http://brownfieldagnews.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:02:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en North Platte, Nebraska seedstock producer Bill Rishel has put pencil to paper on the proposed GIPSA rule on marketing contracts—and he doesn’t like what he sees.  Rishel figures, if enacted, the rule would have a very negative financial impact on both him and his customers. AUDIO: Bill Rishel (5 min MP3) http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/31/gipsa-proposal-concerns-seedstock-producer/ At the Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver, members of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board have voted 62-30 to disapprove of the recommendation from the Cattlemen’s Beef Board Executive Committee that the Federation of State Beef Councils be separated from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. That decision followed earlier action by directors ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/31/cbb-members-reject-separation-recommendation/ Somewhat lost in the all of the discussions about the beef checkoff is the fact that cattlemen are having one their best summers in some time.  Prices are at profitable levels and ample rainfall across much of the U.S. has been great for pastures.  Another bright spot has been beef ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/31/beef-exports-are-a-bright-spot/ It doesn’t appear that legislation in Congress to limit antibiotics use is going anywhere in 2010. But NCBA chief veterinarian Dr. Elizabeth Parker says proponents of the measure aren’t going away.  And Parker says she is just as concerned with recent moves by the FDA to get more involved in ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/31/ncba-watching-congress-fda-on-antibiotics/ Addressing the forum of the Federation of State Beef Councils on Friday, the CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Forrest Roberts, talked about the current acrimony in the cattle industry and urged attendees to pull together.  He also assured the cattlemen that all concerns arising from the compliance review ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/31/ncba-ceo-gives-emotional-speech/ If you’re fascinated by the internal workings of ag organizations, then Friday’s events at the Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver would have been right up your alley.  Two big meetings were on the agenda—a forum of the Federation of State Beef Councils and a Cattlemen’s Beef Board Update Session.  ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/30/cattlemen-work-to-move-past-disputes/ Several companies have been ordered to stop selling and distributing herbicide because of a batch the EPA believes is responsible for damaging eight-thousand acres of soybeans in northeast Kansas. Samples indicated the herbicide - Warthog 2 EC - was tainted with another herbicide, Dicamba, which is used to combat broadleaf ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/30/epa-stop-sell-orders-on-tainted-herbicide/ Land O’Lakes Foundation has contributed $15,000 toward the creation of the Central Wisconsin Agribusiness Innovation Center (CWAIC), a multi-purpose facility that will serve as a business incubator for emerging companies in agribusiness, renewable energy, biotechnology, food processing and related industries. Scheduled for construction in early 2011, the CWAIC building will contain ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/30/land-olakes-contributes-to-agribusiness-center/ The Preliminary Index of Prices Received by Farmers in July was 3.6 percent higher than June. The National Ag Statistics Service says the Crop Index increased 4.1 percent and the Livestock Index was 1.6 percent higher than a month ago. Producers were paid more for corn, wheat, milk and lettuce, ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/30/farming-a-little-more-profitable-in-july/ USDA is looking at changing the rules regarding the use of “natural” on the labeling of chicken. Currently if chicken is not flavored artificially or preserved with chemicals it can be labeled as “natural”. But some processors and others say that still allows for it to be injected with water ... http://brownfieldagnews.com/2010/07/30/what-constitutes-natural-chicken/