Bel Brands USA to build cheese plant in SD
BROOKINGS, S.D. — The South Dakota city of Brookings is getting a $100 million cheese plant that could eventually employ up to 400 workers.
What do readers think?
Agweek is preparing a cover story on the future on agriculture on the Northern Plains. We’re getting input from various ag officials, including commodity and farm group leaders. But we want to include comments from readers, too.
That one paycheck
TOWNER, N.D. — The past year had its ups and downs, but luckily for the family, one of the ups has been the cattle market. Having just sold last year’s calves and having close to 20 years of cattle markets to compare it to since I came back to the ranch after college, I can say I much prefer selling into an up market than a down market.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — First lady Michelle Obama and Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack visited an elementary school in Virginia on Jan. 25 to unveil new school meal standards. It is popular with the fruit and vegetable industries, but the potato and dairy industries were worried that it would reduce consumption of their products.
New wolf plan in place
The executive director of the Minnesota State Cattlemen’s Association is pleased that protection of the state’s gray wolf population has shifted from the federal government to the state Department of Natural Resources.
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Growing better calves: Research explores improving species
Noah Litherland feeds his research subjects — young dairy calves — twice a day as they sit in their small hutches outside the dairy farm on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus.
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LA QUINTA, Calif. — Dairy product sales will grow faster than other foods in developing countries in the coming years, and PepsiCo Inc. intends to be a part of that growth, a key PepsiCo executive told members of the International Dairy Foods Association Jan. 15 at the 2012 Dairy Forum in La Quinta, Calif.
Dairy industry eyes foreign markets
LA QUINTA, Calif. — Opportunities abound in countries with growing populations and growing incomes that cannot supply all their own food, but only if suppliers learn how to do business there, experts told attendees at the recent 2012 International Dairy Foods Association Dairy Forum.
Obama proposes reorganizing agencies
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s proposal to reorganize six agencies that promote business and trade and possibly reorganize food safety agencies has not been well received in agriculture or consumer advocacy circles.
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The Supreme Court has blocked a California law that would require euthanizing downed livestock at federally inspected slaughterhouses to keep the meat out of the nation's food system.
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Two being inducted into N.D. Agriculture Hall of Fame
Double-deck trailer ban in safety bill
WASHINGTON — Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation recently included the double-deck trailer ban in S. 1950, the Commercial Motor Vehicle Enhancement Act of 2011.
Rural Meat Market
STREETER, N.D. — Clyde Reister has built a meat processing and catering business that involves his extended family, and has found success on the home farm.
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J. Dudley Butler, the controversial administrator of the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, announced Thursday that he is resigning.
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