USDA Farm Service Agency: Disaster Assistance

The USDA Farm Service Agency provides assistance for natural disasters.

January 15, 2008

The Farm Service Agency provides assistance for natural disaster losses, resulting from drought, flood, fire, freeze, tornadoes, pest infestation, and other calamities.

To view their website, please click here.

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Production resumes at idled Wayne-Sanderson Farms plant

Lawmakers seek quick aid to hurricane-hit ag producers

Lawmakers seek quick aid to hurricane-hit ag producers

Members of both houses, representing five southeastern states, want to “fully fund unmet agricultural disaster relief needs in our states and across the nation.”

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Consumer Trends

McDonald’s Chicken Big Mac to officially enter US market

Rumors of the sandwich’s return had been circulating online for months.

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Ukraine’s Ovostar Union building two new poultry houses

Despite the continuing war and unfavorable economic conditions, the country’s second largest egg producer proceeds with plans to build.

Pure Prairie Poultry Chapter 11 petition dismissed

Numerous creditors objected to the Iowa poultry company’s bankruptcy filing.

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Poultry Tech Trends

Popeyes chicken wing truck tour scores this football season

The QSR recently crowned itself as the Official Wing of Watching Football.

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Processing & Slaughter

USDA funds poultry processing training center in Puerto Rico

Project aims to both develop a skilled workforce and reduce the island’s dependence on imports.

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Rainbow Chicken reports positive developments in sales, profit

Improvements in revenue and profitability occurred, despite a series of avian flu outbreaks in South Africa's poultry flocks.

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Processing & Slaughter

Poultry plants gradually resuming production after Helene

Three companies report still having one plant that remains offline.

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Diseases & Health

Newcastle disease reappears in Polish poultry

The latest flock to be infected involved 51,900 head of poultry.

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Lidl GB announces additional support for U.K. egg producers

Supermarket Initiative sees financial and welfare measures adopted to help ensure suppliers’ sustainability.

Lidl has announced, amongst other measures, long-term cost of production contracts and help in securing finance to ensure the viability of its free-range egg suppliers.

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Opportunities to improve hatchery sanitation and support chick health

Editor Elizabeth Doughman talks to Josh Deines, Ph.D. technical service device lead, Zoetis, about hatchery sanitation opportunities to support overall process integrity/success.

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USDA: 6% fewer turkeys expected to be raised in 2024

Of the 13 largest turkey producing states, only four are expected to raise the same number of turkeys in 2024 as they did during the previous year.

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