Agricultural producers face many pressures and challenges. With a growing population that will demand more food, and a strained climate that requires attention and adjustment of practices, it is difficult to know right from wrong and fact from fiction.

Pork producers can find technology solutions that are not only easy enough for most personnel to use, but also sophisticated enough to control practically all functions across multiple rooms. Below are five big tech trends helping to make this possible.

Although wastewater treatment plants are good at reducing nutrient pollutants in water, they aren’t designed to remove pharmaceuticals and personal care products. So antibiotics, hormones, and other drugs are sent back into streams and onto crop fields.

Farming is tough. For Jenna Siegel Meteer of Bement, Ill., creating her own cookbook was a little way she could help farm families thrive during planting and harvest and stock show families survive state fair season.

Ten $2,500 scholarships are awarded annually to college students with aspirations to become pork industry leaders.

John R. Tyson, Tyson Foods Inc.'s heir, pled guilty to drunken driving and other charges after his arrest in June.