AMI’s Janet Riley shares lessons learned by LFTB controversy

DALLAS -- As the beef industry recovers from the recent media-driven uproar over "pink slime," beef producers and marketers are assessing how the firestorm over lean finely textured beef happened and what they can do to prevent it from recurring.

1. Infrastructure limits ag export growth, economist says
2. Beetles, housefly larvae open new frontier in animal feed sector
3. Oil pressured by Bernanke comments, crude stocks up
4. A visit with CBB member Chris Hutton, President of Sampco
5. Global food: Waste not, want not
6. Repainting “American Gothic:” Number of women farming triples

1. Will Smith dethroned in latest Peterson Farm Bros. parody
2. 3,000 pounds of copper wire stolen from Oklahoma ranch
3. Changes in U.S.-Mexican cattle and beef trade
4. Crude oil expected to peak and cost of electricity to go down
5. Peterson Brothers: What summer vacation?
6. 2100: 11 billion mouths to feed

1. COOL isn’t working
2. Feedyard margins a train wreck, packers cozy
3. Will Smith dethroned in latest Peterson Farm Bros. parody
4. New ads emphasize agriculture’s role in economic recovery
5. 2100: 11 billion mouths to feed
6. New tools emerging to measure soil health