The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the Meat Institute’s challenge to California’s 2018 ballot initiative that imposes new standards for animal housing.

In USDA’s Dec. 1 Quarterly Hogs & Pigs Report, analysts said the decline of the breeding herd stood out as one of the more important numbers, and spoke to the uncertainty of overall supplies for summer and fall 2021.

Agricultural economists shared their forecast prices for the next several quarters following the Dec. 23 announcement of the Dec. 1 Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report in a teleconference funded by the Pork Checkoff.

Chet and Cassie Mogler open up about their journey to become foster parents and how they are sharing the gift of farm life.

“I’m not sure what’s going to happen,” South Dakota pig farmer Steve Rommereim confided to his friend Scott Phillips, a pig farmer in Missouri. “It’s bad. Real bad.”

Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Wednesday thought she was talking to Smithfield CEO Dennis Organ, while in reality she was being punked by animal activist Matt Johnson of Direct Action Everywhere.