLC...
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This is a great post on what is important to Americans (follow the money). Food related personal spending today is about ~15% compared to 40% in 1949.
Managing health certificates is a slow process because it is still predominately paper. Slow, tedious, and paper intensive. Dr. Keith Roehr, State Veterinarian, Colorado Department of Agriculture, provides a vision of being full digital and the serious improvements to all stake holders and the ecosystem as a whole.
This is a great visual tool to help plan planting, irrigation, and possibly crop insurance needs. And for the non-ag, planning vacations, gardens, and other water focused activities.
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Meatingplace magazine editor Janie Gabbett, from the 2012 Animal Agriculture Alliance Stakeholder's Summit, reviews how the media treated recent agriculture stories of lean finely textured beef (LFTB)/ pink slime, swine gestation stalls, and BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and offers some deconstruction for each event.
A plant pathologist and an organic farmer co-author a book about how agricultural biotechnology and organic farming can coexist to produce abundant food and enhance the ecologic sustainability of farms.
Via Annals of Botany: Plant Science Research, Ruth Bastow
As food safety issues continue to garner national attention, North Carolina State University is helping farmers in the state take steps to manage food safety risks.
Via NCSU CALS
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It seems like there is a lot of opportunity for 'mischief' in Washington right now. We share a conversation with producer Bill Luckey on his congressional testimony about HR 3798. A.K.A. the Egg Bill, is the bill which was the outcome of a United Egg Producers/Humane Society of the United States agreement. Direct audio link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/trufflemedia/120405_SwineCast_0702b.mp3
Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ban on certain uses of cephalosporins, which are one type, or class, of antibiotics. Direct audio link: http://agtoday.us/Ig8CpI
Kai Robertson, Director, Food, Beverage & Agriculture Practice, BSR, startled many of at the 2012 Bayer CropScience Ag Issues Forum (Nashville, TN) with a statistic from EPA (estimate) that more than 67 billion pounds of food end up in a land fill each year.
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