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News, Insights & Interviews Archive


New Pork Sausage Plant Underway for Iowa Town That Lost Pork Processing Facility
One of the world’s largest food companies is working on a new priority for an Iowa town. JBS USA -- based in Greeley, Colorado – plans to...
Dave Price
May 302 min read


Decision Time for Some American Cattle Ranchers
“Most American burgers are, in fact, not entirely American,” began a New York Times article , an article that dished out what many...
Dave Price
May 163 min read


New Trade Deal Could Bring Help for Beef and Ethanol Industries
The promise of new trade deals fuels both optimism and pessimism from farmers and producers as they wait for developments from the Trump...
Dave Price
May 162 min read


Recession Predictions and a Change in Demand for Meat
The week brought a series of announcements that may have varying effects on farmland owners and investors. First, the overall economy. It...
Dave Price
May 22 min read


U.S. Senators Want USDA More Focused on Dairy and Turkey for HPAI
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants the USDA to remember that highly pathogenic avian influenza is not just a threat to millions of...
Dave Price
Apr 181 min read


Check Kiting Allegation Against Hog Farmers
A lawsuit alleges a billion-dollar check kiting scheme that has left 110,000 pigs in “imminent danger,” and could cost lenders millions...
Dave Price
Apr 112 min read


Young Girl Died from Bird Flu; USDA Reducing Bird Flu Response Workers
There has now been a documented case of a child dying from highly pathogenic avian influenza. Health officials in Mexico said Tuesday...
Dave Price
Apr 113 min read


New Avian Influenza Vaccines for Chickens and Humans Show Promise
There are new developments for a highly pathogenic avian influenza vaccine for both chickens and humans. Both vaccines could be...
Dave Price
Feb 272 min read


Chaos and Confusion about HPAI Fight
Agriculture finds itself in the middle of one of the biggest federal government transformations in recent memory. Programs have been...
Dave Price
Feb 213 min read


Finances and the Flu
An Iowa lawmaker has joined others from across the country in calling for additional research on the bird flu, while new cases of the...
Dave Price
Dec 13, 20242 min read


Poultry Plant Failure
What happened after a Minnesota company received tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer support to reopen an Iowa poultry processing...
Dave Price
Oct 11, 20243 min read


Animal Cruelty Concerns vs Producer Hardship
Most voters wanted it. A U.S. District Court judge upheld it. And now producers wait to see whether an appeal will stop its...
Dave Price
Jul 26, 20243 min read


Do We Really Know How Widespread Bird Flu Is on Dairy Farms?
If you live in a rural area, can’t afford to miss work to go to a doctor, and may not speak English as your primary language, how likely...
Dave Price
Jul 12, 20243 min read


Bird Flu Vaccine in Development
With avian influenza spreading beyond birds, so are the efforts to protect Americans against it. Moderna -- a pharmaceutical and...
Dave Price
Jul 5, 20243 min read


Bird Flu's Challenge for Milk Producers
For the past two weeks, numerous publications have examined the findings of a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that...
Dave Price
Jun 28, 20243 min read


Optimistic View About the Battle Against Bird Flu
SPOTIFY | APPLE PODCASTS Greg Tyler considers himself an optimist. “I’m a glass half full type of guy,” he told American Farmland Owner...
Dave Price
Jun 14, 20243 min read


Bird Flu Deaths
Concerns have elevated after the first confirmed human death, along with the deaths of dairy cattle, from avian influenza. Initial...
Dave Price
Jun 7, 20242 min read


Undercounting the Severity of the Bird Flu
Are more dairy cattle and more Americans sick with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) than officials know? And how much will that...
Dave Price
May 3, 20242 min read


Testing for Safety
Starting April 29th, new federal guidelines go into place to try to prevent the spread of the latest challenge for ranchers and farmland...
Dave Price
Apr 26, 20242 min read


Bird Flu Spreads with Human Infection
The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)/bird flu has spread beyond dairy cattle. The Texas Department of State Health Services...
Dave Price
Apr 5, 20242 min read
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