Wholesale broiler prices are expected to be “relatively stable” during the end of 2012 and into 2013, despite higher year-over-year production during fourth quarter this year and higher cold storage stocks for the end of 2012, according to the “Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook” report this week from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).
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In a December 20 letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Ranking Member Pat Roberts (R-KS), House Agriculture Committee Chair Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Collin Peterson (R-MN), the National Chicken Council, and other groups requested again that USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres be reduced from the current level of 32 million acres to 25 million acres.
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Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement continued earlier this month for the 11 participating countries, including the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and Canada and Mexico who joined the talks for the first time.
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Although overall progress has been achieved during the first year of the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Plan, advancement on the poultry and meat export certification effort has not been as rapid as anticipated, according to the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council’s first progress report.
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In a surprise about-face, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn an order demanding that West Virginia poultry grower Lois Alt obtain a Clean Water Act discharge permit for stormwater runoff from her farmyard or face up to $37,500 per day in penalties, according to a presse release from the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF).
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