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10 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- A new complaint filed with USDA this week alleges major meatpacking companies have discriminated against minority workers by not taking all adequate steps to protect them during the COVID-19 pandemic.Food Chain Workers Alliance, Rural Community Workers Alliance, HEAL Food Alliance, American Friends Service Committee -- Iowa, Idaho Or...
9 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- After attention and lobbying from livestock groups, USDA on Wednesday announced the first major foot-and-mouth vaccine purchase to store in the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank.USDA is spending $27.1 million with two animal health companies, Biogenesis Bago and Boehringer Ingelheim. In a news release, Boehr...
9 Jul 2020
OMAHA (DTN) -- Reflecting that COVID-19 can strike anyone almost anywhere, a spokesperson for the American Farm Bureau Federation shared news Wednesday that the group's national president, Georgia farmer Zippy Duvall, had tested positive for COVID-19.Duvall was experiencing fever and cough systems when he was tested. "He is at home in quarantine an...
9 Jul 2020
Remember in years past when there were only one or two things we were really monitoring for the cattle market? Wouldn't it be pleasant to only worry about beef exports or to only anxiously watch slaughter data? Unfortunately, in today's current cattle market, there's not a subject that doesn't need tracking.Much like the rest of you, our lives are ...
8 Jul 2020
Earl Evans has only missed the summer-spanning custom wheat harvesting run twice in the last 73 years.He started his nearly consecutive streak on the south-to-north route when he returned to the United States in 1945 after serving in the Pacific Theater at the end of World War II.He missed the run in both 1952 and 1953 while serving in the Korean W...