The 3rd Annual Rendezvous City Beef Roundup will take place on Saturday, September 10th, 2022, at the CWC Campus in Riverton, Wyoming. The Rendezvous City Beef Roundup is designed to…
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Information updated by USDA’s Economic Research Service shows in 2020, U.S. farms sold almost $10.7 billion of food commodities directly to consumer outlets and supply chains. This includes restaurants, grocery…
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U.S. consumers will pay $69.68 for their favorite Independence Day cookout foods, including cheeseburgers, pork chops, chicken breasts, homemade potato salad, strawberries and ice cream, based on a new American…
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Congressional Report Challenges Packer Practices During Pandemic
by Colter BrownA recent congressional report spotlighted how executives at major meatpacking companies lobbied the Trump administration to require employees to work in spring 2020 when COVID-19 was causing packing plants to…
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The farm share of the food dollar increased one cent in 2020, according to new data from USDA’s Economic Research Service. On average, U.S. farmers received 16.0 cents for farm…
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Growing More Confident: WIPFLI’s 2022 Outlook for the Agriculture Industry
by Colter BrownBy Brad Cook – WIPFLI Agribusiness Practice Leader In 2021, agricultural producers took a double whammy: pandemic-related relief programs dried up, and about half of the contiguous U.S. experienced moderate…
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This spring, when wholesale beef prices reached record levels and shelves at the meat counter began to look a little bare, consumer interest in locally raised meat began to take…
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The Food Industry Association and the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education, the foundation for the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), released their 15th-annual in-depth study of…