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Indeed, the United States Department of Agriculture USDA reported the price of a gallon of milk had increased twice as much as that for a gallon of gasoline during the previous 12 months. U.S. milk prices soared from a 23-year low in late 2002 and early '03 to dizzying heights...
Food companies can't be blamed for jumping on the organic bandwagon. Companies can, however, be blamed for claiming that their products are organic or are free of antibiotics when they aren't. In late April, a federal appeals court ruled that Tyson Foods must cease advertising its chicken...
Commodities prices have so far responded pretty much as expected to the USDA's Prospective Plantings report, issued March 31. Corn prices are up, soybeans are way down. That's potentially bad news for meat processors such as Tyson Foods and companies such as Archer Daniels Midland that make...
Commodities prices have so far responded pretty much as expected to the USDA's Prospective Plantings report, issued March 31. Corn prices are up, soybeans are way down. That's potentially bad news for meat processors such as Tyson Foods and companies such as Archer Daniels Midland that make...
Grocers including Whole Foods Market, Kroger and Stop & Shop have had to hire third party verifiers to root out produce that contains pesticide residue despite the green-and-white USDA Organic seal, the CEO of product tester Scientific Certification Services says. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Earlier last month, Home Depot introduced a new "Eco Options" label meant to identify certain products as the environmentally responsible choice. Timberland, producer of footwear and apparel, has introduced a label that resembles the nutrition panel on U.S. food products -- except it displays information on products' environmental impact. What's...
Most Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors and accidents in the home hurt over 6.5 million people, according to the Healthy Homes Partnership, a collaboration of the United States Department of Agriculture USDA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD and the University of Wisconsin-Extension. Recognizing these...
The rising influx of Canadian hogs has stirred up considerable controversy in the industry. Ten years ago, 44 percent of imported Canadian hogs were feeder pigs, versus almost 70 percent in 2004, with slaughter hogs making up the balance in each case. This article addresses the economic factors that could...
Due to uncertainties as to the length of the bans on trade in ruminants and ruminant products because of the discovery of BSE in the United States and Canada, this article forecasts for 2005 assuming a continuation of policies currently in place, including the recently announced minimal risk rule. Subsequent...
This report reviews the state of dairy market for the year 2004. It reports that the year 2004 has been incredible for the U.S. dairy industry. Milk production was forecasted to be a record or near record, commercial use also hit new highs, and prices were extremely volatile throughout the...
This report provides forecasts on the beef trade in U.S. Larger supplies of red meat and poultry are expected to result in record-high per capita meat consumption in 2005. Beef production in 2005 is expected to be about 1 percent above this year, despite continuing declines in numbers of animals...
About 8 percent of the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. in 2004 will originate in Canada - many more than 10 years ago. Canadian hogs have flowed into the U.S., in response to significant structural changes in the U.S. pork industry concurrent with policy changes in Canada. This, combined with...
This report focuses on hog prices and production for the year 2004. The report informs that hog prices this year have been driven largely by demand factors: very strong domestic demand for animal proteins, relatively high domestic beef prices, and strong export demand, particularly from Mexico and Taiwan. The same...
This report reviews the beef production market until the end of the third quarter of 2004 and states that the beef production in 2004 is expected to decline nearly 7 percent from a year earlier. The decline is sharper than earlier expected due to a slower pace of cattle placements...
The cattle report indicated that inventories continued the decline that began in 1996. The number of beef heifers to be retained for addition to the breeding herd was up 4 percent from a year earlier. Most likely, they will be retained from this year's calf crop. If so, they will...
The United States is a country with a vast forest resource, comprising about one-third of its total land area (or about 3 million square kilometers). The wide usage of wood generates a large volume of wood waste. Currently, nearly 63 million metric tons of this material is generated in the...
This article reviews and reports the pork production during the month of July 2004. Although returns to pork producers have been favorable, the June Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report indicated that producers remain cautious in their future production plans and reduced the breeding hog inventory. However, since the survey, returns...
