Industry
The North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute) praises the ruling issued by the Superior Court for Sacramento County in California to halt enforcement of Proposition 12.
Challenges are often opportunities in disguise, three pork industry leaders expressed during a recent Farm Country Update. Here’s a look at the topic of total pork demand and how to win over the meat case.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service added Thailand to the list of countries it considers affected by African swine fever and stressed the importance of strict adherence to three rules.
Protecting the U.S. from African swine fever remains a top priority of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Here’s a look at some the agency’s most successful efforts to protect American ag in 2021.
After ransomware attacks hit two co-ops and an equipment auction site last year, John Phipps says his guess is tractors being hacked to override factory engine or emission controls are ripe for self-inflicted hacks.
Risk management is a hot topic in the hog market. Scott Brown, University of Missouri economist, believes there are more reasons to be concerned about lower prices than optimism about higher prices as he looks ahead.
Cash-traded weaner pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 22,757 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $69.06, up $2.04 per head from last week.
Rural communities are likely to see an outbreak of the COVID-19 variant omicron later than big cities but Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the pandemic will eventually end.
Sometimes it feels like there are so many things we shouldn’t do when it comes to dealing with animal activists. Don’t get provoked. Don’t be easily angered. Don’t engage. Don’t confront. But what can we do?
Wade Hendricks is always thinking about the next generation and how he can breed better Duroc hogs. Here’s why he jumped at the opportunity to get involved with a new Duroc pork program.
Backed-up pork processing plants. Holding diets. The waiting game. If anything good came out of the pandemic and it’s initial impact on the pork supply chain, Randy Francois said it was hog inventory management.
What do consumers want? Animal Agriculture Alliance’s 2022 Stakeholders Summit will dive into the question, hoping to stay ahead of the next wave of consumer preferences.
It’s a prime opportunity to address a gap in the industry, says National Swine Registry CEO Clay Zwilling. Here’s why NSR is moving forward with its first association-based branded pork program, Certified DUROC Pork.
It’s no surprise pork products made the U.S. CBP’s Top 10 Agriculture Seizures of 2021 list more than once. Protecting animal ag is a high priority, especially as deadly swine viruses like ASF move closer to the U.S.
The Biden administration and some cattle groups blame meat industry concentration for producers getting a smaller share of consumer dollars for beef than they did decades ago. The Meat Institute disputes such claims.
The demand for crocodile meat is exploding in Thailand as local consumers are hit by a spike in the price of pork.
Iowa State University research seeks alternatives for saturated animal fats that retain the original products’ desirable qualities of taste, texture and appearance and offer more choices to health-conscious consumers.
Hong Kong reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in a wild boar in the northern part of the territory, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
APHIS is allowing biosecure facilities that handle regulated garbage to hold it in tightly sealed, leak-proof containers for up to 120 hours. Prior to that, garbage had to be processed within 72 hours.
Italy on Thursday banned hunting and several other outdoor activities in two northern regions affected by a recent outbreak of African swine fever, a deadly hog disease.
China’s imports of meat fell 5.4% in 2021 from the year before, customs data showed on Friday, as a surge in domestic supply of pork cut demand for overseas supplies.
Ohio pork producer and Columbus Blue Jackets hockey fan Jacey Snyder’s dream came true when defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov sported her socks during a recent game.
Federal agents seized and destroyed more than 1,900 pounds of prohibited pork, poultry and ruminant products from New York City-area retailers in the past three months.
The 2022 Annual Meat Conference (AMC) to be held in February, hosted by the North American Meat Institute (NAMI) and The Food Industry Association (FMI) has been cancelled.
What’s being done to grow understanding of Porcine sapelovirus, an emerging virus isolated in a diagnostic specimen from a U.S. swine farm?
Total China meat supply in 2022 is expected at 79 million tons, revised up 7% from the prior forecast and again surpassing total meat supplies before ASF struck. Here’s a look at the revised forecast.
Hog futures have dropped this week as market participants have gone on the defensive following reports of lower-than-expected slaughter and ongoing processing bottlenecks.
Although the export potential may start off small in India, U.S. Meat Export Federation’s president and CEO Dan Halstrom believes the opportunity to tell U.S. pork’s story is a gamechanger.
The Food and Drug Administration provided notice in the Federal Register on Tuesday of its intention to hold a public hearing regarding Mecadox, a widely used treatment for controlling bacterial diseases in swine.
A survey reveals how residents in two of the largest pig producing counties in the country feel about their local community, the impact of agriculture and renewable energy projects on farms.