Taking the Hogs and Pigs Report into account, along with USDA’s recent report of intentions to plant 4.6 million fewer corn acres this spring and tighter than expected corn stocks, the pork outlook is fairly bearish.

Pork and beef exports of $18.1 billion in 2023 had a significant impact on the corn and soybean industries, according to an independent study conducted by The Juday Group and released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Whether you’re a seedstock swine producer, a commercial pork producer with internal multiplication, or a farmer purchasing your own breeding stock, here are four steps to implement to facilitate genetic improvement.

Packer and feeder margins continue trending in opposite directions as declining wholesale beef prices erase any improvement packers may have seen from lower cash cattle prices. Pork producer profits steady.

A North Carolina pork producer and NPPC’s Holly Cook presented to members of Congress on the economic and on-farm impacts of California Proposition 12 and Massachusetts Question 3. Here’s why it matters.

EPA’s proposed effluent permitting guidelines for meatpacking plants under the Clean Water Act will significantly disrupt packing capacity and inflict additional severe financial harm on producers, NPPC says.