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Traps. Drones. Sharpshooters. Missouri officials are doing everything they can to control its feral hog population.
Hurricane Ida hammered southeast Louisiana, as the Category 4 storm came with 150 mph winds. And as the system moves across the U.S., meteorologist Mike Hoffman says some areas could experience significant rainfall.
Each week, Paul Neiffer visits with a farmer or someone involved in the ag industry on “The Farm CPA Podcast,” brought to you by Top Producer.
Farmland values continue to increase and are nearing levels not seen in eight years, according to a recent report from Farm Credit Services of America.
Cheyenne McEndaffer, USMEF director of export services, explains that sustainability is an issue of growing importance to international customers of U.S. red meat and other key global audiences.
The National Swine Registry and American Berkshire Association announced that all association events will be held collaboratively starting Jan. 1.
In the past 40 years, the swine industry has made incredible progress by coming together to fight foreign animal disease introduction from multiple angles. Paul Sundberg, DVM, says we can’t stop now.
When a storm is brewing on the horizon, you don’t wait until it strikes to close all the open windows. You figure out which windows are open and start closing them one by one until the house is secure.
USDA announced its intent to designate Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as a “protection zone,” a World Organization for Animal Health designation. Here’s what that means for the U.S. pork industry.
The global swine industry has changed dramatically in the past four decades. Experts say those changes will play an important role in our country’s fight to keep African swine fever out of the U.S.
The price collapse in China surprised everyone, Rabobank analysts say in the company’s Pork Quarterly Q3 report. Analysts share six reasons why global pork trade is facing big swings.
Canadian pork producers are urging political candidates to commit to policies that will support a value chain with significant growth potential, including extra attention to diseases like ASF and foot-and-mouth disease.
It’s no wonder Michael Smith wasn’t comfortable with pursuing a career in agriculture when he started college at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo.
Officials in Iowa recently approved incentives for Tyson Foods to assist the company with renovations on the kill floor of its pork plant in Columbus Junction, Iowa.
Efforts to control the feral pig population in Oklahoma are ahead of last year, USDA reports.
Reports of African swine fever outbreaks around the world are picking up. Bulgarian authorities reported an ASF outbreak on a commercial farm with 13,000 pigs in the central village of Apriltsi.
The Philippines’ agriculture ministry says active cases of African swine fever are declining and confined to less than 1% of the nearly 3,000 villages that recorded outbreaks since the first cases detected in 2019.
Since a late July outbreak of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Nanjing, the Chinese government has imposed strict countermeasures in affected areas in an effort to contain the virus.
In the science of biology, prevention is your best measure against disease.
Pat Joyce, president of Standard Nutrition Services, shares his views on mentoring, leadership, strategy and what he’s learned during his career in this exclusive Farm Journal’s PORK Q&A.
China’s sow herd declined for the first time in nearly two years, contracting 0.5% in July from the previous month, state media said, after a plunge in hog prices pushed many farmers to get rid of unproductive sows.
JBS says it seeks opportunities for acquisitions and expansion, but two U.S. senators are calling on the U.S. Treasury Secretary to open an investigation into the Brazilian meatpacker.
Shipping issues continue to surface. The latest is in China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan container port, which is the third-busiest in the world, and has been partially shut down for six days, with no sign of reopening yet.
In an effort to help employers protect workers from COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued updated guidance for meat industry workers, among others.
The village’s fire chief say the brothers were fixing a manure pump before they passed out from the fumes.
A once-a-century drought has lowered the water level of Argentina’s main grains transport river, reducing farm exports and boosting logistics costs in a trend that meteorologists said will likely continue into 2022.
Proper bait placement and monitoring help keep rats and mice at bay.
Western wildfires continue to rage in the west, as California’s biggest wildfire is leading to widespread evacuations of livestock. And now there are efforts underway to care for animals left behind.
A 250-pound 4-H pig sold for $17,500 at the Monroe County Fair in Ottawa Lake, Mich., on Aug. 6. This pig wasn’t just any pig – it was the pig of 18-year-old Madison Lee, who was killed in a car accident on Aug. 1.
Pork producers can rest assured that U.S. Customs and Border Protection ag inspectors have been and are continuing to focus “all hands on deck” to protect U.S. borders from foreign animal diseases. Here’s why.