Hog Production
The Swine Health Information Center is engaged in investigating Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) and in the development of a convenient test to identify its presence.
To maintain consumer confidence, the pork industry needs to train employees on how to properly give shots so no needles are ever broken.
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a leader in consumer engagement for food and agriculture, has selected Erin Fitzgerald from Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy as its next CEO.
Proposals are now being accepted for grants up to $20,000 to support small-scale projects and pilot studies that address prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury.
If your company’s logo is on your ball cap, your cooler jacket or even your vehicle, you are indeed an ambassador. A walking banner. A representative of your organization.
There is a distinct possibility that we have entered a new “cold tariff-war” that lingers for perhaps years?
Zoetis adds a monovalent swine vaccine with two PCV2 genotypes, Featherlite makes improvements to its new models, and Hypor adds Charlie McKenzie to its sales force.
The Swine Health Information Center is collaborating with USDA Ag Research Service, USDA-APHIS, National Pork Board, and other key researchers to help understand possible pathways to introducing FMD into the U.S.
Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms, writes about how the Pork Care Package program began and the positive impact it has had on Iowa’s service men and women.
Very little positive news is entering the market to support soybean prices. The potential size of the soybean crop and trade uncertainty continue to be the main forces behind soybean price weakness.
Alyssa Cornelison joins Zinpro as a research assistant and Paul Peetz joins the Lely team as milking technology manager.
With more supplies coming online, Seaboard Triumph Foods will start a second shift at its Sioux City plant in October 2018. At full capacity, the plant will employ 2,000 employees and process 21,000 market hogs daily.
The National Pork Producers Council is calling for Thailand’s preferential access to the U.S. market to be revoked or reduced if it does not end its unwarranted ban on U.S. pork.
Talk about extremes: Twin news stories are touting, respectively, saving farm animals by going veggie, and breeding, raising and butchering them in your very own home slaughter operation.
This Florida dairy has been improving the work environment with team building exercises.
Pharmgate adds three new people; TechMix gives back through its internship program.
New employees can come from a variety of backgrounds with varying experience, so it is important for an employer to meet new hires with appropriate expectations and meeting new hires “where they are.”
PRRS costs the swine industry $560 to $660 million annually, with the breeding herd costs accounting for 45% of the total industry cost.
The results of more than 120 agricultural research trials conducted last year at Iowa State University’s Research and Demonstration Farms are available online and can be downloaded at no charge.
The 30th annual World Pork Expo is just around the corner. You’ll find plenty of innovation, education and opportunities for networking at the show, held June 6-8 at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
Belstra Milling was instrumental in starting Fair Oaks Farms, and since Farm Journal’s PORK is featuring Nick DeKryger of Belstra Milling this week, here’s the article Wyatt Bechtel wrote when The Pig Adventure began.
PMI has identified three trends it says may shape the feed additive market, launches the company’s new look and feel; Diamond V’s research team recently welcomed Bucky Gwartney, Director, Protein Food Safety Research.
Pig farmers agree: Losing a market hog hurts. If you don’t have an ileitis prevention plan in place at your finishers, work with your veterinarian to develop one.
While feed and ingredients are not the most likely sources of introduction and transmission, they are a documented vector for disease. Here’s some common Q&As.
You might be scaring job candidates away before they even consider a job in your operation. Watch for these signs.
Eli Lilly & Co.’s Elanco Animal Health Inc. business raised $1.5 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed price range.
Lingering flood waters are making it hard for farmers to recover after Hurricane Florence. Farmers are taking unusual steps to reach hog barns and forcing them to deliver feed through treacherous conditions.
According to results of a recent study at the University of Illinois, pigs are able to digest fiber efficiently, even at high inclusion rates.
In a Raleigh, N.C., courtroom Tuesday, jury selection began in the second of 26 nuisance cases against Smithfield Foods, continuing a campaign to forever change hog production practices in the state.
Rates of depression tend to be higher in rural areas, yet rural residents may have a harder time accessing mental health care. A new $13.3 million study will help get the right treatment to the right patients.