Groups Urge Congress to Aid Ailing Pork Industry
US - “There are many challenges facing the economic viability of the pork sector including higher input costs for feed and energy, an over-abundance of supply in the domestic market, weakening demand and...

CME: Ethanol Uses as Much Corn as Livestock
US - According to Steve Meyer and Len Steiner, the US corn harvest continues to track well below year ago and five year average levels, raising concerns not just about current harvest output potential...

Chinese Swine Team Increases Interest in US DDGS
US - A team of nine large-scale hog producers traveled to the United States from China this week to gain practical experience and expand their knowledge in order to improve production efficiency and reduce...

EPA Told Changes to RFS Could Affect Ag Prices
US - Comments submitted on Friday (25 September) to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the American Meat Institute (AMI), National Turkey Federation, National Chicken Council and FarmEcon LLC...

US DDGS Quality Impresses Major Korean End-users
US - A team of grains industry professionals traveled from Korea to the United States on a mission to visit suppliers of distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS), a co-product of US ethanol produ...

NPPC Asks USDA to Save US Pork Industry
US - Asking for help to save the US pork industry and thousands of jobs, the National Pork Producers Council yesterday urged the US Department of Agriculture to lend assistance to US pork producers to...

Chinese Swine Producers Receive Training on US DDGS
US - Chinese pig producers have received training from the US Grains Council aimed at increasing the use of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS).

US Livestock Industry Under Stress
US - At a time when many crop producers continue to show profits, even with sharply higher input costs, the entire livestock industry is under extreme financial stress, according to the Iowa Pork Industry...

No Antibiotic Residues Detected in DDGS
US - Phibro's Ethanol Performance Group has reported no detection of virginiamycin residues in more than 40 samples of distillers' grains (DDGS).

Carbon Market Opportunities for Agriculture
Carbon credits generated by agriculture are a relatively new commodity according to Dr Dave Beede and Dr Wendy Powers of Michigan State University in the latest MSU Pork Quarterly.

Report Evaluates Intelligent Use of Manure
US - The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate the role of animal manure as a source of fertilizer, and its other uses.

Sen Webb Wants Study Done of Ethanol Blend Impact
US - Senator Jim Webb (D-VA), along with 20 other Senators, wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Tuesday to request more comprehensive testing on ethanol prior to raising the ratio that can be mixed...

Nineteen Digesters Operating on US Pig Farms
US - As of February 2009, AgSTAR estimates that there are 125 farm-scale digesters operating at commercial livestock farms in the United States. Six of these installations are systems that provide manure...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Weekly Outlook: Crop Markets React to Swine Flu
US - In the first trading session following the announcement of incidences of swine flu in Mexico and the United States, corn, soybean, and wheat futures declined sharply, writes Darrel Good, Extension...

Biofuel Byproducts Both Economic and Environmental
US - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists of the USDA have found environmentally and economically sound uses for the byproducts of biofuel production.

NPPC Insists that Ethanol Expansion be Studied
US - With US pork producers still smarting because of high feed-grain prices, the National Pork Producers Council has insisted that the Obama administration study the economic impact of an expansion of...

Weekly Outlook: Pressure for 2009 Growing Season
US - The USDA’s 31 March Prospective Plantings report revealed producer intentions to reduce corn acreage and to marginally increase soybean acreage in 2009. That report pointed to the potential...

Joules Before Swine
US - Family pig farms used to be as much a part of the old South as homemade sausage and red-eye gravy. What's left of swine farming in the Southeast today, however, has gone corporate — generating larger...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Weekly Outlook: Corn Consumption
US - The USDA’s updated projections of consumption of US corn during the current marketing year serve as a reminder of the central role that market size will play over the next several months, writes Darrel...

Market Preview: Patience – Spring is Coming!
US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.

NPPC Attacks Ethanol Support Measures
US - The National Pork Producers Council is to oppose US government moves giving extra support to the production of ethanol from corn and to ethanol producers.

All Star Lineup Wows NFU Convention
US - Attendees to the 2009 National Farmers Union Convention heard from an outstanding line-up of policy makers, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary...

Soybean Oil Reduces Carbon Footprint in Swine Barns
US - One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows.