Insights and Stories of P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. lawmakers want to curb antibiotic use on farms

Sep. 16, 2014 at 2:20 pm CDT

Reuters — Two U.S. lawmakers are calling for action to rein in antibiotic use in livestock in response to a Reuters investigation showing how top U.S. poultry firms have been administering drugs to their flocks. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said she plans to introduce new legislation authorizing the Food […]

Farmaceuticals: Poultry firms systematically feed low-dose antibiotics to flocks

Sep. 15, 2014 at 4:49 pm CDT

By Brian Grow P.J. Huffstutter

Farmaceuticals: Problems at Foster Farms plants emerged amid salmonella outbreak

Sep. 15, 2014 at 4:43 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

Zoetis gets conditional license from USDA for PEDv vaccine

Sep. 3, 2014 at 12:55 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek

Tyson looks for other pork export markets after China ban

Aug. 15, 2014 at 6:10 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter Theopolis Waters

BPI reopens plant as ‘pink slime’ lawsuit proceeds

Aug. 13, 2014 at 2:15 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Beef Products Inc. will reopen a Kansas processing plant on Monday to boost production of “lean finely textured beef,” which critics call “pink slime,” as wholesale beef prices soar with a shrinking U.S. cattle herd. The reopening of the Garden City, Kansas, plant comes more than […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Panel’s report likely to tie farm antibiotics to human resistance

Jul. 23, 2014 at 4:34 pm CDT

Reuters — A White House advisory committee is expected to acknowledge the link between antimicrobial resistance in humans and livestock being fed antibiotics when it issues its report in the next few weeks, according to the transcript of a committee meeting held earlier this month. But how much of the […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

USDA sued over drug-resistant salmonella in meat

May. 29, 2014 at 5:22 am CDT

Reuters — A consumer group on Wednesday accused the U.S. Department of Agriculture of putting the public’s health at risk by allowing meat with antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella to be sold to consumers, according to a lawsuit filed against the agency. The allegation came in a complaint filed by Center […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Cooling wholesale pork prices send hog, cattle futures tumbling

Apr. 6, 2014 at 12:33 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs futures fell three cents, as much as the market allows, on Friday as wholesale pork pricing cooled and cash hog prices weakened. CME feeder and live cattle prices also fell sharply in response. Livestock traders worried that wholesale prices of bacon […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Merck wants to test Zilmax on 240,000 cattle but beef industry resists

Apr. 4, 2014 at 3:14 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Merck & Co Inc. wants to feed its controversial feed additive Zilmax to 240,000 U.S. cattle to prove it is safe. But there is a problem: giant meat processors like Cargill Inc don’t want to touch animals fed with the drug. Merck plans to conduct the […]

By P.J. Huffstutter Tom Polansek