Industry
Former North Carolina Pork Council CEO Andy Curliss will join the National Pork Producers Council as vice president of strategic engagement, effective April 22.
A new study debunks plant-based meat analogue product claims to be healthier for your diet than real meat.
Alltech announced a new marketing structure designed to better serve both the company’s customers and the needs of its internal teams
More than 200 meat and poultry plants were recognized by The Meat Institute at the 2024 Environmental, Labor and Safety+ Conference in New Orleans for their positive environmental impact efforts.
There’s now a 60% chance La Niña will develop between June and August and an 85% chance it’s in effect by November 2024 to January 2025, according to NOAA.
It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are trending up.
Danish Crown will close one of its major slaughterhouses in Denmark and lay off nearly 1,200 employees by mid-September this year.
The Iowa Pork Producers Association invites Iowans to nominate their favorite restaurant for the 22nd annual Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin Contest.
An Iowa company must close its two pig-buying stations in South Dakota for 15 days as part of its punishment for defrauding livestock producers and farmers in Iowa.
Unrelenting inflation continues to weigh down the U.S. economy and agriculture. Still, CoBank says it believes the Fed will stick with its decision to cut interest rates three times in 2024.
The Loeffel Meat Shoppe at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is re-opening on May 3 with a celebration you won’t want to miss.
China’s pork output eased in January-March from a year earlier, the first quarterly decline in nearly four years, as farmers slaughtered fewer pigs to support a recovery in hog prices.
dsm-firmenich announced the renewal of the European Union authorization for Hy-D for ruminants and renewal in pigs and poultry.
Defining the U.S. regions at greatest risk for JEV is an important step towards U.S. prevention and preparedness as well as allocation of efforts for surveillance.
A string of pork thefts are turning truckers’ heads. On April 10, more than $12,000 worth of pork was stolen from a tractor-trailer parked overnight in northeast Philadelphia.
Catch the soulful flavor of pork. Celebra tu cultura y Ponle Pork a tu vida. Why is the Pork Checkoff focused on creating messages like this focused on the multicultural consumer more than ever right now?
Now that the mystery illness impacting some dairy herds has been revealed as the same strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza that has been impacting the U.S. poultry flock, pork producers are asking questions.
Renewal of the Global Swine Disease Monitoring Reports means the program will continue and expand in 2024 with a new online dashboard to display the global distribution of priority swine diseases in near real-time.
When you walk into a Tony’s Fresh Market store in the Chicagoland area, you’ll quickly discover it’s not a typical grocery store. To say they use everything except the oink might sound cliché, but at Tony’s, it’s true.
Caterpillar is entering the utility-vehicle market, Bobcat offers a new telescopic tool, and Lallemand Animal Nutrition announces its scholarship recipients.
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners is making the name change, as it more accurately reflects the issue.
We live in a world where there is a disconnect between swine producers and pork consumers. This makes it important to understand how the public might view changes to farming practices before they happen.
A $1 million Food & Agriculture Research grant has been awarded to Kansas State University to develop safe and rapidly deployable vaccines to prevent African swine fever virus.
The Ag Economists’ Monthly Monitor is a gauge of economists’ views on the ag economy. While outlooks have grown weaker, it’s the erosion in the future outlook that is sprouting fresh concerns.
Is the U.S. pork industry prepared for a Japanese encephalitis virus outbreak? Here’s how a newly developed diagnostic test could help.
The conversation about how the farming business is going to be transitioned from an established generation to the next generation is a conversation these families cannot afford to put off for another day.
There are moments when stakeholders may disagree with the direction commodity organizations take, says Steve Malakowsky. His suggestion is simple: if you seek change and don’t align with the trajectory, get involved.
Pork and beef exports of $18.1 billion in 2023 had a significant impact on the corn and soybean industries, according to an independent study conducted by The Juday Group and released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.
The Texas Department of State Health Services reports that a human case of bird flu has been confirmed in Texas and identified in a person who had direct exposure to dairy cattle presumed to be infected with the disease.
Animal rights groups like the Humane Society of the United States and The Accountability Board are taking their plight to public-facing companies. Brands need to prepare for attacks, says Animal Agriculture Alliance.