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The first step to juggling your many responsibilities is to admit you won’t have a perfect balance between farm, family and other responsibilities.

Keeping your farm fully staffed might require looking well beyond your own backyard. In fact, it might mean stretching your feelers out across borders to find workers on foreign soil.

Beyond Meat, the plant-based burger startup, announced it will triple its production capacity with a new facility in Columbia, Missouri.

As a prominent sponsor of Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race bows out, the firm claims it merely changed its marketing focus, while PETA takes credit for crippling ‘an egregiously cruel race.’

Finding the right help for the farm is one of the most crucial elements to maintaining a sustainable and profitable farming operation. But you might need to venture outside our country’s borders to find it.

Hormel Foods Corp., Tyson Foods Inc. and other meat packers are accused in a class-action lawsuit of artificially jacking up the price of hot dogs, bacon and other pork products.

AgriTalk After The Bell host Chip Flory welcomes Chirs Barron of C&B Farms back on the program. Newsman Davis Michaelsen covers news.

Bering Pacific Ranches operates one of the largest organic beef operations with 10,000 cattle.

CDC confirms its data on the number of U.S. farmer suicides is flawed.

As tensions ratchet up over France’s ban on using ‘meat-related’ labeling for veggie analogs, butchers shops around the country are being vandalized by vegan activists.

Farms, processing plants and other locations involved in the process of producing meat, poultry, milk and eggs need to prepare in case of an activist incident.

Feedyard closeouts continue flowing red ink while packer margins hover around $300 per head.

The World Food Prize will be awarded this year to two men who have dedicated their careers to improving the availability of nutritious food for pregnant women and children in developing countries.

Restaurant chain IHOP’s contrived campaign to morph into IHOb — to convince customers its menu offers more than just pancakes — drove a lot of discussion, but not a lot of dining.

JBS SA shareholder and former Chair Joseley Batista was charged with corruption along with two others.

A shortage of carbon dioxide that has already drawn warnings from beer makers about potential production problems is also hitting meat processing companies.

The Iowa Pork Producers Association has hired an experienced agriculture communications professional, Dal Grooms, to lead its future communications efforts.

DuWayne Bosse of Bolt Marketing, LLC. and Matt Bennett of Bennett Consulting join U.S. Farm Report host Tyne Morgan for Markets Now.

If meat is grown in a lab, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided, but for the moment it’s pitting animal rights advocates and others against livestock producers in a war of words.

The death of a famous gorilla who learned to communicate in sign language, is an occasion to ponder just how much intelligence and emotional maturity with which we ought to credit animals.

If meat is grown in a lab, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided, but for the moment it’s pitting animal rights advocates and others against livestock producers in a war of words.

Overall chicken industry profitability so far this year, when adjusted for the mix of products produced has been slightly better than 2016, which was not a good year and far below 2017’s.

The Quay Corporation, a Skokie, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 258,121 pounds of pork lard products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection.

Shouldn’t the industry be happy about a study suggesting red meat is a (potential) health food? Not when the context sounds like the disclaimers marketers use to justify eating junk food.

Osborne Industries announces new certification; ADM Animal Nutrition opens a new manufacturing facility in Nebraska, and Diamond V celebrates its 75th anniversary.

The 81-acre farm near Berrien Springs, MI, that served as Muhammad Ali’s retreat and training site is for sale. The farm, complete with a boxing ring, is offered by his widow for $2,895,037.

You can see all kinds of information on social media, some of it true and some of it is just plain false. Here are some tips to use regarding polls, so you can better determine the accuracy of the results.

AgriTalk After The Bell Host breaks down the markets with Jerry Gidel of U.S. Commodities. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey also stops by and Newsman Davis Michaelsen covers the day’s action.

What’s new, what’s trendy in food? What are other people eating (that we’re not)? Good to know — except this report details what people are planning to buy, not what they’ll actually eat.

What’s new, what’s trendy in food? What are other people eating (that we’re not)? Good to know — except this report details what people are planning to buy, not what they’ll actually eat.

Life on the farm is not always idyllic.

Cattle feeding margins slipped into the red last week with a $4 per cwt. decline in cash prices.

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for small businesses to join together to offer cheaper health-insurance plans that would lack some of the protections required under Obamacare.

Science can be a lot of fun as a kid.

In every business decision, you have to measure the risk versus the reward. That can be really daunting in today’s volatile economic environment.

An Indonesian woman was worried about how wild boars were ruining her corn crop on Muna island in Indonesia – she should have been more worried about roaming pythons in the area.

Marking its 30th year, the 2018 World Pork Expo presented a record number of trade-show exhibitors, hospitality tents, educational seminars and live hogs in the Junior National show.

Alternative meat production is far too important to simply dismiss as something that will go away.

A national PR firm can crow all it wants about claiming that the one cause Americans care about more than all others is ‘animal welfare.’ A look at the survey ends that assertion in a hot second.

Iowa Women in Agriculture invites attendees to its 12th annual conference at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny, Iowa on Aug. 2. This year’s theme is Connections, Challenges and Celebrations.

John Phipps discovered a couple blind spots while spraying.

Empty freezers in Iowa food pantries will be full after the Deb and Jeff Hansen Foundation and Iowa Select Farms donate more than 60,000 lb. of fresh, boneless pork loins June 18 – July 2.

Machinery Pete is looking at machinery that has some wear and tear and those values at auction.

Good communication is essential for a successful farming operation. Ensure you keep the lines of communication open by watching for red flags that trigger a communication breakdown.

These lower prices ended a volatile week, which included USDA releasing its monthly WASDE and Crop Production reports and President Donald Trump announcing tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to Japan this week. It concludes on June 15.

Advances in pork production technologies and international trade opportunities were the dominant themes at the 2018 Illinois Pork Tour, conducted June 4-6 by the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to Japan this week. It concludes on June 15.

A new study, “The environmental cost of animal source foods,” suggests beef production and catfish farming have the heaviest environmental footprints.

As Father’s Day rolls around again, so does the challenge of finding an appropriate gift to express your love and make the old man’s day. Presenting the ultimate answer to that dilemma.