Today, USDA announced a pilot program to allow more cattle producers and meat processors to access better markets through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) official beef quality grading and certification. The Remote Grading Pilot for Beef, developed by @USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service AMS, matches simple technology with robust data management and program oversight to allow a USDA grader to assess beef carcass characteristics and assign the official quality grade from a remote loc

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Four things you avoid when you choose food with the organic label 🏷️ 🛒🥕🍎 A reminder to buy organic whenever you can because organic food CANNOT be grown using dried sewage sludge fertilizer (termed “biosolids”) aka whatever was flushed down the toilet. 💩💊🚽☣️ To be clear, the organic food standard should be the BARE MINIMUM standard for the food in our grocery stores and NOT a certification for which we pay extra. 🎗️💰 We should be working our way up from the floor of organic and reaching