These determinations are necessary measures for FSIS and American consumers to develop and maintain trust in imported meat, poultry, and egg products. FSIS also performs more intensive inspections on approximately 10% of shipments of meat, poultry, and egg products, including product examinations, mibrobiological analyses for pathogens such as E. suppliers? Only countries with equivalent food safety systems are allowed to ship meat, poultry, or egg products to the United States....

Food-miles are a great metaphor for looking at the localness of food, the contrast between local and global food, a way people can get an idea of where their food is coming from, said Rich Pirog, associate director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. Food-miles are a great metaphor for looking at the localness of food, the contrast between local and global food, a way people can get an idea of where their food is coming from, said Rich Pirog,...

Chicken legs, Zaslow added, have become even more important to chicken producers since soybean costs have skyrocketed as more farmers switch to corn to take advantage of record-high prices for the grain. Both soybean and corn are used to make animal feed. Faced with higher costs and lower revenue from breast meat, chicken legs have become a major factor in profitability for producers, he said. S facilities _ a move one analyst said could lower prices for chicken legs and pressure...

To avoid waste, many cattle producers feed alfalfa and clover hays on an every other day schedule and feed double the daily amount on these days. If 41 percent protein cottonseed meal sells for $270 per ton, 20 percent protein alfalfa hay has a value of $132 per ton based on the relative protein contents of both feed sources. Witnesses to this fact are the cattle producers who winter cow herds on properly harvested bermuda, fescue, fescue-clover, clover and small grains hays without any...

UK has estimated forage losses in Kentucky due to the freeze and the drought at $45 million. Keene said producers have numerous tools at their disposal to acquire hay and make it last, such as utilizing the Hay Hotline, storing hay properly and having hay tested. The Department maintains a permanent online hay directory that lists hay for sale by county, relative feed value, bale size and type. The early April freeze and the recent drought together have greatly reduced Kentucky s hay...