Higher corn prices impact companies throughout the meat industry, including those with heavy positions in pork and beef production, such as Tyson, Smithfield and Hormel Foods. Some estimates have corn prices rising as high as $3 to $4 a bushel this year, eclipsing a record set more than a decade ago. One way chicken producers have boosted prices is by cutting production and bringing the supply-demand equation into better balance. Even when something happens half a world away, like an...

Although swine herds on farms within two miles of the infected hers will need to be retested after the infected farms have been cleaned and disinfected, there is no quarantine on those herds. ACCP To avoid future buildup of unused monies in the ACCP, the JFC acted to lower by about 30 percent the fees and surcharges paid by farmers when they purchase agricultural crop protection chemicals, including pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. Also approved was the motion to eliminate the...

An ISU animal science faculty member for 33 years, Christian also was a consultant for private and corporate firms associated with swine production. The farm became part of the animal science department in the 1970s and has a history of significant contributions to the swine industry. The facility provides research space for breeding and gestation stalls; gilt development pens; boar development and collection pens; semen processing and artificial insemination. Additionally, the ISU...

The Connecticut Post Online - New agency for food safety proposed. Rosa DeLauro called Tuesday for a speedy overhaul of the nation's food safety programs, calling the patchwork approach dysfunctional. Department of Agriculture, primarily for the inspection of slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants. DeLauro, who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, believes that recent food safety scares spinach, peanut butter and most recently pet food have heightened interest...

For the past seven years, Sperling has quietly assembled an unorthodox team of researchers poised to use all relevant technology - including, ultimately, therapeutic cloning, stem cell medicine, and genetic engineering - to alleviate human suffering and the fear of death. For the past seven years, Sperling has quietly assembled an unorthodox team of researchers poised to use all relevant technology - including, ultimately, therapeutic cloning, stem cell medicine, and genetic engineering -...