Last Wednesday, the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union announced a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract.
The NCBA says the ruling effectively ends “yet another R-CALF attack on the Beef Checkoff and prevents the activist attorneys from further diverting Checkoff and beef industry resources.”
Data from USDA’s Economic Research Service shows the number of U.S. farms continues a slow decline. After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of farms and ranches fell sharply through the early 1970s.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau against California’s Proposition 12.
It’s pollination time for California almond growers, and beekeepers are moving some 2.5 million honeybee colonies into California orchards to pollinate 1.3 million acres of almond trees.