Despite rising pork prices in recent months, retail and carcass prices in the U.S. are still relatively low when compared with prices in other countries, says Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University economist.

It’s a real struggle to find people with good stockmanship skills who want to work in livestock production, said Caleb Shull, director of research and innovation for The Maschhoffs during a recent Farm Country Update.

Britain’s pig industry said it faces collapse after an exodus of east European workers led to a shortage of butchers and a backlog in slaughtering more than 170,000 pigs.

Chef Chad Myers of Bellevue, Iowa takes home first place in the Taste competition held at the 2022 Iowa Pork Congress, featuring the special ingredient ground pork in his Mexican street tacos.

Kevin Rasmussen, a pig farmer from Humboldt County, Iowa, took over the reins as the Iowa Pork Producers Association president during the Iowa Pork Congress. I sat down with him to find out more about IPPA’s new leader.

A round-up of company news in the swine industry.