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... Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:46 PM by Ken Anderson The USDA will conduct a Request for Referendum this month among eligible producers and importers of hogs, pork and pork products. The purpose is to determine if they want a referendum on the Pork...
...DES MOINES (AP) — Sen. Tom Harkin is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take action to protect producers and auction barns who haven’t received payment from the troubled Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant. In a letter to the USDA sent on...
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Earlier this week
...November 8, less than a month after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) contacted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) about Ned, an emaciated elephant “owned” by circus-trainer Lancelot Kollmann (a/k/a Lance Ramos), the agency...
...USDA zone for Fort Myers is? Is it 10b or 11 or whatever? Burt, Fort Myers The USDA Plant Hardiness Zones divide the United States and southern Canada into 11 areas based on a 10-degree Fahrenheit difference in the average annual minimum temperature....
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