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Understand the cyber risks you face — and how to reduce your exposure.
From using sensors and psychological profiles to increase biosecurity compliance to determining economical and epidemiological benefits of disinfecting market trailers, the latest SHIC-funded projects will turn heads.
Deferred grain contracts are helpful tax planning tools. Unfortunately, farmers often skip a vital step.
Here’s a look at some recent news from Smithfield Foods and Alltech, as well as new faces in new places at the Missouri Pork Association, NOVUS and GARCO.
Professors Joel Derouchey and Jason Woodworth brought home honors from the American Society of Animal Science Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico held July 16-20.
Here’s how you can avoid committing these harmony-harming mistakes.
Pickleball is one of the country’s fastest-growing sports. What better way to celebrate the grand opening of the first pickleball courts in Guymon, Okla., than with a Pork N’ Pickle party?
What is the best way to fill current and future labor needs on your farm? Never stop recruiting.
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health is awarding $105,000 to three award recipients for the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine program. Here’s a look at the list of winners and their areas of study.
China contains the largest population of any country in the world. All those mouths drive demand across the globe and for your farm’s products.
Animal activists look for ways to disrupt the livestock industry. However, in Missouri, interfering with the shipping of livestock is now considered a felony offense, with a fine up to $10,000 and prison time.
The power of encouragement on your farm is massive, says Bob Milligan, senior consultant at Dairy Strategies.
You are likely making plans for seasonal help. If that team includes children or grandchildren, you might want to consider setting up a custodial Roth Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) for them.
Collect and analyze the best financial data to aid decisions on your farm operation.
See how rising costs impact you and your family.
With heat forecast to top 100 degrees in places, combined with the expectation for little to no rain, crop conditions could deteriorate and the biggest risk in the western and central Corn Belt.
Nuevo Garcia Foods, LLC, a San Antonio, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 4,784 pounds of pulled pork product due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen.
Trouble continues in the rural economy. Rural bankers point to the issues causing uncertainty ahead.
How can you reward team members for good work, increase employee retention and achieve your operation’s goals? Consider implementing an incentive pay system to reward your farm employees.
To commemorate his 60th trip around the sun, Duane Hansen set a new world record.
You’ve heard the horror stories. The ones about farm families who spend months in court fighting over assets. The result? A destroyed business and fractured family. Why does this situation play out over and over?
Ensure your farm business attracts and retains employees
A consortium led by major Chinese pig feed producer Twins Group will lead the restructuring of Jiangxi Zhengbang Technology 002157.SZ, previously one of the country’s top pig breeders, Zhengbang said on Monday.
Vietnam has approved the domestic commercial use of two home-grown vaccines against African swine fever (ASF), the government said on Monday, making them the world’s first commercial vaccines against the deadly disease.
In your will or trust documents, you name a power of appointment. This means you grant power to an individual to name recipients of all or a portion of your money and property in the future.
How do you set your farm on a profitable and exciting trajectory? Surround yourself with smart people, and then give and take.
“You can begin at any point in the year, but the power of this is that by improving yourself first, others follow,” says Mark Faust, president of Echelon Management.
The Indiana State Fairgrounds & Event Center, formerly the swine barn and public safety center, unveiled the new World-Class Indiana Farm Bureau Fall Creek Pavilion and plans for its future use on Thursday.
Could agriculture face a Southwest-type meltdown?
The rural economy seems to be set on cruise in neutral gear. That’s according to the Rural Mainstreet Index (RMI) from Creighton University.