Beef. It s What s For Dinner. Returns to Broadcast TV this Holiday Season
Friday Dec 25th, 2020 With the holidays looking a little different this year, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, is ensuring one thing remains the same - Beef. It’s What’s For Holiday Dinner. Whether gathering around the ‘Beef Drool Log’ or learning how to cook the perfect holiday meal with beef, Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. has a little something for everyone this holiday season. To remind consumers across the country that beef is the only protein that they want to feed their families this holiday season, Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. will return to broadcast television. For the first time since 2003, Beef Checkoff-funded advertisements and the iconic Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner. brand will be on television, airing a limited number of ads during the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas movies.
The Center for Biological Diversityâs âTrump Lawsuit Trackerâ reports that the environmental organization sued the current White House administration 248 times during the past four years.
Thatâs an average of about one lawsuit a week, with Sundays off. When he takes office Jan. 20, Joe Biden will inherit those unresolved cases, including several with major national consequences for farmers and ranchers.
What the new administration will do with those lawsuits, however, has lawyers on all sides of the issues guessing.
âIt will affect lawsuits, and it will affect lawsuits dramatically,â the centerâs litigation director, Eric Glitzenstein, said. âThat much is easy to predict. The real question will be how it affects a particular case.â
After months of partisan disagreements and bickering, Congress finally approved a $900 billion coronavirus economic assistance package to help stimulate the economy hit hard by the pandemic. It includes $600 payments for many Americans, expands a lending program for small businesses, provides additional support for nutrition, agriculture, schools, airlines, rail, and transit systems, and vaccine distribution. Unemployed individuals will receive an additional $300 per week in unemployment benefits through March 14, 2021. This compares to $600 per week under the CARES Act.
The bill provides $13 billion in COVID-related assistance to support producers, growers, processors, specialty crops, dairy, livestock, poultry, and contract livestock and poultry producers and $13 billion in nutrition assistance.
Coronavirus package allots $13 billion for crop and livestock producers Lawmakers combined the coronavirus bill with legislation to fund the government through the Sept. 30 end of the current fiscal year. By
12/23/2020 Row crop farmers would see payments of $20 an acre and livestock producers would be compensated for animals culled during the pandemic under the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill that was unexpectedly challenged by President Trump on Tuesday, a day after Congress passed it. The bill provides $13 billion for agriculture, to be distributed through initiatives that include a $400 million dairy donation program, aid to contract poultry growers, and assistance for textile mills and, potentially, ethanol refineries.
You know itâs been a rough one when people start talking about turning to a new year while itâs still September.
Those souls, tempest-tossed and woebegone, are a few days from getting their wish and being rid of 2020. But changing the calendar wonât magically wave away the changes of the past year.
2021 will begin with high unemployment, muted demand from restaurants, a nationwide vaccination program that is just getting started, and a handsome U.S. sovereign debt.
Here are some of the big questions for the ag industry as it enters the new year.
1. How will the Biden administration shape farm policy?