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30 Aug 2024
BOONE, Iowa (DTN) -- Health insurance and healthcare availability have always been a challenge in rural areas and now Iowa-based agricultural solutions company, Landus, is helping farmers with health coverage. "We talk to our farmer-members and the number one thing on their minds is health insurance," Molly Toot, senior vice president of administra...
30 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- Nebraska on Thursday became the latest state to implement rules against lab-grown or cell-cultured meat products with Gov. Jim Pillen signing an executive order to restrict state agencies from buying such products. It's a largely symbolic gesture at this point in the country's largest red-meat producing state because there are no lab...
30 Aug 2024
OMAHA (DTN) -- The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus affecting dairy herds around the country may have landed in California's Central Valley as the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is investigating a possible outbreak at three dairy farms. CDFA late Thursday announced the testing of samples from three dairies at the state'...
29 Aug 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service released new guidelines on Wednesday aimed at strengthening documentation in support of environmental or animal-raising labeling claims on meat and poultry products after a recent study found antibiotics in livestock raised for the no-antibiotics market. Among the guidelines is USDA's...
28 Aug 2024
BOONE, Iowa (DTN) -- Farm-state politics and policy took center stage Wednesday as the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and the USDA secretary took center stage at the Farm Progress Show. Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, R-Pa., the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, was asked by a reporter about what would change if Vice President Kam...