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The Unintended Consequences of Prop 12: Consumers Brace for Pork Price Hikes in California
The Unintended Consequences of Prop 12: Consumers Brace for Pork Price Hikes in California

Potential pork supply issues and price increases loom over lower-income consumers.

What’s Driving Farmers’ Opinions on Electric Trucks?
What’s Driving Farmers’ Opinions on Electric Trucks?

Would you buy one? Check out what farmers had to say after Ford’s F-150 Lightning announcement.

PORK, Drovers Recognized for Editorial Excellence
PORK, Drovers Recognized for Editorial Excellence

Farm Journal publications honored for editorial excellence by the Livestock Publications Council.

Election Guide: What The Election Means for Farmers and Ranchers
Election Guide: What The Election Means for Farmers and Ranchers

Who will lead the house ag committee? Is a split government good for agriculture? Get the latest election coverage here.

Farm Journal Field Days Harvest Edition: Succession Planning and More Live Oct. 20 at 8 a.m.
Farm Journal Field Days Harvest Edition: Succession Planning and More Live Oct. 20 at 8 a.m.

From the Do’s and Don’ts of Succession Planning to the Pro Farmer Harvest Report, Farm Journal Field Days Harvest Edition starts now.

Farm Journal Field Days Launches Harvest Edition
Farm Journal Field Days Launches Harvest Edition

Join us now for new early riser sessions on input buying, grain storage, how to build your own planter and more every Tuesday at 8 a.m. Central.

Farm Journal Field Days
Mix a Cocktail With Us at Farm Journal Field Days

Join us in the Field Days Beer Garden for great conversation and a lesson on cocktails.

Sneak Peek: How To Navigate Farm Journal Field Days
Sneak Peek: How To Navigate Farm Journal Field Days

Check out the free modern farm show, Farm Journal Field Days.

Choose Your Own Adventure at Farm Journal Field Days
Choose Your Own Adventure at Farm Journal Field Days

Take this quick quiz to set your own agenda for Farm Journal Field Days.

Listen Up! Great Ag Content on the Go
Listen Up! Great Ag Content on the Go

You’re busy. We get it. Listen on-the-go to the Farm Journal Intel podcast—the latest insights from our webinars and content streams to inform and inspire your way of life.

Overhe(a)rd: Gen Z Farmers and Trump’s Packing Plant Executive Order
Overhe(a)rd: Gen Z Farmers and Trump’s Packing Plant Executive Order

Pork and beef producers brace as plants work to stay open.

ASF Offers Opportunities for Pork Exports
ASF Offers Opportunities for Pork Exports

As all eyes focus on African swine fever’s deliberate spread throughout Asia, what does this mean for U.S. pork producers?

PORK, Drovers Honored at LPC Awards
PORK, Drovers Honored at LPC Awards

Farm Journal publications honored for editorial excellence at Agricultural Media Summit in Minneapolis.

Bulletproof Your Hog Farm from Activists

Security experts share four tips to educate consumers and protect your pig farm from activists.

Overhe(a)rd: Trust In Food and How to Respond to PETA
Overhe(a)rd: Trust In Food and How to Respond to PETA

Nate Birt, Trust In Food, shares how agriculture is working to develop deeper connections. Security experts Jim Rovers and Sophie Cranley explore how farms can respond to organizations like PETA.

Overhe(a)rd: ASF 101, Protect the Farm from Activists and Bacon Trucks
Overhe(a)rd: ASF 101, Protect the Farm from Activists and Bacon Trucks

What makes some farms targets for undercover activists? What should I tell my neighbor about African Swine Fever? These questions and more are answered on episode 2 of Overhe(a)rd, the Farm Journal Livestock podcast.

Overhe(a)rd: Fair Oaks Farms, Meat the Millennial and Shrinking Farms

This first episode of Overhe(a)rd, the Farm Journal Livestock podcast, examines the latest topics in livestock news.

Mental Health Issues on the Rise with Younger Farmers

Younger rural adults reported experiencing more mental health challenges now than a year ago, according to an April 2019 rural stress poll conducted for the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Food Animal Vets: We Need You
Food Animal Vets: We Need You

Ready to be at the forefront of technology and food animal medicine? 

Livestock Farmers Exempt from Routine Emissions Reporting

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizes rule to exempt livestock producers from reporting routine emissions to state and local authorities.

Help Consumers Understand Why We Use Antibiotics in Pigs
Help Consumers Understand Why We Use Antibiotics in Pigs

Bridge the gap with consumers who don’t understand the need for antibiotics.

Mitigating ASF in Feed Critical to U.S. Biosecurity 
Mitigating ASF in Feed Critical to U.S. Biosecurity 

Alltech, Pipestone and Cornerstone announce collaboration on feed intervention to improve biosecurity. 

As farmers and producers, you can share your knowledge to help people feed their families. 
How Farmers Can Help Our Obese and Starving World

Dietician Nikki Putnam Badding explains the hunger obesity paradox and what farmers can do to help at the Alltech One Ideas Conference. 

Failure, fear, fire and faith are the cornerstones to success, Grylls says at 2019 Alltech One conference.
Dear Ag: Here’s Your Pep Talk from Bear Grylls

Failure, fear, fire and faith are the cornerstones to success, Grylls says at 2019 Alltech One conference.

What is One Health certification? And why should you care? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers from Don Ritter, DVM.
One Health Certification: Coming Soon to a Hog Farm Near You

What is One Health certification? And why should you care? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

Rain Drain: Farm Journal Readers Pummeled by Flooding, Page 2

Data from Farm Journal and the United States Geological Service show the scope of farmers affected by flooding.

Polled PORK: What Attracts Young People to the Swine Industry?
Polled PORK: What Attracts Young People to the Swine Industry?

We asked, you answered. Here’s why the under 35 set chose pork production as a career path.

The data was five years in the making. What will it tell us about farms, farming and farmers?
5 Questions We Hope the 2017 Census of Ag Will Answer

The data was five years in the making. What will it tell us about farms, farming and farmers?

How old are your employees? Take the poll.
How Old Are Your Employees?

The future of pork depends on developing a younger workforce.

Bridge the Gap Between Animal Welfare and Wellbeing
Bridge the Gap Between Animal Welfare and Wellbeing

If you’re terrified of the day when an activist turns the spotlight on you, read on.

How to Attract Youths to Agriculture
How to Attract Youths to Agriculture

Miriam Martin says she draws her inspiration from being a farm kid, and her upbringing was a gift. Now she wants to pass on that gift to others.

From PORK: Cannabis in U.S. Agriculture
From PORK: Cannabis in U.S. Agriculture

As cannabis in the form of industrial hemp receives crop status in the 2018 farm bill and a growing number of states have legalized medical marijuana and industrial hemp production, who will meet the need?

How to Make a Bacon Bouquet
How to Make a Bacon Bouquet

Say "I love you" with this tasty treat.

Livestock Producers: Do You Drug Test?
Livestock Producers: Do You Drug Test?

We asked livestock producers with employees about their drug testing policies. Here's what we learned.

Perdue Answers Buzz on Hemp in Animal Feed

Will hemp lead to happier cows? It’s too early to say, says Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue.

Our Incredible Vanishing Farmland
Our Incredible Vanishing Farmland

John Piotti of American Farmland Trust has dedicated his career to preserving rural farms and the local economies they support in the Northeast, and now he’s taking his message to the rest of the United States.

Hey there! We left our butcher certificate in our other apron, so remember this is for illustrative purposes only.
Polled Pork: What’s Your Favorite Pork Cut?

We asked, you answered. We’re not trying to make you hangry here, but any way you slice it, the other white meat serves up some of the tastiest morsels known to man.

<p>Here are some of the most concerning, telling and outlandish statements from the 2018 Animal Rights National Conference.&nbsp;</p>
Top 10 Concerning Statements From Animal Rights Activists

Here are some of the most concerning, telling and outlandish statements made at the 2018 Animal Rights National Conference.

Check out these top PORK headlines of the week
ICYMI: Pork Smuggling, Hurricane Heroes and ASF

Check out these top PORK headlines of the week

<p>Breaking: Hurricane Florence Updates</p>
Breaking: Hurricane Florence Updates

Get the latest news on the monster storm

Senator Pat Roberts hosts Homeland Security Secretary Kierstjen Nielsen at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.
Vaccine Bank Still Planned as Part of 2018 Farm Bill

Senator Pat Roberts signals support for funding animal health center this year.

<p>Here are some of the most concerning, telling and outlandish statements from the 2018 Animal Rights National Conference.&nbsp;</p>
Top 10 Concerning Statements From Animal Rights Activists, Page 2

Here are some of the most concerning, telling and outlandish statements made at the 2018 Animal Rights National Conference.