Category: Ag News
Nov 19
Choice Boxed Beef Slips 72 Cents to $371.23
Boxed beef prices declined on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, marking the fifth decrease in the past six sessions. The Choice cutout fell by $0.72 to $371.23, while Select dropped $1.40 to $353.55, widening the Choice/Select spread to $17.68. Total loads reported were 179, up from 163 on Tuesday. Among primal cuts, the Rib rose to …
Nov 19
AFIA’s Huddleston Surpasses 1,000 PCQIs Trained, Earns Award
The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) announced that Gary Huddleston, the American Feed Industry Association’s (AFIA) director of feed manufacturing and regulatory affairs, is one of its top 10 instructors in the country for Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) training for animal food. The alliance recognized Huddleston at its annual conference, this week in …
Nov 19
Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner Declines
Cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for your friends and family will cost less than last year, marking the third straight year of price declines. The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 40th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey provides a snapshot of the average cost of Thanksgiving staples that make up a classic holiday feast for 10, which is $55.18 …
Nov 19
Morocco to Mexico: A Conversation with USW’s Mitch Skalicky on 48 Years of Developing Global Wheat Markets
For this edition of Wheat Letter by US Wheat Associations, they sat down with Mitch Skalicky, USW’s regional vice president for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Venezuela. With a career spanning decades and continents, he is a cornerstone of USW’s international market development work. Skalicky opened the Mexico office in 1997 after arriving from Panama, where …
Nov 19
Glen Dolezal Believes Heavier Cattle Are Testing the System
In today’s Beef Buzz, senior farm and ranch broadcaster Ron Hays continues to feature comments made by one of the speakers at the recent King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management Symposium, Dr. Glen Dolezal, a recently retired meat scientist and executive, about the unavoidable rise in beef carcass weights. He emphasized that the industry is seeing …
Nov 19
Agriculture Workforce Coalition Announces Leadership Transition
The steering committee for the Agriculture Workforce Coalition (AWC), a broad-based coalition of ag groups seeking meaningful, long-term labor reform, unanimously elected American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall and Western Growers President & CEO Dave Puglia as the new Co-Chairs of the coalition. They succeed Chuck Conner, who retired earlier this year as CEO …
Nov 19
EPA Delivers Additional 100 Top Environmental Accomplishments, 300 Environmental Wins
Monday, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin shared 100 additional environmental accomplishments EPA has achieved in the last 100 days, recognizing 300 days of fulfilling the agency’s statutory obligations, and delivering clean air, land, and water for all Americans under President Donald Trump’s leadership. EPA Region 6 led the response to the Smitty’s …
Nov 19
Deeper Dive into Last Weeks Funding Bill
After 43 days of a Democrat-driven shutdown, the government finally reopened last week. This legislation was identical to a package that Republican leadership offered in the Senate weeks ago, showing that this entire situation was political and avoidable. This legislation responsibly reopened the government and fully funded three appropriations bills: Agriculture, Legislative Branch, and Military …
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