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....

The multistate government partnership issued a report in September about the importance of environmental protections matching regional biofuel growth. But there is no denying the benefit to the average farmer with corn prices as high as they are, said Roger Richardson, state agriculture secretary, who himself grows 1,800 acres of corn on the Lower Shore. But demand for its production has soared nationwide, increasing so now one in five ears of corn is converted into biofuel. But incentives...

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...

The charges of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil spaced 10 feet apart along two miles of earthen dike allowed water to start dribbling into 2,500 acres of the Williamson River Delta. By spring, what used to be among the most productive land farmland in the region is expected to be flooded. It is part of a series of marshland restoration projects on the northern end of Upper Klamath Lake that will ultimately approach 20,000 acres. The restored marsh will provide 2,500 acres of refuge for...

The scenario has left beef producers with few options other than selling off parts of their herds for fear there will not be anything to feed them through winter, or jockeying to buy increasingly scarce hay elsewhere at higher prices. They have savaged hay crops and kept pastures from greening, forcing producers to tap hay stockpiles months earlier than usual. regions scorched by drought, cutting hay production by as much as 80 percent in Tennessee to 50 percent or more in Kentucky. The...