In the 25 years I have been representing and defending the food industry, I have witnessed some spectacular industry accomplishments and a few notable failures.

Commodities and the products of agricultural commodities acquired under this contract must be a product of the United States.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture published an assessment report conducted by Kansas State University to assess market information provided by the Cattle Contracts Library Pilot Program.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets funds projects that support market development for small Vermont farms and food businesses and promote development of Vermont value-added products.

North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services funds projects that expand on-farm cold storage and packaging capacity, implement post-harvest handling, provide refrigerated trucks and expand aggregator facilities.

The USDA plans to purchase meat and fish products for the National School Lunch Program and other federal food nutrition assistance programs.

The presence of a federally declared weather or environmental disaster increases the chance of reduced slaughter volumes and the size of the reduction, as well as the probability of plants shutting down.

USDA's AMS hosts a webinar on April 9 at noon Eastern for livestock producers, poultry growers and regulated entities.

Using RFSI funding, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry funds projects that will achieve on-farm facility infrastructure improvements to resolve middle-of-the-supply-chain challenges for Maine agricultural products and support processing, packaging, storage and distribution improvements.

Rantoul Foods applies deductions to 69 livestock transactions without a seller notification on record.