As much as everyone loves Thanksgiving, it can be a little overwhelming getting family together. If politics or the pork market start to come up in conversation, try this to help lighten the mood.

The Nov. 30 deadline on the Time-Limited Trial for New Swine Inspection System plants is approaching. USDA’s inaction is failing the pork industry, says the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.

It’s Thanksgiving week, and special meals are being planned and prepared across the country. What’s on the menu at your celebration?

A semi-trailer hauling 1,900 piglets overturned on Friday near Dayton, Ohio. Body camera footage showed troopers responding to the call.

Taiwan notified the World Trade Organization on Sept. 28 that it was invoking volume-based special safeguards on imports of pork belly, according to the latest USDA FAS GAIN report.

Fewer unique genotypes than the ASF research community first believed means there is less diversity of ASF virus affecting communities across the globe, USDA researchers say.