Environmental researcher Frank Mitloehner says it’s time farmers recognize sustainability is just another word for stewardship, and sharing that message is important to consumers.

The Meat Institute says the proposed rule change to the Packers and Stockyards Act is attempting to set meat production back by encouraging litigation and limiting how livestock producers can market animals to packers.

Major pork and dairy exporter Denmark plans to introduce a tax on livestock carbon dioxide emissions. This would make Denmark the first to initiate a CO2 tax on agriculture and it hopes to inspire others to follow.

New proposed USDA rule will better protect farmers, ranchers, and other covered market participants by making clearer how prohibitions on unfair practices will be enforced under the Packers and Stockyards Act.

DNA Genetics announced its recent investment in a 2,000-head commercial sow research farm, which will be home to its ongoing research to improve sow productivity and welfare.

Understanding the impact of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae on reproductive performance and retention of gilts could be very beneficial to the U.S. pork industry, says Lindsey Britton of North Carolina State University.