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Buchanan named NDSU associate dean

By Agweek Wire Reports , May 07, 2012

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Burger King promises to use cage-free eggs, pork

By Agweek wire reports , April 30, 2012

Watch out of freezing temperatures

Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University Extension Service climatologist, warned farmers about planting too early. He says that while Iowa temperatures are breaking 1936 Dust Bowl records lately, farmers there should expect a freeze. He expects warm temperatures into this week then the weather could change. He notes that here has been only one year out of the past 100 when farmers could have planted on March 15 and everything would have been fine. One chance in a hundred is tough odds. That one year was 1946.

By Sue Martin , March 26, 2012

Liberty for hens?

MODESTO, Calif. — Thank you for your reporting on the United Egg Producers-Humane Society of the United States deal (Agweek, Feb. 20). The focus on Amon Baer is understandable, and I appreciate the other side being profiled as well. It is undeniable that the public and the egg-consuming public are at two minds on the welfare of egg laying hens on the farm.

By Eric Benson , March 05, 2012

Who are the Baers?

The Baer brothers are major players in a shrinking livestock sector in the Red River Valley region.

By Mikkel Pates , February 20, 2012

UEP defends deal with HSUS

Will Wal-Mart-style marketing be the reason if a proposed standard on laying egg cages becomes federal law, and part of the farm bill? Gene Gregory, president and CEO of United Egg Producers, says yes, eggs are a commodity and large producers that sell to big customers such as Wal-Mart need to move across state lines without a patchwork of rules.

By Mikkel Pates , February 20, 2012

Livestock Liberty?

LAKE PARK, Minn. — Amon Baer has one thing to say about amendments to the 2012 farm bill where Congress would dictate exactly — to the square inch — how big his egg laying cages must be. It is part of a deal brokered by the United Egg Producers leaders and the Humane Society of the United States, ostensibly to prevent state-by-state laws that undermine the egg industry. “Kill it,” Baer says of the proposed law.

By Mikkel Pates , February 20, 2012

AFBF ends support for direct payments

Delegates to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Honolulu ended their support for the $5 billion annual direct payments program that crop farmers get whether prices are high or low on Jan. 10, but the new policy they passed reflected continued differences between regions and commodities that will make it difficult for the nation’s largest general farm group to develop policy on a new farm bill.

By Jerry Hagstrom , January 16, 2012

McDonald's drops Minnesota-based egg supplier over cruelty charges

McDonald's has dropped a Minnesota-based egg supplier after an animal rights group released an undercover video of operations at the egg producer's farms in three states. The video by Mercy for Animals shows what it calls animal cruelty including a worker swinging a bird around by its feet.

By Steve Karnowski , November 18, 2011

6 salmonella cases linked to eggs from Minnesota farm

ST. PAUL, Minn. — At least six people have gotten sick from salmonella linked to organic eggs from a Minnesota farm that were sold in three states, agriculture and health officials said.

October 20, 2011

Groups differ on hen cage legislation

WASHINGTON — An international farm animal welfare group said a recent agreement between the Humane Society of the United States and the United Egg Producers to work toward federal legislation requiring larger cages for egg laying hens would bring the U.S. broadly in line with the European Union position, while the National Pork Producers Council expressed alarm at the agreement.

By Jerry Hagstrom , July 18, 2011

FDA finds salmonella during egg farm inspections

WASHINGTON — A series of Food and Drug Administration inspections at the nation’s largest egg farms has found at least one operation contaminated with salmonella.

By Mary Clare Jalonick , February 02, 2011

Maine egg farms come up clean in salmonella tests

AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine egg producers have come up clean in testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for dangerous salmonella.

December 16, 2010

FDA says Iowa egg farm can resume shell egg sales

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it will allow an Iowa egg farm linked to a widespread salmonella outbreak to resume selling its shell eggs to consumers.

By Mary Clare Jalonick , November 30, 2010

Montana egg plant plans expansion

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Montana Eggs LLC is planning an expansion of its plant on the northwestern edge of Great Falls so eggs produced by area Hutterite colonies be washed and graded at a USDA-certified facility.

November 16, 2010