policy

PoultryCast 0232 Show Notes:

• Estate tax concerns focus on 2011 roll-back, if action isn't taken.  American Farm Bureau Federation Tax Policy Specialist Pat Wolff explains we may still see action but if not, the tax clock roles back ten years come January 1.  You need to talk to your congressman because you really don't want that to happen.

PoultryCast^® Conversations

Why Agro-Terrorism Is Limited

David Silverberg, Founding Editor of Homeland Security Today magazine, responds to the audience question of why the food supply has not been targeted.

PoultryCast 0222 Show Notes:

• John Simpson, partner at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, discusses recent rulings and explains strategies for dealing with activist lawsuits.

PoultryCast 0221 Show Notes:

• David Silverberg, Founding Editor of Homeland Security Today magazine, responds to the audience question of why the food supply has not been targeted. 

U.S. Poultry will return to Russia after negotiators agreed to provide supplies which had not been treated with a chlorine rinse to reduce Salmonella. The story was covered in the St. Petersburg Times.

It’s interesting to note the article mentions the renewed effort to increase domestic meat production in Russia. “President Dmitry Medvedev signed a new 'food security' doctrine in February, calling for, among other things, 85 percent of all meat consumed in the country to be produced domestically. In January, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia would be able to cease all poultry imports by 2015.” There are, of course, many forms of trade restrictions.