The swine industry has historically battled labor shortages, and COVID-19 amplified those challenges. Here are a few tips for attending farrowing I learned working on a sow farm with labor challenges.

When it comes time to deliver hard or important news, it’s best-done face to face. We asked five leading experts in the industry what they would tell a producer if they had a chance to sit down with them face to face.

It wasn’t easy. But restaurant owner Jeannie Kim found a way to keep her business alive when the pandemic struck. Just when things seemed to be getting better, a new threat reared its ugly head—Proposition 12.

In a letter to Ag Sec. Tom Vilsack, the North American Meat Institute asks the administration to stop ignoring “fundamental principles of supply and demand” and acknowledge industry structure is not causing inflation.

Agriculture associations urge President Biden to address ocean carrier practices causing increased costs and delays for American businesses as “the problem not only persists, but is becoming more dire.”

The forecast for 2021 total red meat and poultry production is lowered from last month, USDA said in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report on Sept. 10.