Page 26 - Meat Processors News Today

Published January 18, 2021, 1:31 PM President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered to retain the 5 percent tariff on mechanically deboned meat (MDM), a decision in favor of the local meat processors to the dismay of local raisers. President Duterte issued Executive Order (EO) 123 to keep the tariff on MDM low at 5 percent, instead of reverting it to 40 percent amid the lapse of the country’s Quantitative Restriction (QR) privileges and the eventual enactment of the Rice Tariffication Law (RA 11203). T...

arsenisspyros/iStock/Thinkstock A look at a Dealer Statutory Trust, help for small meat processors, Livestock Mandatory Reporting extension and animal health funds. In the over 5,500 pages of the recent approved appropriations and COVID-relief, there are several nuggets important to those in the livestock sector including certainty that producers can recoup payment losses by establishing a dealer trust, funding for agriculture quarantine inspection services and an exte...

Chelsea Stanfield / KOSU The new $900 billion coronavirus relief bill recently passed by Congress includes $60 million of grants for small meat processors to update and expand their facilities. Up to $200,000 in grants can be used to update or expand a small processing facility to meet U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection standards. Updating to federal inspection standards would mean the meat could be sold across state lines. The inclusion is a modified version of the Requiring Assistanc...

Agricultural groups and farm state lawmakers are pleased that the new COVID relief package passed by Congress last night includes help for producers excluded from previous aid legislation. Sen. John Thune (R-SD) says relief includes the Paycheck Protection Program for Producers Act. “The bill also includes funding to allow the Department of Agriculture to provide additional assistance to ag producers who were dealing with a tough economy before the pandemic hit,” said Thune. Many farmers an...

  WASHINGTON (Dec. 21, 2020) – The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) secured critical wins for cattle producers today through the latest government funding and COVID-19 relief packages. The deal includes additional Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP) support for cattle producers, expanded resources for state-inspected meat processors through inclusion of the Requiring Assistance to Meat Processors for Upgrading Plants (RAMP UP) Act, certainty that cattle producers can re...

The Philippines has lifted the ban on poultry imports from Brazil after it proved that its foreign meat establishments (FMEs) are free from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) contamination. In the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Memorandum 71 that ordered the ban’s lifting, Agriculture Secretary William Dar said the South American country “provided evidence that the safety protocols enforced in different accredited FMEs are equivalent to the guidelines established by the Philippines rel...

For the fifth consecutive week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has added more than 200 new entries to its list of outbreaks related to COVID-19, and an increasing number have tallied death tolls higher than since the early days of the pandemic. An extreme example is Windsor Healthcare, a skilled-nursing facility in Weld County. The CDPHE has confirmed sixty positive staff cases, 85 positive resident cases and seven resident deaths. The CDPHE considers an entity an outb...

Panels. today we have democrats talking about paul ryan and saying his plan, there are going to be deathtraps for seniors. and the republicans are screaming, as they should, because thats such demagoguery. what we have, i think what were seeing, we saw in the first story of this show, there is a certain madness in the air right now. theres a distemper in our politics making this extremely difficult to reach what is critically important for the country. >> the more things change, the more they re...

Tape of how some animals are treated by meat processors. now theres a move to make those tapes illegal. what are they trying to hide or might they have a point? were keeping them honest. for pain? oh, bayer aspirin? im not having a heart attack. its my back. it works great for pain. [ male announcer ] nothings proven to relieve pain better than extra strength bayer aspirin. it rushes relief to the site of pain. feel better? yeah. thanks for the tip.