Drover’s Alert: Animal Rights Extemists Step Up Attacks on Global Food Supply
Extremist attacks on global food chain increase By Drovers news source (2/25/2009) Attacks on the global food chain from animal-rights and environmental extremists jumped 42 percent — from 155 in 2007...
View ArticleUSDA TO CONDUCT FIRST WIDE-SCALE SURVEY OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Comment: This is great news! We receive many inquiries from the media and the public for hard statistics about organic production. It will be a great resource.–Jack Carson This spring, USDA will...
View ArticleSTATE AG SECRETARY ASSURES EATING PORK IS SAFE
Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture, Terry Peach, said data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and other health agencies confirm that eating pork cannot cause people to become infected with the...
View ArticleAGRICULTURE DEPUTY SECRETARY MERRIGAN ANNOUNCES FUNDING FOR NEW ORGANICS...
Speaking today (Monday) to the USDA National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced $50 Million for a new initiative to meet the Obama Administration’s...
View ArticleSecretary Peach Corrects Misguided Letter Writer
A recent letter to the editor printed in the Edmond Sun newspaper drew a succinct response from Oklahoma’s top agriculture official. Terry Peach, Secretary of Agriculture responded with the following...
View Article2009 Survey Shows Consumers Are Getting Worse In Terms of Food Safety
It seems that every time there is an outbreak of food borne illness, production agriculture is somehow blamed and often even suffers severe financial losses. This is frustrating to producers and those...
View ArticleOrganic Field Day Set For July 14
Oklahoma’s only certified organic public agricultural research facility will open its fields to visitors on July 14. The Lane Ag Center, ten miles east of Atoka on Highway 3, will share the results of...
View ArticleNew Food Safety Website Announced
The United States Department of Agriculture and the United State Food and Drug Administration have teamed up to develop a new food safety website they say will include how-to information and provide a...
View ArticleOrganic Organization Launches Website
The Organic Trade Association has launched a new website for growers, businesses and consumers. The site is http://www.organicitsworthit.org. The organizations says it wants to keep stakeholders...
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