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Creating Uniformity in a Diverse Industry

January 27, 2016 Craig A. Morris, AMS Livestock, Poultry, and Seed Program Deputy Administrator

During its 100 years of serving the livestock industry, USDA Market News – part of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) – has prided itself in creating transparency and clarity in the marketplace by allowing all industry stakeholders to have the same information about the market at the same...

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Chicken Ranching Boosts Pasture Soil Health on Iowa Farm

January 27, 2016 Laura Crowell, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Iowa

When bison roamed the Great Plains, prairie chickens and other fowl played an important role as the clean-up crew. They would follow the herds feasting on the larvae in bison manure. In Doug Darrow’s 160-acre mob grazing system near Oxford, Iowa, his 300 chickens have the same job, but they ride in...

Conservation