Despite some small surprises in the report, the outlook remains positive for hog producers in 2025. Here’s why.

Keep unwanted visitors out by buttoning up your biosecurity measures to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious diseases and pathogens.

The plants will produce beef, pork and poultry, and will mainly use raw materials imported from Brazil.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is now endemic in waterfowl, reassorting and circulating this foreign animal disease that poses an undeniable challenge for the U.S. livestock and poultry industries.

Cash traded feeder pig reported volume was above average with 16,262 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $99.52, down $5.01 per head from last week.

A federal district judge upheld Iowa’s trespass law, concluding the law is constitutional.