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September 2008
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Cow and gown
A partnership in Kentucky brings locally grown beef to university students
What's the difference?
When it comes to agriculture and food policy, it's still difficult to tell the presidential candidates apart
Down so low
But is the price of corn low enough?
Ordering in
The foodservice market continues its slow decline

MEAT&POULTRY Beyond the Headline Archives
Pilgrim's prognosis
Analyst weighs in on the future of the troubled poultry giant
    October 3, 2008
Are they truly willing to pay?
COOL's supporters say giving U.S. consumers what they're willing to pay for is at the heart of the controversial labeling scheme - but is that true?
    October 3, 2008
New territory
Even the union is perplexed by the Muslim prayer-break issue
    September 26, 2008
Loopholing through COOL
Activist agriculture groups say packers intend to violate spirit of country-of-origin labeling regulation, set to take effect on Sept. 30
    September 26, 2008
Beef: tough times ahead
Packers squeezed in a vise between supply and demand, says analyst
    September 26, 2008
The long and the short of it
FDA commissioner says tracing pathogen outbreaks to food sources still takes too long and that government needs better engagement with industry.
    September 26, 2008
What goes up
Hog prices return to earth after a spike
    September 12, 2008
COFCO's significant step
The huge Chinese company's investment in Smithfield Foods establishes a foothold in the U.S. industry
    September 12, 2008
Russian ballet
The U.S.'s poultry trade with Russia dances on a political and diplomatic stage
    September 12, 2008
Smithfield, Kraft: Do not send in the clones
New survey shows significant food industry opposition to foods derived from cloned animals
    September 5, 2008
COOLing the divisions
A meeting to address Country of Origin Labeling brings some industry antagonists together
    September 5, 2008
More, not less
Counter to USDA, NCBA says consumers show no sign of a decline in interest in nutrition labels
    September 5, 2008
Reforming an "essential" of business
E-Verify proposals draw support and fire from the meat industry
    August 29, 2008
The boom after the boom
A new report predicts rosy days ahead for global meat and agribusiness.
    August 29, 2008
The Canadian watershed
Maple Leaf Foods' Listeria outbreak will bring changes north of the border.
    August 29, 2008
They're on Candid Camera
In the wake of Hallmark-Westland, video surveillance becomes an element in the American Humane Certified program.
    August 29, 2008
Bronze in Beijing, gold everywhere else
There's been a negative Olympic effect on U.S. pork exports to China, but pork is booming for the U.S. in most other markets
    August 15, 2008
Ignoring the facts
A new USDA study indicates consumers are using nutrition-information panels less and less
    August 15, 2008
Optimism in the ruins
The collapse of the Doha Round of WTO talks isn't necessarily bad news for U.S. meat exports
    August 11, 2008
Bad - but not that bad
The South's heat wave is killing chickens by the hundreds but not the millions.
    August 8, 2008
Animal welfare from the middle
Revisions to a Canadian animal-welfare law show a different way to control abuse.
    August 8, 2008
Blackshirts and a constitutional crisis
Is the federal government going to war against employers? Or is just one employer to blame?
    August 1, 2008
NR transparency — it's a good thing
Bill Marler argues the industry has a lot to gain if inspection records are made public
    August 1, 2008
A Kansas Yankee in Somerset Counties
A meat industry anthropologist roughs it in the English industry
    August 1, 2008
Weeding the green
Too much "green" advertising is both ineffective and suspicious
    July 25, 2008
More humane, please
A new supermarket survey finds one leader in retailing humanely farmed meat products -- and a lot of distant followers
    July 25, 2008
The Pew on the Hill
Three months after its release, the Pew study on animal agriculture still influences discussion in Washington
    July 25, 2008
Country-fried relief
Tyson's new partnership with Country Music Television will benefit America's Second Harvest
    July 25, 2008
Get out...and stay out!
The Nebraska town where Hormel operates a plant wants to kick out illegal immigrants.
    July 18, 2008
Testing vs. surveillance
A plan in Canada to reduce incentive payments for BSE testing draws fire.
    July 18, 2008
A 75% shock
A leaked World Bank report that embarrasses the White House calculates ethanol's impact on global food prices
    July 11, 2008
Serious justice
Anti-acquisition advocates see reason to hope the JBS-Smithfield/National deal will be altered by the DOJ
    July 11, 2008
Welfare state
Animal-friendly hog production systems get attention in Canada and the U.S. following animal-abuse scandals
    July 11, 2008
Room for growth
Meat exports keep providing good news for the U.S. industry — but there's plenty of improvement still to be gained
    July 3, 2008
Don't blame Chinese food
High U.S. corn prices have little to do with growing meat and poultry consumption in China, say analysts
    July 3, 2008
Git yer red hots!
National Hot Dog Month is here
    July 3, 2008
"Sleazy" association
HSUS hints that Caviness Packing is connected with animal abuse at a New Mexico auction — but with no evidence.
    June 27, 2008
Profiting from "overreaction"
Wall Street gets bullish on Tyson shares.
    June 27, 2008
Iowa finally "a little like summer"
Sioux-Preme Packing forecasts a Midwestern recovery following devastating rain and floods.
    June 27, 2008
Little boxes, little boxes
A new problem: too few shipping containers. U.S. meat exporters are feeling the crunch
    June 20, 2008
Invading privacy and disrespecting religion too?
USDA loses a round in the animal I.D. battle
    June 20, 2008
Office culture cuisine
Hormel surveys the workplace and comes up with a new line of products
    June 20, 2008
Hi-Ho Silver?
The Farm Bureau ponders a federal silver bullet to shoot down skyrocketing commodity prices.
    June 13, 2008
Tight lips
No one wants to talk about what's gone wrong with South Korea and U.S. beef.
    June 13, 2008
To beta or not to beta
USDA learns a lesson in price reporting.
    June 6, 2008
When it rains, it hurts
Wet weather in the Midwest is just more bad news in an already awful crop year.
    June 6, 2008
Testing, testing
Once controversial, test-and-hold becomes AMI's latest cause with USDA.
    June 6, 2008
U.S. beef and human rights
Amnesty International gets involved in the South Korea beef deal
    May 30, 2008
Modified - but still "onerous"
The Farm Bill's COOL provisions will still be costly, but maybe the paperwork won't be so bad
    May 30, 2008
The nice rice
USDA approval of stabilized rice bran for use in processed products could mean big savings for processors
    May 30, 2008
A new mood
U.S. chicken looks like it'll be let back in to the E.U. Could U.S. beef be next?
    May 16, 2008
Out of step with "mainstream American values"?
The Pew report on animal agriculture meets with cheers and jeers.
    May 16, 2008
Crossing the line
U.S. pork has invaded Canada.
    May 16, 2008
They're not anti-meat issues
    May 16, 2008
Too little, too late?
AMI and NMA petition USDA to keep downers out of the meat supply.
    May 7, 2008
Still expensive — but not that expensive
Like other food prices, prices for organically grown foods, including meat and poultry, are going up, but just not as fast or as much.
    May 7, 2008
Seekers, meet searchers
Meat Industry CareerLink brings together industry job seekers and employers
    May 7, 2008
Drug war
Why Tyson will continue to fight for its "raised without antibiotics" label
    April 29, 2008
Loose lips
Drought is devastating Australia's meat industry, wheat production -- even the "ANZAC trees…" or is it?
    April 29, 2008
Excuses, excuses?
A new book criticizes the industry for its animal-handling but earns the wrath of vegetarians
    April 29, 2008