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After a year that saw persistently low prices for many agricultural products — exacerbated by the retaliatory tariffs imposed on U.S. goods — farmers are…
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The coalition behind a lawsuit challenging Missouri’s new meat-labeling law asked a federal judge this week to stop the state from enforcing it.
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A handful of companies — think Tyson and Perdue — all but control poultry production in the U.S. They’ll soon be joined by a retailer known more for...
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Consumers are buying more certified organic fruits and vegetables every year, and in the Midwest and Plains states, much of it is grown on small farms....
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Veterinarians and officials are hoping to keep a deadly foreign virus from infecting the American hog industry. African swine fever has been making its…
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Updated Aug. 2, 2018 — The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission did not have enough votes Aug. 1 to approve the poultry barns at issue. Another...
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When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, people can end up with infections that don’t respond to available medicines. Now Iowa State University,…
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Esperanza Yanez can spot a sick cow just by looking at it. “The head hangs down and they don’t eat,” said Yanez, who immigrated from Mexico two decades...
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Thirty-eight calves, between two and four months old, moo and kick at the dirt floor in a steel barn in Brush, Colorado. One by one, a handler leads...
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Beef cattle ranchers are getting wise to the science of genetics.