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Anti-Rabies Work Focusing on Raccoons
USDA’s efforts to combat rabies in the United States focuses on keeping rabies out of raccoons. Stephanie Ho has more on the story.
Are Pork Production Cutbacks in the Offing?
Hog producers a month ago said they plan to cut back on production; but will changing conditions cancel those plans? Gary Crawford has this report.
NPPC, AFBF Seek to Cancel California Prop 12
Two animal agriculture groups are challenging California’s Proposition 12 on the grounds that it violates the commerce clause. The National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation have jointly filed an opening brief to the U.S. Court of…
