The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) issued a final scientific report to the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Agriculture (USDA) to inform the development of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs). The DGAC advised HHS and USDA to continue to recommend that Americans consume three servings of dairy per day and that dairy products stay a distinct food group in recognition of their unmatched health and nutrition benefits.
The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) reiterated the important role of beef in a healthy diet and responded to the questionable advice published in the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s Scientific Report. Despite a wealth of high quality scientific evidence that beef has an important role to play in a healthy diet, the committee is advising the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that federal nutrition guidelines include a reduction in red meat consumption.
The Meat Institute released the following statement regarding the Scientific Report of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (Report): “The Meat Institute remains strongly opposed to the Report’s recommendation to reduce meat consumption and will urge the agencies to reject it,” said Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts.
Brownfield Ag News is relaunching its popular Weekly Livestock Market Update on January 10, 2025. On Friday afternoons for nearly nine years, Brownfield Broadcast Supervisor Meghan Grebner has held an in-depth Facebook Live conversation with University of Missouri assistant extension professor Scott Brown. Dedicated viewers tune in to watch the program and subscribe to the program’s companion e-newsletter. With Brown’s departure from the university, Brownfield is relaunching with a new team of livestock economists. Viewers can tune in every Friday, mid- afternoon to watch the live weekly update, or sign up for Brownfield’s Weekly Market Update e-newsletter delivered Saturday morning.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released its plan to list the Monarch Butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with section 4(d) flexibilities. The agency will accept public comments on the proposal until March 12, 2025. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) and the Public Lands Council (PLC) call on USFWS to partner with livestock producers throughout this process.
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) is sharing a comprehensive set of federal policy priorities with President-Elect Trump’s transition team. IDFA President and CEO Michael Dykes, D.V.M., said IDFA and its more than 300 members are looking to the new administration to help U.S. dairy drive innovation, reduce barriers to business efficiency, and open new market access for healthy, nutritious U.S. dairy products around the world.
The 2025 Latin American Poultry Summit is set for Monday, Jan. 27. The program will be primarily conducted in Spanish, with translation services provided in English and Portuguese. The Summit is presented by the International Poultry Expo (IPE), part of the International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), and the Latin American Poultry Association (ALA). Remote interpretation will be provided, and the service can be accessed through Zoom. It is important to bring a phone and a headset for access, but additional headsets will be available if needed.
In a groundbreaking development for the United States egg industry, an Iowa hatchery has become the first site to offer an automated in-ovo sex determining solution in the nation. An identical machine is also operational at a hatchery in Texas. Chicks from the hatchery are expected to go to their first customer—NestFresh Eggs—by December 13, 2024, putting eggs sourced from in-ovo sexed hens into the marketplace by June 2, 2025. The machine, called Cheggy, is the first non-invasive in-ovo sex determining technology of its kind to determine the sex of a chick before hatching.
Since being introduced at the end of August, hundreds of Ayrstone AyrMesh HubDuo units have gone into use across the United States and Canada, providing faster, better outdoor WiFi to farmers, ranchers, and other rural homes and businesses. Now Ayrstone has announced an important new feature for the AyrMesh HubDuo: Meshing Modes.
