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Daily News Briefing - Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Livestock
 Hog Prices Jump as Soaring Feed Costs Spill to Livestock Market - Bloomberg | 01/4/2021
 An Israeli cowboy hopes cattle-herding drones will modernize the livestock industry - CNN.com | 12/18/2020
 Why you should never give spoiled feed to your poultry or livestock - Bangor Daily News | 12/28/2020
Farming
 Federal checks salvage otherwise dreadful 2020 for US farms - Associated Press | 12/31/2020
 Iowa farm bankruptcies continue to rise, despite aid - TheGazette.com | 01/4/2021
Government & Regulatory
 Farm Groups Blast Trump Competition Rule as Favoring Meat Giants - Bloomberg | 12/10/2020
 USDA releases new dietary guidelines: What do they mean for you? - Today.com | 12/29/2020
 CRISPR’d Cows: Proposed Rule Change By USDA Could Accelerate Gene-Edited Animal Production - The Spoon | 12/30/2020
 New Round of Crop, Livestock Aid Included in Appropriations, COVID-19 Relief Package - DTNPF.com - DTN Progressive Farmer | 12/29/2020
 
Livestock
 
Bloomberg | January 4, 2021
Byline: Michael Hirtzer
Reach: 39.5m
The blistering rally in global animal-feed markets is beginning to spill into the pandemic-battered U.S. hog sector. Chicago hog futures
 
CNN.com | December 18, 2020
Byline: Bijan Hosseini
Reach: 270m
route for cattle herding. Azran began using drones six years ago to give himself a better perspective of managing large areas for cattle
 
Bangor Daily News | December 28, 2020
Byline: Julia Bayly
Reach: 1.3m
, if after you have fed out all of the feed from that bag and your livestock is happy, you can just feed them what’s in the baggie, but if
 
 
Farming
 
Associated Press | December 31, 2020
Byline: DAVID PITT
Reach: 45.5m
farmers were better off getting government payments than relying solely on their farming receipts. “In fact, some people say our farmers do
 
TheGazette.com | January 4, 2021
Byline: Erin Jordan
Reach: 587k
farmers. “I’ll start selling that next week,” he said. “A lot of mine is baleage, so I’m going to see some of the Amish farmers.” The farm
 
 
Government & Regulatory
 
Bloomberg | December 10, 2020
Byline: Mike Dorning
Reach: 39.5m
the packer does not qualify for any of the various safe harbors the USDA has created to protect packers from effective enforcement,” Bullard
 
Today.com | December 29, 2020
Byline: Kerry Breen
Reach: 19.6m
Every five years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) release the U.S. Dietary
 
The Spoon | December 30, 2020
Byline: Michael Wolf
Reach: 149k
But that may soon change. Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) pushed out a proposed rule change suggesting that they take
 
DTNPF.com - DTN Progressive Farmer | December 29, 2020
Reach: 99.8k
specific provisions for aid to livestock producers. The American Farm Bureau Federation looked at assistance for cattle producers based on a