The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) has extended the trial period for a study on the impact that line speeds have on workers at swine processing facilities, until November 30, 2023.

The Board of Directors of the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) has endorsed a proposal that will modernize the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) system. Overseen by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), FMMOs establish provisions under which dairy processors buy fresh milk from dairy farmers who supply a marketing area, maintaining stable marketing relationships for all handlers and producers and organizing the complex process of marketing fresh milk.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed new requirements for the voluntary “Product of USA” claim. The proposed rule allows the voluntary “Product of USA” or “Made in the USA” label claim to be used on meat, poultry, and egg products only when they are derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the United States.

Earlier this month, United States Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced the Beagle Brigade Act of 2023. The bipartisan bill would provide permanent authorization for the National Detector Dog Training Center, located in Newnan, Georgia.

United States Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) have introduced The Military Family Nutrition Access Act, to support active-duty military families experiencing food insecurity. The bipartisan bill would address food insecurity by excluding Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH), from income calculations used to determine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has announced that it is requesting technical consultations with the Government of Mexico under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Chapter of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). The request comes as the United States and Mexico are at battle regarding genetically modified corn.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced over $43 million for meat and poultry processing research, innovation, and expansion. This funding comes as part of the American Rescue Plan and the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI).

President Joe Biden has released the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY2024) budget. The President’s plan calls for increasing corporate taxes and income taxes on higher-income earners (over $400,000) to shave the growth of the national debt over the next decade.

This experiment evaluated the effects of the dietary inclusion or not of Aspergillus oryzae prebiotic (AOP; 2 g/d) in two contrasting diets: sorghum silage-based (SS) vs. byproducts-based (BP), on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, and feeding behavior of growing heifers.

Postbiotic fermentation products have the potential to improve health and support anti-inflammatory functions when fed to lactating dairy cows. Since dairy cows experience disruptions of the intestinal barrier function at various stages of their life, for example, the transition into lactation, we sought to investigate potential beneficial effects of feeding a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation (NTK) before and during a period of feed restriction to challenge gut function.

Swine can be exposed to a variety of nutritional stressors that can affect their well-being and productivity. Three stressors of concern include grains with naturally occurring mycotoxins, oxidized proteins in feedstuffs due to overheating during processing, or lipids that have been damaged by excessive heating.

The shortage of feed resources and the rising price have become one of the significant challenges for animal husbandry worldwide. Considering the strong tolerance and adaptability to roughage of geese, less expensive crop byproducts are used in goose feed by animal nutritionists.

Metabolizable energy (ME) is one of the major factors in formulating diets for ducks and most studies on the ME values of ingredients have been conducted on Peking ducks, with limited research on Muscovy ducks.

Previous studies that determined the requirement of amino acids (AA) in cats utilized experimental diets that do not represent commercial cat diets available in the market. Using this type of diets can present a challenge when applying AA requirements to commercial diet production.

Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation product (SCFP) is a yeast product containing bioactive fermentation metabolites, residual yeast cells, and yeast cell wall fragments. In this study, SCFP was investigated for its impacts on fecal characteristics and oxidative stress of dogs undergoing transport stress.

Lactating cows can undergo periods with a negative energy balance due to feed shortages, which trigger metabolic adaptations to support cow maintenance and milk yield. We explored beef cows’ response to a short feed restriction (4 d, 55% of their energy and protein requirements) and subsequent refeeding (4 d, 100% of their energy and protein requirements) in the second month of lactation.

Trace minerals (TM) are important for oxidative balance and immunity of cows. Different forms of TM are available for dietary supplementation of dairy cows. We tested whether replacing inorganic salts of TM by organic sources of TM in both pre- and postpartum diets improve TM concentration in body fluids and liver, antioxidant capacity in blood, and postpartum health of dairy cows.

The present model using mixed diets with different by-products to obtain macronutrient balance, methane emission, and milk performance during mid lactation could be an interesting tool to help farmers, without the costs of running animal experiments.

Net energy (NE) is the most refined energy system in animal nutrition, and understanding the NE partition patterns of pigs can help us to develop suitable feeding strategies to improve the growth performance and carcass traits of pigs. However, it is time-consuming, laborious, and expensive to directly measure the NE; thus, establishing a predicted model is more efficient.

Dietary protein concentration has been gradually reduced because reductions in protein concentration in swine diets are known to be beneficial in terms of feed costs, nitrogen excretion, and intestinal microbiota. However, ileal indigestible protein concentration may be more influential in those variables of pigs compared with total protein concentration in diets because ileal indigestible protein considers both protein concentration and digestibility of diets.