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Jennifer Shike

As the brand leader of Farm Journal’s PORK and host of “The PORK Podcast,” Jennifer Shike pairs her deep animal science expertise with a heart for the people in the pork industry. Her work is a vital resource on swine health and biosecurity, reporting on threats such as PRRS, PED and African swine fever. By keeping a close watch on national and state policy, she translates trade deals, California’s Proposition 12, environmental regulations and farm bill updates into what they mean for American pork producers.

Latest Stories
Not only has ASF rocked China’s pork supply, but pork prices more than doubled to reach record levels. A new report investigates the degree to which China’s reduced pork supply affected pork-exporting countries.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul saved the life of Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst during a closed-door Republican party launch last Thursday.
Sen. Josh Hawley introduces the Protecting Interstate Commerce for Livestock Producers Act to protect farmers from costly regulations – made in other states – that will hurt their business and drive-up consumer costs.
A Rock Rapids, Iowa, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to manipulating weights of hogs in order to defraud pork producers.
It was a seasonally quiet week in grocery store meat departments and up the distribution chain for turkeys and hams, reports Steiner Consulting Group in the Daily Livestock Report. Here’s a look at pork, turkey and beef.
U.S. agriculture had a $2.4 billion trade deficit in 2022, its first shortfall since 1959. NPPC joined more than 30 ag organizations in this ask to the President’s Export Council.
Illinois pork producers step up to donate roughly 50,000 pounds of ground pork to regional food banks in the state.
“We got fat and lazy,” Tyson Foods Inc.’s leader candidly shared about his company’s underperformance in an interview following the opening of Tyson’s new $300 million plant in Virginia, Bloomberg reported.
The National Pork Board and Showpig announced a strategic partnership to enhance and support the show pig industry on Wednesday at the Legends and Dreamers Showpig Summit held in Nashville, Tenn.
The U.S. pork industry has learned its lesson about paying attention to disease outbreaks in other countries. That’s why a new website has been created about Japanese Encephalitis Virus that wreaked havoc in Australia.