U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, S.D., are moving a bill in the Senate, designed to pressure international ocean freight companies to fill freight “containers” with agricultural products instead of sending them back to Asia empty. Rick Brandenburger, president of Richland Innovative Food Crops Inc., Inc., of Breckenridge, Minnesota, says the company is getting only one-third of their needed containers. They want “teeth” in any efforts to fix the problem.
This week on AgweekTV, high path avian influenza continues to spread. We'll look at the impact. USDA announces disaster relief for livestock producers. A container shortage that affects specialty crops has gotten worse in the last six months. And we feature a cattle operation that's perfected BetterFed Beef.