Friday, November 20, 2009
Click here for RSS feedJOSEPH, Ore. (AP) -- The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says a wildlife biologist videotaped a pack of at least 10 gray wolves on Forest Service land in Eastern Oregon. The agency says the pack is the largest yet confirmed in Oregon since wolves began returning to the state in the ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:58 AM
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BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. (AP) -- Officials at Bandelier National Monument have removed five unbranded, untagged feral bulls from the northern New Mexico monument. Monument Superintendent Jason Lott says having cattle anywhere within the monument's boundaries conflicts with Bandel ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:24 AM
The USDA's purchase of up to $50 million of pork for federal food programs will help producers, according to industry leaders. Don Butler, president of the National Pork Producers Council, said his organization is thankful for the announcement made Nov. 11 by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:11 AM
A federal judge has added $150,000 to the original $4.22 million judgment won by the estate of rancher Wayne Hage in a years-long battle over property rights. The federal government had asked Senior Judge Loren Smith to throw out the judgment. Instead, he increased it. Hage, a leader ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:34 AM
SUN VALLEY -- Idaho Sen. Tim Corder, R-Mountain Home, was at the Idaho Cattle Association Convention in Sun Valley Tuesday, Nov. 17, to ask cattlemen to help develop animal cruelty legislation. Corder, chairman of the Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee, has been preparing two bills on ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:39 AM
One of the largest U.S. beef packers has reported a substantial increase in profits even as its overall sales decreased in the past year. The National Beef Packing Co., which slaughters roughly one in seven head of fed cattle in the U.S., saw total revenues fall by about $400 million in i ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:18 AM
BOISE -- Idaho has agreed to pay $50,000 and pledged to follow anti-discrimination rules to settle a federal lawsuit against state officials who awarded grazing leases to ranchers, not to the environmentalist who had offered more money. The Idaho Board of Land has also committed to revisi ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:14 PM
Camelina OK'd as cattle feed BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Camelina companies say federal officials have approved the use of meal from the biofuels crop as a 10 percent supplement in cattle feed -- a development that could boost the prospects for Montana's fledgling camelina industry. The Food ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:20 AM
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Prosecutors have dismissed all 72 immigration charges against a former Iowa kosher slaughterhouse manager. The move came after Sholom Rubashkin's conviction last week in federal court on financial fraud charges. Prosecutors filed the motion Thursday morni ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:18 PM
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers. At issue are small cages, typically 24 inches wide by 251 ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
GENEVA (AP) -- The World Trade Organization opened investigations Thursday into a European Union ban on American poultry, and U.S. labeling rules for cattle and hog imports from Canada and Mexico. In a dispute meeting dominated by agriculture, the WTO set up panels to review the poultry and ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- The Army is dropping its appeal of a court ruling related to plans to step up training at Pinon Canyon. The Army appealed a Sept. 8 federal court ruling that said it didn't adequately assess the environmental effects of increasing training at the southeast Colorado si ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 3:34 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina congressman says police got their facts wrong when they denied a messy Capitol Hill protest against corporate hog farms out of concern about spreading swine flu. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge scolde ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 8:04 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Federal and state officials are drafting new strategies to deal with bison coming out of Yellowstone National Park, but still don't have an alternative to periodic slaughters of the iconic Western animal. That's the message in a new report to Congress, prepared afte ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 7:49 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State officials say hunters have reached their limit for killing wolves in a hunting zone in northern Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City zone after hunters reached the quota of 18 wolves for the area. It's t ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:48 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is fighting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's plan to list a rare plant as threatened, saying ranchers are already working with the state to protect it in southwestern Idaho's sage-covered desert. The governor is challenging the listing ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:18 PM
A fungus problem with the potential to create widespread damage to corn crops in the Dakotas for perhaps the first time in memory might not be as ominous as first feared. Initial tests are showing that the corn ear molds that are showing up in North Dakota and South Dakota are not of ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:19 AM
DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado agriculture group and Chaffee County have been allowed to intervene in a lawsuit challenging livestock grazing on about a quarter-million acres on the Pike and San Isabel national forests in south-central Colorado. A federal magistrate Monday approved requests by the C ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:49 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Hunters have almost met the state's 75-animal season quota, so Montana on Monday ended its first public hunt for gray wolves since their removal from the endangered species list. The action came two weeks before the season's scheduled close. Hunting wil ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:18 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission is scheduled to meet in Coeur d'Alene later this week, and a proposal to extend the season in certain areas m ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:48 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service has released a new plan that allows for more poison to be used to control prairie dog populations in parts of Thunder Basin National Grassland. There are an estimated 4,000 acres of black-tailed prairie dog colonies on the 572,000-acre grassland, i ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:48 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Police discovered at least 200,000 marijuana plants in raids during the busy Oregon growing and harvest season that just ended. But that's not all they found. They also came upon jury-rigged irrigation pools filled with chemical fertilizers, causing worr ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:48 AM
. University officials said they were aware of the article and are considering it as they continue their review. Idaho bighorn numbers have dwindled by half since 1990, to about 3,500 animals; many wildlife scientists are convinced contact between domestic sheep and bighorns reintroduced i ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:18 AM
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Thousands of Taiwanese have taken to the streets to protest a government decision to lift a six-year ban on imports of some kinds of U.S. beef. Participants in the opposition-led protest Saturday demanded the government continue to ban bone-in beef, ground beef ...
Monday, November 16, 2009 1:49 PM
The many stories about neglected horses moved Kim Mosiman and veterinarian Scott Hansen to form Sound Equine Options. The group, based in Gresham, Ore., will hold its first clinic on Nov. 17 to euthanize horses for free. It's patterned after similar California groups, sai ...
Sunday, November 15, 2009 12:03 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists reached an agreement Friday that scraps a rule the agency had used to kill or permanently remove any wolf that killed three heads of livestock in a year. Fish and Wildlife spokesman Tom Buckley said the three- ...
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