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The Washington State Department of Licensing has expanded its Agriculture Support Program.  DOL said the program will now provide payments to producers and transporters who purchased fuel for agricultural purposes between January 1st, 2024, and December 31st, 2024.  DOL add...

On February 7th, the International Longshoremen Association’s Wage Scale Committee unanimously approved a new six-year contract between the ILA and the U.S. Maritime Alliance.  The next step is a ratification vote on Tuesday February 25th by the ILA rank-and-file membership.  Assuming rank...

Calves are transported across the country on a regular basis, but 25% to 30% of those cattle coming into feedyards are mismanaged once they reach their final destination, that according to Kansas State professor of veterinary medicine, Dan Thomson...

The National Pork Producers Council is joining with other livestock industries asking for a delay of implementation, or a waiver of the new Electronic Logging Devices rule that is scheduled to go into effect December 18th.   NPPC President Ken Maschhoff says that livestock haulers have, “have a moral obligation to care for the animals they’re hauling regardless of what some bureaucratic rule says.