The National Chicken Council (NCC) this week expressed deep concern about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest Agriculture Marketing Service rule, “Inclusive Competition and Market Integrity Under the Packers and Stockyards Act.”

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President Biden on Thursday, during his annual State of the Union address, blamed corporations for rises in food prices. However, U.S. government data say otherwise.

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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump this week swept nearly every state voting in the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections. As a result, candidate Nikki Haley dropped out of the presidential race.

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The House this week passed a six-bill “minibus” spending package, funding various agencies including the Department of Agriculture (USDA) through FY2024.

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U.S. Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) earlier this week led a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan urging the agency to withdraw a proposed rule covering wastewater discharged by meat and poultry processors. Nine of their Senate Republican colleagues and 17 of their House Republican colleagues also joined the letter.

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to enforce a new rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions, should the companies deem the information “material” to investors.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will exclude current commercial vaccine subtypes of Salmonella confirmed in FSIS raw poultry samples from the calculation used to categorize establishments under the raw poultry Salmonella performance standards. Effective April 1, 2024, the announcement was made in FSIS’s Constituent Update.

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Camryn Wilder, Texas A&M University, was awarded the Frank Perdue Scholarship Student of the Year during the USPOULTRY Foundation’s College Student Career Program, held in conjunction with the 2024 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE).

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