by Beef News | Jul 30, 2025 | Policy, Business, Farm Policy
A South Dakota rancher sells three steers at auction. Before he sees a dime, $3 is skimmed off the top. It doesn’t pay his feed bill. It doesn’t fix his fencing. It goes to fund ads, research, and meetings he’ll never attend—promoting beef he can’t trace, run by a...
by Beef News | Jul 28, 2025 | Policy, Business, Farm Policy
It was supposed to be patriotic. In 2020, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to keep meat plants running during COVID, casting himself as a defender of the American food supply. In 2024, he doubled down, reviving his “Made in the USA”...
by Beef News | Jul 27, 2025 | Health, Policy, Science
Biotech’s next phase won’t look like Monsanto—it’ll look like software updates sprayed onto crops. On July 1, 2025, Flagship Pioneering—the same venture firm that birthed Moderna—unveiled Terrana Biosciences, a $50 million RNA agriculture startup promising “real-time...
by Beef News | Jul 25, 2025 | Health, Farm Policy, Policy
The fix is in. And they’re hoping you don’t notice. On July 23, 2025, the House Appropriations Committee quietly advanced two of the most industry-serving provisions in recent memory: Section 453, which would grant lawsuit immunity to pesticide manufacturers, and...
by Breeauna Sagdal | Jul 20, 2025 | Health, Policy, Science
Following a tense year of Monsanto-Bayer’s 6-pronged strategy, making agrichemicals the next class of liability immune products in the United States, anger erupted last week all across social media as the federal level strategy was revealed. That palpable...
