In this podcast, writers and editors at the Capital Press talk about the possibility of federal policy on egg-laying hens, farmers' expectations for the coming year, Chinese pesticide espionage, the outlook for the Western snowpack and a court victory for people raising livestock in Washington state.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has adopted an interim policy to protect the greater sage grouse in 10 Western states until it can implement long-term policies to preserve habitat for the mainly ground-dwelling bird.
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Several factors have decreased U.S. beef imports in 2011, but at the top of the list is the weaker U.S. dollar. The weak dollar makes it more expensive for U.S. end users to purchase beef overseas and reduces the attractiveness of the U.S. market to importers.
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Snowpack levels across the Northwest are well below average at the end of 2011, but the outlook for irrigators seems likely to improve in the new year.
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Idaho officials believe an in-store promotion of Idaho products by Mexico’s second-largest retailer was a major coup for the state’s agricultural community. Mexican supermarket chain Soriana, which owns 480 grocery and super-stores, promoted Idaho products at several of its stores for seven days. The pilot promotion was timed to kick off Dec. 8 with the arrival of an Idaho trade delegation.
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The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service reinstatement of its trout report came as a pleasant surprise to Idaho’s trout industry. The agency decided to ax the report, along with 13 others it would eliminate or reduce, in mid-October, but announced it was reinstating the report, along with nine others.
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