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It’s National Pork Month – Join USDA for a Webinar Series Highlighting Market Reports and Pork Industry Data

October 06, 2021 Taylor Cox, Associate Deputy Administrator, AMS Livestock and Poultry Program

October is National Pork Month! America’s pork producers play a major role in feeding the world, and this month we honor their hard work and dedication to providing high quality products to consumers. Collectively, they generate 13% of the world’s pork supply, making the United States the world’s...

Animals

Be Sure to Invite Food Safety to Your Next Pig Roast

May 24, 2021 Jesus Garcia, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety Education Staff

Long days, hot temperatures and family gatherings will soon return to America’s backyards. Also returning are traditions, like roasting a whole pig. Roasting a pig requires a lot of planning before, during and after the meal to ensure food safety. Over the past few years, there have been foodborne...

Health and Safety

Who Will Win? #TeamChickenWing or #TeamPorkRib

February 01, 2021 Michael Sheats, AMS Livestock and Poultry Program and Lillie Zeng, AMS Public Affairs

Sitting down for the Super Bowl on Feb. 7 might look a little different this year, but one thing remains the same: you need the perfect game day protein to fuel up for the Big Game. America has spoken and it’s down to chicken wing or pork rib - which team will you be on?

Food and Nutrition

Knowledge is Power with New Users Guides for Pork and Swine Market Reports

June 04, 2018 Michael Lynch, Director, AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News

The smell of pork barbeque fills the country air – must be time for the summer grilling season! Before pork makes its way into the store and onto your grill, complex transactions occur between producers, packers, retailers, and foodservice providers. To ensure market transparency, USDA’s Livestock...

Animals

Bringing You Food and Fiber to Fit Your Active Lifestyle

October 15, 2014 Darryl Earnest, Agricultural Marketing Service Deputy Administrator

If you’ve learned how to cut a mango from a magazine article, read about new fabrics on a website or heard about nutrition research on almonds from a health reporter on TV, chances are one of America’s ag promotion groups made that information possible and available. From the clothes you wear to the...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

Keeping #AgStrong

July 24, 2014 Ed Avalos, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs

The strength of America’s farmers and ranchers is undeniable. I knew that strength firsthand growing up in a rural community that depended on agriculture. And I see it in so many ways as I meet folks from across the country in my role at USDA—in their work ethic, in their dedication to their crops...

Conservation

Pooling Resources for Scientific Breakthroughs

April 30, 2014 Craig A. Morris, Deputy Administrator of the AMS Livestock, Poultry and Seed Program

American farmers know about planting seeds—both in the ground and in groundbreaking research. While the seeds they plant as individual farmers feed and clothe the rest of us, the seeds they sow collectively through participation in research and promotion (R&P) programs are vitally important, too...

Conservation

New Reports Provide Greater Market Transparency

April 11, 2013 Ed Avalos, Under Secretary of USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs

Earlier this year, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) published the first Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) Wholesale Pork reports. This was the culmination of a process that started when Congress passed the Mandatory Price Reporting Act of 2010, which added wholesale pork cuts to the...

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