Agribusiness Update for Monday 6/10/13

This is the Agribusiness Update...I’m Greg Martin...

Last week the Senate invoked cloture on the Farm Bill with a vote of 75 to 22. The bill includes 38 amendments approved by the Senate last year and 14 added in debate this year. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced the vote on final passage of the farm bill will be held this afternoon at 5:30 Eastern / 2:30 Pacific.

Montana cattleman Travis Brown speaking before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation last week said the National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act would place much-needed limits on the President’s unilateral power to designate national monuments and limit misuse of the Antiquities Act of 1906 by the Executive Branch. Brown testified on behalf of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Montana Stockgrowers Association.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has proposed meat packages with mechanically tenderized meat should be labeled with warnings to cook it adequately. Ag Under Secretary for Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen says labeling is necessary because it’s impossible to tell just by looking at meat that it has been mechanically tenderized.

That’s today’s Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network.