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In the early 1980s the Omaha-based company Scoular Grain was a growing agribusiness led by Nebraska grain industry executive Marshall Faith. Faith, along with several other investors, had acquired what was then Scoular-Bishop Grain Company in 1967 [5] and expanded its operations from three grain elevators to dozens of locations in multiple states, and was beginning to branch out beyond grain ...
The costs of becoming NAIS compliant for a U.S. beef producer were found to be a minimum of $2.08 a head for large producers and as much as $17.56 a head for smaller operations, with an estimated average cost to cow/calf producers of $6.26 per animal, according to research by Christopher Raphael Crosby of Kansas State University's Department of ...
A fierce rival of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the Omaha Union Stockyards were third in the United States for production by 1890. [2] In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [3]
115th–116th Congresses: Subcommittee on Livestock, Marketing and Agriculture Security 112th–114th Congresses: Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Marketing and Agriculture Security Prior to 112th Congress: Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing, Inspection, and Plant and Animal Health .
Farm Bureau office in Pinckney, Michigan 1935 FDR remarks for the American Farm Bureau Federation on agriculture during the Great Depression. The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more informally called the American Farm Bureau (AFB) or simply the Farm Bureau, is a United States–based 501(c)(5) tax-exempt agricultural organization and lobbying group. [1]
Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) originated as an idea from the livestock committee of the Billings Chamber of Commerce in 1966. In 1967, the Public Auction Yards hosted an event to showcase the region’s vast livestock industry. [1] By the fall of 1968, a full-fledged livestock show with 250 exhibitors and 600 entries was ...
The United Nations writes that "intensification of animal production was seen as a way of providing food security." [24] In 1966, the United States, United Kingdom and other industrialized nations, commenced factory farming of beef and dairy cattle and domestic pigs. [9] As a result, farming became concentrated on fewer larger farms.
A stockyard company managed the work of unloading the livestock, which was faster and more efficient than using railway staff. [1] Terminal stockyards received, handled, fed, watered, weighed, held, and forward-shipped commercial livestock. [2] The Chicago Union Stock Yards were the most famous and enduring example of this type of commercial ...