food safety

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service fills a few leadership positions. The all wheat yield is projected at 46.8 bushels per acre, up slightly from 2017/18.

U.S. pork exports to Colombia were up and U.S. beef exports increased in volume and value. Brazil may remove a tariff on ethanol imports from the U.S.

Bankers are expecting an increase in farm loan foreclosures. Arkansas Ag officials are being sued due to a proposed ban on a weed killer linked to widespread crop damage. an increase in farm loan foreclosures is expected by some bankers. Cargill is expanding, signed an agreement to buy Diamond V.

**The US has suspended all imports of fresh beef from Brazil amid continued food safety concerns. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says ensuring the safety of the nation’s food supply is a top priority. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has been inspecting 100% of all meat products exported to the US from Brazil following a food-safety probe earlier this year...

**A growing concern among U.S. lawmakers and food manufacturers that they’ll see the price of sugar go up if the sugar refining industry gets what it’s demanding from Mexico. A group of 51 House members has signed onto a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross not to go through with some proposals like raising the floor price for raw and refined sugar and funneling some raw sugar imports directly

**China, the world’s largest meat-producing and consuming country, is overhauling its food safety system to assure 1.3 billion people they won’t be harmed by the chicken, beef and pork they eat. Proving to be a bigger undertaking than expected, China is now turning to the agency held up as the gold standard for food safety: USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service...

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is pleased with new funding levels for the Food Safety Modernization Act, though it remains concerned that the money stays available amid turnovers on Capitol Hill and in the White House...

Beekeepers have filed a lawsuit against the EPA for not regulating seeds treated with neonicotinoids. The group of commercial beekeepers, growers and environmental activist claim neonics should be regulated as pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act...

Canada’s Agriculture and AgriFood Minister will visit Washington D.C. Thursday. Lawrence MacAulay will make his first visit to the U.S. capitol city to meet with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. MacAulay and Vilsack are expected to discuss a range of issues, including implementation of the repeal of country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork and USDA’s statement that the Food Safety and Inspection Se

The Doha round is arguably dead, and the United States has made clear it's going to argue that. After 14 years of trying to come together, the members of the World Trade Organization agreed to a declaration on Saturday that acknowledged many wanted to stick to the Doha framework while others did not...