Industry
African Swine Fever was first reported in China, August 3, 2018.
Several approaches are being implemented around the world to stop the spread of African swine fever.
African Swine Fever is having major implications on hog markets and soybean markets.
Researchers continue to study African Swine Fever to gain a better understanding of how it spreads.
African Swine Fever could have a lasting impact on the Chinese hog herd. John Phipps explains in John’s World.
Farmers can expect a few bright spots in 2019. Net farm income, as well as prices for key crops, are projected to be slightly higher in 2019. But longer-term projections don’t show positive outcomes.
Are you interested in the future of pork production, new technologies, or want to be a leader in the pork industry and are still in high school? Then the 2019 University of Missouri Pork Institute is your answer.
David Hollier’s legacy leaves a network of pig producers from Europe to Australia, China to South America.
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians Foundation awarded scholarships totaling $25,000 to 15 top veterinary students.
If bacon is the candy of meat, lard is the butter. At least it used to be. But the old cooking staple is making a comeback, after a century of questions about saturated fat.
Police arrested five employees of Wayne Farms, the sixth largest vertically integrated poultry producer and processor in the U.S., after the company uncovered a payroll fraud scheme costing the company nearly $100,000.
China’s 400 million pigs may not have to go on such a stringent diet after all.
Major poultry and meat companies are starting to resume operations in the Carolinas as the torrential rains and flooding unleashed by Hurricane Florence start to subside.
One of the American Airlines pilots on a plane hijacked on 9-11 was a farmer from Massachusetts. AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths shared the story of John Ogonowski and his family on the 10th anniversary of the attack.
Mandatory evacuations were imposed for parts of three East Coast states Tuesday as millions of Americans prepared for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent net farm income projection from February pegs income to fall to a 12-year low at $59.5 billion.
Explore options such as wildlife habitat, wetlands, solar or wind production, mineral development and conservation easement to diversify land use and generate additional revenue.
USDA says the U.S. has record or near record crops in the nation’s corn and soybean fields. What will the 2018 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop tour find next week?
It’s been hot and steamy across the Corn Belt the past couple weeks, but as you drive down the I-55 corridor, uniform fields show promise for a record corn crop in 2018.
Farm Journal wants to help you address your agronomic management and technology use this season with its 2018 Yield Tour program.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting a 75-percent chance that the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season will be near- or above-normal.
The landscape of the food industry is changing.
An alarming increase in global temperatures from Earth’s changing climate could bring an unexpected benefit for U.S. farmers who grow corn, the nation’s biggest crop.
While it may be hard to believe, the ag economy is showing signs of improvement.
As is so often the case, technical action (price changes) can predict fundamental changes in price direction market, and often does sometimes weeks in advance.
Last week’s “The Rest of the Story” ended with thinking there would be a surprise(s) in last Thursday’s report. There were surprises on all accounts: acreage of corn and soybeans as well as stocks as of March 1.
Federal Reserve officials, meeting for the first time under Chairman Jerome Powell, raised the benchmark lending rate a quarter-point and forecast a steeper path of hikes in 2019 and 2020.
The U.S. economic growth is strengthening and unemployment continues to trend downward, with the result being the Federal Reserve is likely to announce its first interest rate increase of 2018 today