Operating income of Seaboard Corp.’s Pork segment in the first quarter ended March 30 totaled $32,264,000, down 39 percent from $52,873,000 in the same period a year ago.
In the first forecast for the 2013-14 marketing year, US corn carryover on Sept. 1, 2014, was projected at 2,004 million bushels, up 1,245 million bushels, or 164 percent, from an upwardly revised 759 million bushels in 2013.
President Barack Obama submitted his administration’s budget proposal for fiscal 2014 to Congress on April 10, and requested $4.7 billion for the Food and Drug Administration.
Undeclared allergens, Salmonella, and Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) were the top three food safety incidences reported to the Food and Drug Administration during 2012