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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
March 20, 2013
The Senate adopted an amendment to a spending bill that would avoid furloughing U.S. meat inspectors as part of budget cuts, lowering the risk of disrupting plants run by companies including Tyson Foods Co.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
March 20, 2013
Above-average rainfall is needed in the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains to replenish soil parched from last year’s drought and ensure adequate harvests, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center said.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
August 10, 2012
The grass in Melvin Korte’s 280 acres of pasture in northern Missouri is dead, burnt away in the worst drought in the Corn Belt in more than a half-century. Now he’s doing all he can to keep his herd of 63 cattle alive.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
July 25, 2012
U.S. consumers may pay 3 percent to 4 percent more for food next year, as the effects of the country’s worst drought since the 1950s works its way onto supermarket shelves, the Department of Agriculture said today in its first forecast for 2013.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2012
A change in hours at CME Group means some USDA reports would hit during active sessions, and the agency is re-considering its release schedule.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
April 24, 2012
The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years has been found in a dairy cow in central California, officials say.
