Last year, under high-level pressure from China, the USDA passed a rule allowing China to export to the United States chickens that were grown and slaughtered in North America and then processed in China -- a rule that quickly passed through multiple levels of review and was approved the day before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Washington last April. Last year, under high-level pressure from China, the USDA passed a rule allowing China to export to the United States chickens that...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSAS) has announced that a beef processing company is recalling 129,000 pounds of beef products from 15 American states because of suspected contamination by the potentially deadly foodborne bacterium E coli O157:H7. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSAS) has announced that a beef processing company is recalling 129,000 pounds of beef products from 15 American states...

But many other pharmaceutical genetically-modified crops are already grown indoors or in inedible plants such as tobacco. The rice strains, made by Ventria Bioscience in Sacramento, California, produce lysozyme, lactoferrin and human serum albumin, commonly found in breast milk, in their seeds, it said. But many other pharmaceutical genetically-modified crops are already grown indoors or in inedible plants such as tobacco. The rice strains, made by Ventria Bioscience in Sacramento,...

Given the wide range of guesses concerning the placement category, many were braced for a surprise in terms of feedlots in-movement. The April placements and marketings were somewhat larger than the average guess. Compared to last week slaughter and feeder cows, and bulls sold $1-2 higher at Torrington Livestock. Compared to last week slaughter cows sold $2-$4 higher, slaughter bulls steady to $2 higher, and feeders not well tested at Billings (Mont. To submit your comment you must enter...

By Sharon Durham May 17, 2007 WASHINGTON, May 17 Six individual and team awards were presented today to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists for "Excellence in Technology Transfer" by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC), a nationwide network of more than 700 federal laboratories. By Sharon Durham May 17, 2007 WASHINGTON, May 17 Six individual and team awards were presented today to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists for "Excellence in...