December 17, 2008 RSS feed / Farm & Ranch

TDA Market Recap - 12/1/08

AUSTIN - (Dec. 15, 2008) For the week ending Dec. 13, 2008, feeder cattle price trends at Texas auctions were again mixed, with most sales steady to $7 lower per hundredweight. More...

Administration to change farm worker hiring rules

WASHINGTON (AP) - As it prepares to leave office, the Bush administration is moving to make it easier for U.S. farming companies to hire foreign field workers, which farmworker groups say will worsen wages and working conditions. More...

California slaughter plant abuse of cattle reported

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Agriculture Department's inspector general said Tuesday that there wasn't a systemic failure behind the cattle abuse that led to the nation's biggest beef recall last February. More...

10,000 chickens killed in barn fire

PADUCAH, Ky.(AP) - A fire official says about 10,000 chickens were killed when a fastmoving fire destroyed a western Kentucky barn. No people were hurt in the Friday fire, according to The Paducah Sun. More...