APHIS Proposing Voluntary Certification Program 05/15/2007 USDA worked cooperatively with the National Pork Board and the pork processing industry to develop a voluntary certification program that will enhance the ability of producers to export pork and pork products to overseas markets. APHIS Proposing Voluntary Certification Program 05/15/2007 USDA worked cooperatively with the National Pork Board and the pork processing industry to develop a voluntary certification program that will...

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...

We said that in cases where the contaminated feed could be traced to farms but the concentration of melamine in feed consumed by animals was so diluted because the pet food scraps would be used only as a supplement to other feed as to be undetected by testing, animals could be released. We said that in cases where the contaminated feed could be traced to farms but the concentration of melamine in feed consumed by animals was so diluted because the pet food scraps would be used only as a...

That cost's magnitude is only now becoming obvious, and painful, to power- hungry technology firms, according to Taylor and a dozen others interviewed for this story. The cost of such a power surge is having a direct impact on the buying decisions, operational plans, and research-and-development efforts at large tech firms from Boston to Austin to San Francisco. That's a dramatic shift from earlier this decade, when Akamai's customers were mostly busy Web sites needing to move huge files...