ASI Weekly Newsletter
April 2010
April 30, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed a bill that may expand the Berry Amendment. It approved, by a vote of 417-3, the Implementing Management for Performance and Related Reforms to Ob...
April 30, 2010
Don't miss the May 24 deadline! If you have a sheep operation story to share, we want to hear it! Tell us how you produce safe, environmentally friendly meat and wool. Show us your best sheep produ...
April 30, 2010
The first two articles of the 2010 edition of the Sheep and Goat Research Journal have been posted to www.sheepusa.org/Research_Journal.
April 30, 2010
The cutoff date for this year's Howard Wyman Sheep Industry Leadership School in Columbus, Ohio, July 10-14, 2010, has been extended to May 14, 2010. This year's school combines the Lamb 509 course...
April 30, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is hosting three public meetings to discuss animal disease traceability and to share information that was gathered during its earlier meeting with state an...
April 30, 2010
An Idaho-based conservation group will have to file a new lawsuit if it wants to challenge a decision this spring regarding protections for the greater sage grouse.
April 30, 2010
A federal judge in Missoula will hear oral arguments on June 15 on whether gray wolves in Montana and Idaho should be removed from the list of federally protected species. U.S. District Judge Donal...
April 30, 2010
The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week released to Congress a comprehensive report on agricultural transportation in the United States, the first ever of this magnitude. The report, Study of ...
April 30, 2010
Ninety percent of consumers think food recalls have risen or remained stable, according to a new survey commissioned by Deloitte. In 2008, 73 percent of respondents said there had been more recalls...
April 30, 2010
The U.S. House of Representatives' Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (Minn.) today begins a series of field hearings on the 2012 Farm Bill.