The US Supreme Court has announced its decision to uphold California’s Proposition 12, the ballot initiative that requires pork sold in the state to be raised under strict guidelines. Approv...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/scotus-rejects-challenge-of-californias-prop-12/
Helping members of Congress better understand the cattle industry is one part of the job for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. CEO Colin Woodall says that means knowing which memb...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/helping-lawmakers-better-understand-the-cattle-industry/
Egg producers in Utah follow Michigan as the latest state to take a proactive approach in crafting cage-free legislation. Senator Scott Sandall, a farmer and rancher himself, says producers ...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/utah-pledges-to-be-cage-free-by-2025/
Thirty years ago I was a 28-year farm broadcaster covering the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa when a women in a pig costume shoved a whipped cream pie in the face of Iowa’s Pork Queen in a...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/two-cents/know-thine-enemy/
Commentary. While the 2020 election brought about what could mean significant change for ag interests in Washington, D.C., there is something else we have not been talking much about in farm...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/two-cents/animal-rights-policy-absent-in-recent-election/
Anti-animal agriculture activists now want Wisconsin’s Governor and the USDA to shut down mink producers to slow the spread of coronavirus. Scott Beckstead is a former Idaho mink producer ...
The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Pork Producers Council have filed a lawsuit against the State of California. Travis Cushman with AFBF tells Brownfield the lawsuit fi...
Commentary. Cattle prices dropped like a rock following the August 9 fire at the Tyson plant near Holcomb, Kansas. The plant processed about 6,000 head of fed cattle per day, which equates...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/two-cents/accountability-in-cattle-country/
There’s been another flare-up in the long-simmering feud between the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM). It began last week w...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/another-flare-up-in-the-feud-between-ncba-and-ocm/
A long-simmering feud between the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and other organizations flared up again this week after the Organization of Competitive Markets published a BLOG entit...
Colin Woodall, the new CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), has written an OPINION PIECE entitled “Smear Campaigns” in which he responds to recent accusations made ag...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/rural-issues/ncba-ceo-colin-woodall-responds-to-ocms-charges/
The Animal Ag Alliance is frustrated animal rights activists continue to target states that have a poor understanding of modern agriculture. Hannah Thompson-Weeman with the Alliance says ac...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/animal-ag-alliance-frustrated-with-activist-agenda/
Oregon has joined others on the West Coast that require all eggs sold in the state come from cage-free facilities. The bill signed into law Monday mirrors legislation in California and Was...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/oregon-passes-cage-free-egg-law/
The new chairman of the Missouri Farmers Care Coalition says there remains a need to fight extremist groups that go after production agriculture, like the Humane Society of the U.S., “They c...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/marshall-to-chair-mo-farmers-care/
California voters will decide next week on an initiative that would mandate larger, cage-free spaces for pigs, veal calves and egg-laying hens. Proposition 12 builds on the Prop 2 initiative...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/california-to-vote-on-tougher-animal-housing-rules/
Commentary. I believe that an adult human has every right to decide what they want to eat if they can afford it. If they don’t want to eat meat, that is a choice they should be able to ma...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/two-cents/employer-edict-dont-eat-meat/
The Prevent Cruelty California campaign that is pushing for larger space requirements for laying hens, veal calves and breeding hogs will be added to California’s November ballot. If voted...
Commentary. Every day rural communities are targeted by anti-agriculture groups. The attacks are usually subtle. Groups like Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), Waterkeepers and PETA do...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/two-cents/fact-check-church-newsletter/
The Missouri Cattlemen’s Association is happy about the passage of a bill in the Missouri House that requires all animal care training materials for law enforcement to be certified by the st...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/missouri-cattlemen-happy-law-enforcement-training-bill/
A federal court has ruled the National Pork Board stop payments to the National Pork Producers Council for trademarks including “Pork. The Other White Meat.” In 2006, the National Pork...
https://www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/payments-pork-trademarks-end/