Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 4,840 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $80.81, down $12.32 per head from last week.

Chinese buyers bought 1.36 million tonnes of U.S. corn, matching their seventh biggest ever purchase of U.S. supplies of the grain, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Friday.

After a two-year hiatus, NPPC president Jen Sorenson says she couldn’t be more excited for the World Pork Expo, the industry’s hallmark event. Here’s a look at this year’s seminar line-up.

The plan is now called “America the Beautiful,” and is a 10 year, locally-led and voluntary nationwide effort to conserve, connect and restore 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by the year 2030.

A tradition for more than 100 years will now be a thing of the past. The CME Group announced this week it’s not reopening the open outcry pits on the trading floor, which means the tradition will be gone for good.

An ASF virus vaccine candidate has been adapted to grow in a cell line, which means those involved in vaccine production will no longer have to rely on live pigs and their fresh cells for vaccine production.