Beef packers are paying top dollar to get animals bought, with fed cattle prices up 12% in the last three weeks. Hog producers, on the other hand, have watched prices drop and unhedged production is deep in the red.

The University of Illinois is partnering with Perdue Farms and Cornell University on a project to study policy and management approaches to further reduce Salmonella cases linked to raw poultry.

Olymel’s announcement of the closure of its Vallée-Jonction, QC plant is tough news for the industry, the Canadian Pork Council said on Tuesday.

U.S. pork producers continue to face very high production costs and hog prices that are well below breakeven levels. What does this mean for the future? NPPC releases its second quarter pork industry economic update.

China’s first-quarter pork output rose 1.9% from a year earlier to 15.9 million metric tons, the highest quarter in five years, after farmers sold off pigs because of a surge in disease outbreaks.

Zoetis claims it delivered its bird flu vaccine to USDA’s stockpile in 2016, following a bird flu outbreak in 2015; however, the company says USDA never tapped into the stockpile.