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No known recipes for chicken salad or turkey salad include glass fragments or hard silica. Hearing from customers who found those items in their salads caused Green Cuisine to recall of 36,854 pounds of chicken salad and turkey salad sold under the Trader Joe's name.
U.S. agricultural exports totaled $140.5 billion in fiscal year 2017, climbing nearly $10.9 billion from the previous year to the third-highest level on record, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Thursday. As it has done for well over 50 years, the U.S. agricultural sector once again posted an annual trade surplus, which reached $21.3 billion, up almost 30 percent from last year's $16.6 billion.
Nebraska Farm Bureau has selected former Nebraska Director of Agriculture Merlyn Carlson as the 2017 recipient of its highest honor, the Silver Eagle Award. The award will be presented to Carlson on Merlyn Carlson and his wife Janice raised their family on their ranch near Lodgepole, where they raised cattle.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service has released notice that they are delaying, for the third time, implementation of the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices rule. "The USDA's move this week should be seen for what it is: a clear attempt to let industrial agriculture interests usurp the legitimacy of the organic label," said OEFFA Policy Program Coordinator Amalie Lipstreu.
The long road to recovery for fire victims is just beginning to reveal itself, and for homeowners, farmers and landowners whose property has been affected by the fires, the Mendocino County Farm Bureau is providing an opportunity to receive assistance and information to help bring properties back to health and working order. A Post-Fire Agricultural and Rural Property Resource Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center.
The 2017 Farm Service Agency county committee elections began on Nov. 6, when ballots were mailed to eligible voters. The deadline to return the ballots to local FSA offices is Dec. 4. County committee members are an important component of the operations of FSA and provide a link between the agricultural community and USDA.
The GM Contamination Register database is run by Genewatch and Greenpeace and contains cases of genetically modified contamination dating from 1997. The authors of a 2014 paper , published in the International Journal of Food Contamination, analysed 400 or so cases in the database by crop and country.
Planet Home Lending announced the addition of Temporary Buydowns to its product portfolio, effective immediately. PHL will allow 2/1 buydowns at a rate of 2% for the first year and 1% for the second year.
Greene County has received less precipitation than normal this year, but when it has rained, it has been at the right times, officials say. According to a report by the University of Tennessee AgResearch & Education Center at Greeneville, the county has received 34.53 inches of rain or melted snowfall from Jan. 1 through Oct. 31. October saw slightly more rain than average for the month, accumulating 3.16 inches of rain compared to the average 2.08.
Jared Kushner's team turned over documents to special counsel in Russia investigation - Jared Kushner has turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel Robert Mueller as investigators have begun asking in witness interviews about Kushner's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, CNN has learned.
Jared Kushner's team turned over documents to special counsel in Russia investigation - Jared Kushner has turned over documents in recent weeks to special counsel Robert Mueller as investigators have begun asking in witness interviews about Kushner's role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, CNN has learned.
Purdue University is among 11 U.S. research institutions recently highlighted for their successful research programs funded by the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative . The recognition was included in a report released by the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation .
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientist nominee, Sam Clovis withdrew his name from consideration Wednesday amid revelations that he was among top officials on the Trump campaign who was aware of efforts by foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to broker a relationship between the campaign and Russian officials. Court documents unsealed Monday revealed that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in early October to making false statement to FBI investigators about his contacts with foreigners claiming to have high-level Russian connections.
A loan to grow crops, such as this field of soybeans, has resulted in a second federal indictment against a member of the Parden Farms family in Perkinston. Arizona Parden is accused of selling crops of soybeans mortgaged to the Farm Service Agency.
Urban Organics started an aquaponic operation growing certified organic leafy greens in 8,000 square feet in an old Hamm's beer brewery in 2011. Photo courtesy Urban Organics Pentair Group U.S. regulators appear poised to answer that long-debated question.
More than 10 months after President Donald Trump was sworn in, USDA is finally filling key cabinet positions including USDA deputy secretary. After months of rumblings, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tapped Stephen Censky for the post.
Eighty-two percent of agricultural lenders reported a decline in farm profitability in the last 12 months, according to a joint survey by the American Bankers Association and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation . Despite the continued decline, the survey of more than 580 agricultural lenders revealed that the agricultural loan approval rate is 84 percent.
Ketchikan Ready Mix and Quarry was presented the award by Regional Forester Beth Pendleton at the Tongass National Forest Forest Supervisor's Office in Ketchikan on September 19. Pictured from left, Beth Pendleton, Harold Enright, Tammy Carroll, Loren Enright, Morgan Enright, and Contracting Officer Mari Meiners. Ketchikan Ready Mix and Quarry has been named the USDA HUBZone Contractor of the Year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Acacia Diversified Holdings, Inc. , an emerging cannabis company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eufloria Medical of Tennessee, Inc. is pleased to announce that Eufloria has secured a processing, manufacturing and retail sales license in Tennessee. The acquisition of these licenses will allow Eufloria to conduct hemp-related business in Tennessee, as it moves forward in this new emerging hemp marketplace.
This past June, Maine legislators passed a law, An Act to Recognize Local Control Regarding Food Systems , which allows cities and towns in the state to adopt laws permitting farmers and other food producers within their borders to engage in a host of direct-to-consumer food sales. The law, intended to bolster local food economies in the state, allows Maine municipalities to "regulate by ordinance local food systems," and requires the state, in turn, to "recognize such ordinances."