Industry
The USDA’s quarterly Hogs and Pigs report is due out Thursday.
Pork producers call for USDA oversight of gene-edited livestock.
A lawsuit has been filed to shift Smithfield Foods settlement money towards school funding in North Carolina instead of improving the environment.
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Don’t expect a big change in hog prices in the short term, but barring major increases in production, producers should see an uptick as the year progresses. Here’s what to keep your eyes on.
A tractor trailer in Iowa tipped over in Iowa with 150 pigs inside.
Record kill weights for hogs created more product.
Canadian Swine Health Board says it will work with the industry to prevent the spread of the disease.
Farmers can’t keep up and rising costs can boost inflation.
From the Renewable Fuels Standard to risk management, it’s time to get serious about developing a marketing strategy for this year.
With hog prices seeing 7-year lows, could things return to the way they were in 1998?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the number of hogs and pigs in the state is up 5 percent from the same time last year.
Bitter cold temperatures are on the way, and they will move the livestock cold stress index into the emergency category for a prolonged period.
USDA quarterly survey likely to show stockpiles at 6-year high.
Polk County deputies are taking care of nearly 200 farm animals, including more than 100 pigs, they say had been living in deplorable conditions at a rescue ranch in central Florida.
The Czech government is working to remove a communist-era pig farm from the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Roma, Cabinet ministers said on Tuesday.
The state Department of Health has issued an approval to operate permit for a 9,000-hog farm near the southeastern North Dakota town of Buffalo.
Opponents of a hog farm near the Buffalo National River have filed a federal lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and the farm, asking a judge to allow a scientist consulting detractors to be present during a study of the site.
The muddy tradition of hog wrestling has continued at some county fairs in Indiana this summer though proceeds were down in at least one county.
Prestage Farms will build new $240 million hog processing plant in Wright County after an earlier plan to build in Mason City failed.
We talked to pork industry leaders about domestic and international demand for the meat and the hurdles the industry is working through to make sure the world eats more pork.
A national pork supplier promised Thursday to investigate abuse allegations at one of its Nebraska facilities after an animal rights group released an undercover video showing pigs with open wounds and other health problems.
On Wednesday, PORK Network made The Maschhoffs, one of the nation’s largest pork producers, aware of undercover video footage alleging animal abuse at one of its breeding facilities in Nebraska. The video was released by the activist group Animal Legal Defense Fund.
Plans to expand a pig farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania are moving forward.
Millions of cattle and hogs fatten up at Kansas’ more than 1,750 large-scale livestock feedlots, yet the state regulatory agency entrusted with overseeing those confined feeding operations has no full-time professional environmental engineers at the moment.
For Nate and LouAnn Robinson of Jake’s Country Meats in Cass County, Mich., the supply and demand situation doesn’t matter: Their prices for their pasture-raised pork stay the same.
Hogs have been among the rare bull markets in agriculture for the past five months, but some indicators suggest that strength is waning, says Craig VanDyke, Top Third Ag Marketing.
A recent Reuters news article reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking action to revoke approval of carbadox, a drug used to control bacterial diseases in pigs.
A North Las Vegas pig farm famous for recycling leftover casino buffet food is soon going up for auction.
South Africa’s driest weather in more than a century has destroyed more than 5 percent of the nation’s cattle and pork-breeding herds, fueling food prices and hitting jobs, lawmakers heard on Tuesday.