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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index increased 1.2% in March. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.5% before seasonal adjustment. Increases in the indexes for gasoline, shelter, and food were the largest contributors to the seasonally adjusted all items increase ...

New research shows that greenhouse gas emissions on farms could rise if more U.S. food companies require feed for their livestock and poultry be free from genetically modified ingredients. The report said grain elevator and feed mill product handling and production requirements would be greater, and the price of meat, milk and eggs for consumers could increase ...

2021 was a record year for U.S. meat and poultry production. So, what's the expectation when it comes to production in 2022? "We expect total meat production to be down, just fractionally at .2%, 106.6 billion pounds.  This should be the first decline since 2014." ...

USDA's January WASDE report had a modest change for the meat production outlook. "For 2022, in terms of beef production...increased our beef production forecast by 160 million pounds," said World Ag Outlook Boar Chair Mark Jekanowski ...

The Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is soliciting nominations for membership to the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection. USDA expects to appoint committee members in 2022. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, "attracting and appointing individuals from diverse perspectives and expertise to serve on will be essential to accomplishing ou

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection service seeks proposals from poultry processors for pilot projects that will test different control strategies for Salmonella contamination. FSIS announced Friday participating processors will experiment with new or existing pathogen control and measurement strategies and share data collected during the pilots with FSIS ...

The USDA says Ag exports this fiscal year will hit $175.5 billion.  "It's a little bit lower, $2 billion less than the previous estimate for this year." That estimate was made back in August. But, according to USDA Chief Economist Seth Meyer, $175.5 bi ...

The total value of agriculture exports may reach an all-time high in fiscal year 2022. ERS said higher shipments of major categories of commodities, including grains and feeds, oilseeds, and livestock, poultry, and dairy products, are primarily driving the increase ...

The USDA is providing additional time for livestock and poultry producers to apply for the Pandemic Livestock Indemnity Program, or PLIP. Producers who suffered losses during the pandemic due to insufficient access to processing may now apply for assistance for those losses and the cost of depopulation and disposal of the animals through October 12th, 2021, rather than the original deadline of Se

Last week, the USDA rolled out a few updates to the Department's Coronavirus Food Assistance Program 2 for producers of poultry and hogs. "Contract growers, helping them realize an additional stream of income to assist them getting through those economic impacts of the pandemic," said FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux ...