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Live From Pork Week - Merck Animal Health’s Sterling Meyer, Swine Sales Representative.
Live From Pork Week, Hypor’s Bryce Martin, General Manager USA
One of the few silver linings to COVID-19 is consumers realized or remembered how much they love pork.
Dr. Scott Stehlik discusses how Merck Animal Health continues to keep customers and producers a priority. Watch now and be sure to stop by Merck’s booth V125 at the World Pork Expo June 9-11, 2021.
Industry and academic swine nutritionists will gather on the Iowa State University campus on August 11 and 12 for the International Conference on Swine Nutrition.
Kansas State University officials say a new swine facility that opened in late May will give students experience with facilities that closely represent what they will see in their future workplace.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed, overloaded, scattered? Generally, pandemic or not, leaders feel at least a little bit this way all the time, explains leadership coach Marlene Eick. She says the question is, is this ok?
High feed prices. The ongoing global spread of African swine fever. Trade challenges. There certainly is no shortage of potential supply-chain disrupters for the pork industry in a post-COVID-19 world.
After a two-year hiatus, NPPC president Jen Sorenson says she couldn’t be more excited for the World Pork Expo, the industry’s hallmark event. Here’s a look at this year’s seminar line-up.
“Suck it up buttercup.” This familiar phrase is one many farmers and ranchers learn early in life: be tough, self-reliant and resilient. But experts say that approach doesn’t work when dealing with stress.
Proper arch position is important for the good lower extremity alignment necessary to minimize lower body stress and fatigue and to decrease the risk of injury.
It started with a broken baler. The farmer panicked. He had recently lost his brother to cancer and his father to old age. Not to mention he had 2,500 acres to farm, 250 beef cows to attend to and his crop just froze.
Health insurance coverage and healthcare costs are among the greatest challenges for self-employed Americans, including farmers.
The Ohio Expositions Commission announced that the 2021 Ohio State Fair will not be open to the public, and will instead focus on agricultural and educational competitions for exhibitors, their families and guests.
Utilizing an effective management team can help you. As the owner or leader of your business, spend less time on the non-urgent and non-important tasks or duties that pop up every day.
Failure is a part of life, but how we bounce back from it determines how successful we will become.
The only certainty during spring planting is uncertainty. Farmers face many challenges: too much rain, too little rain, long hours, crop diseases and pests, machinery breakdowns.
Why don’t we finish goals? Jon Acuff, best-selling author and motivational speaker, says we often focus on the wrong thing when we talk about our goals. Here’s what he says it takes to finish the goals that matter.
When the supply chain faced unprecedented challenges causing unpredictable markets and temporarily bare grocery store shelves, Jared Achen and Katie Olthoff were able to turn an obstacle into an opportunity.
Recipients of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation/Merck Animal Health Veterinary Student Scholarships were announced on March 1 at the AASV Annual Meeting.
“If you can manage these moments, the world is yours,” says Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry.
Whether you take one bold leap, or several steady plodding steps, John Phipps says both can take us to a better place.
No one wants to waste food, especially pork, but how do you know when it’s been in the refrigerator too long? Janeal Yancey, a meat scientist at the University of Arkansas, weighs in on meat color and food safety.
Everyone knows pigs are smart, but this takes smart to a new level. Four pigs learned how to manipulate a joystick in order to control a cursor on a computer monitor, Purdue University researchers report.
How Selecting Nutrition Suppliers Can Improve Your Bottom Line
Here’s what some of our friends in the pork industry are fixing for the second biggest “food holiday” of the year. When you’ve got Super Bowl snacks this good, it doesn’t matter which team wins!
During the month of February, the Illinois Pork Producers Association is launching a 4-week video series to fill the void of no in-person pork expo this month.
As the winter temperatures settle in, make sure you are keeping your 4-H animal projects healthy. Follow these four steps to help them perform their best this winter.
Join this webinar to learn how the research behind enzymes impacts their effectiveness in optimizing feed efficiency and performance in monogastric diets.
Connect with our webinar where experts discuss how to get the best value when you choose water as your method of antibiotic delivery.