NDA Reports Case of HPAI, Reminds Poultry Producers to Remain Vigilant

NDA Reports Case of HPAI, Reminds Poultry Producers to Remain Vigilant

LINCOLN – The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) is reminding poultry owners to continue to monitor for and protect their birds against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Recently, NDA in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, confirmed a case of HPAI in Nebraska in a small backyard flock in…
What are alternative feedstuffs for cattle? 

What are alternative feedstuffs for cattle? 

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The term ‘alternative feedstuffs’ can mean a lot of different things, but in feeding cattle, it includes edibles not commonly found in the feed bunk.  K-State Research and Extension beef specialist Justin Waggoner uses soybean hay as an example. He said cattle producers don’t normally feed soybean…
Jury Rules that Egg Producers Conspired to Fix Prices

Jury Rules that Egg Producers Conspired to Fix Prices

An Illinois jury found that several of the country’s major egg producers conspired to limit America’s supply of eggs in order to raise prices in a case that began in a federal lawsuit 12 years ago. Several large food manufacturing companies in the lawsuit filed in 2011 said producers used…
Smith Statement on Dairy Announcement

Smith Statement on Dairy Announcement

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Adrian Smith, Chairman of the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, released the following statement after the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement panel issued their final report on the U.S.-Canada dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation dispute: “I remain fully supportive of Ambassador Tai and Secretary Vilsack’s efforts to hold…
Reducing Hay Feeding Losses

Reducing Hay Feeding Losses

Hay is expensive and many long hours go into harvesting, storing, and feeding it.  Don’t waste up to a third of it by using poor feeding practices. Believe it or not, cattle can trample, over consume, manure on, and use for bedding up to 25 to 45 percent of your…
USMCA Dispute Panel Limits Canadian Market Access

USMCA Dispute Panel Limits Canadian Market Access

ARLINGTON, VA – Today’s ruling by a U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute panel allowing Canada to restrict the dairy access that the United States negotiated for in the USMCA pact weakens the agreement’s value to the US dairy industry, according to the National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council. An earlier panel…
Midwest sheep and goat marker report for the week of November 25th

Midwest sheep and goat marker report for the week of November 25th

For the week ending November 25th the Midwest sheep and goat market was thinly traded as would be expected for Thanksgiving week. I hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving this past week. There were only 2 sales in our typical trade area this week. With that the market could be…