Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher Tuesday on fund buying, short-covering and solid beef demand that briefly lifted the June contract to its 3.000-cent daily price limit, said traders.
I've only seen one sold at auction the past 17 years.
I'm talking about John Deere 700A yellow tractors, the industrial version of the Deere 5020. The only one I saw was seven years ago, back on an August 14, 2010 farm
A recently introduced bill to increase grants that encourage veterinarians to practice in veterinary shortage areas has the support of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program
To help meet an ongoing industry need, Iowa Pork Industry Center has scheduled a Pork Quality Assurance Plus 3.0 advisor certification session during the 2017 World Pork Expo in Des Moines. Iowa State University Extens
With the crank of a Case IH Quadtrac, John Duarte unwittingly poked leviathan and unleashed the highest levels of government regulation on his farmland. The annals of bureaucratic overreach are packed with stories of dr
Usually when volume is down, prices are higher, but last week, cash-traded weaner pig volume was 96% of the 52-week average. Cash prices were also down $2.23 from a week earlier. Still, a profit margin exists.
It۪s not exactly the national pastime, but it۪s still quite entertaining to track the backtracking companies do when their touted expansion plans suddenly turn into corporate yard sales.
"We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to do something really big," White House Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohnsaid at a White House press briefing earlier on Wednesday.
Talks of pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is sending ripples through the pork industry, which has seen impressive demand so far this year.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange nearby live cattle contracts on Monday settled with modest gains, supported by their discounts to last week's futures prices and robust wholesale beef demand, said traders.
Walking away from the significant gains the North American Free Trade Agreement has provided for farmers and ranchers throughout United States would have been a severe blow to the agricultural sector, American Farm Bure
An Iowa State University emeritus professor ofeconomicshas been named interim director of two extension-focused centers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences the Beginning Farmer Center and the Center for Agr
This spring, over 800 students from 25 schools visited Kansas pig farms from the comfort of their classrooms. Using Zoom, a live video conferencing technology, students were taken inside a pig barn and had the opportuni
For most activists, it۪s a given: Rising meat prices will trump consumers۪ suppressed outrage over animal cruelty and eco-destruction, and we۪lI all become veggies. Really? Not so fast.
A weekend storm is expected to bring as much as a foot (30.5 cm) of snow to parts of the U.S. Plains winter wheat belt and heavy rain to the southern Midwest, stalling corn and soybean planting, meteorologists said on F
The July corn futures price closed over the past week at the low end of the price range, between $3.60-$3.80, which it has fluctuated within since early March. According to a University of Illinois agricultural economis
President Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday that he was "psyched" to terminate the NAFTA trade deal with Canada and Mexico, but changed his mind after their leaders asked for it to be renegotiated instead.
I go grocery shopping once a month for my family and I tend to buy fresh fruits and vegetables in larger quantities. What is the best way to safely store these items to keep them fresh?
Over the past 25 years, there have been shifts in crops planted in the United States. Overall, acres in feed grain crops decreased while acres in oilseed crops increased. Feed grain crops losing acres were wheat, oats,
In this multi-part series, researchers look at the factors impacting lean growth in the finish phase, including sex of the animal, environmental temperature, genotype, and feeding methods.
A new study commissioned by the Iowa Pork Producers Association shows the state's pork industry continues to be a key contributor to the rural Iowa and the state economy.
The economic contribution study was conducted i
Smithfield Foods brought together barbecue enthusiasts to set a Guinness World Record on April 27. Gathered at the Kansas City Chiefs۪ Arrowhead Stadium, over 350 participants took part in the World's Largest Grilling
The industry wants to know how producers are adopting to the Veterinary Feed Directives that began in January this year. The National Pork Board urges producer participation in the survey.
Water scarcity half a world away caused by climate change could push up prices for meat and dairy products in Europe by disrupting supplies of soybean, which is widely used as feed for livestock, researchers said Wednes
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is, arguably, the most impactful disease for the North American swine industry, due to its known considerable economic losses. The Swine Health Monitoring Project (SH
It looked like it was on the brink of being scrapped, but after discussing NAFTA with President Pena Nieto and Prime Minister Trudeau, renegotiation appears to be the next step.
Herbicides are welcomed by many farmers and backyard gardeners because of their potential to eliminate much of the need for long hours of manual weed control practices.
In Throwback Thursday articles, we look back at the history of Pork Network and the pork industry. This week, we're throwing it back to April 1997 when a name change for the National Pork Producers Council was a hot top
Have you ever heard anyone say they are not busy? I am guessing not. No matter how much technology we have at our finger tips or improved ways to complete an agricultural related task, you won't find many people saying
First, it was a series of E. coli outbreaks among consumer who had eaten at Chipotle۪s, then it was the plummeting stock prices. Now, it۪s a security breach.
For all the predictable battling over USDA۪s proposed rules that would affect smaller producers and contract growers, there۪s a much larger threat looming over rural America.
Binge watching and GMO-centric conversations come together today as Netflix premiers the first season ofBill Nye Saves the World. The show, which became available at 4 a.m. CDT today, features a panel discussion on the
