Manufacturing challenges have made Vitamin E difficult to find and afford for some producers.

When you’re feeling sick, you want to feel better. Pigs should have that opportunity as well, says Brian Payne, DVM. A secondary benefit is that they produce better.

There’s no question swine genetics are becoming increasingly complex. Although few traits have decreased in importance in recent years, geneticists pinpoint survival and robustness as key areas of increasing importance.

All of the work pork producers do is for nothing if they don’t have a consumer on the back end who desires to purchase, eat and repeat purchase the product, says David Newman with the National Pork Board.

With nearly half a billion in ag research funding at stake, according to data from former USAID contractor Jordan Schermerhorn, labs around the country are facing personnel layoffs, at best, and shutdown of hundreds of research projects, at worst.

The outbreak, discovered in the city of Gyor, is the first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease outbreak reported since 1973.