The livestock industry needs a comprehensive, cohesive plan to address the virus. Producers, their employees and veterinarians need clear answers and support from U.S. agricultural leadership, moving forward.
If your net worth totaled nine zeroes, you, too, would spend piles of cash on wildly expensive recreation. But your investments would be all about ROI — just like those alt-meat investors.
As they have in other states, activist groups led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, have filed suit against the Iowa’s Ag Protection Act, commonly referred to by activists as an "Ag-Gag" law.
Shoplifting’s a perennial problem, but the anti-theft measures typically employed to secure ‘big-ticket’ electronics are now migrating to a new area: the supermarket meat department.
Whether the outlook is positive or negative depends largely on exports, and the industry’s ability to remain a trusted trade partner, says Rabobank in a new report.
San Francisco has become the first U.S. city to require grocers with 25 stores or more to report annually the use of antibiotics in the raw meat and poultry they sell.
House Agriculture Chairman Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) addressed some of the key agricultural policy issues in Washington recently in a prepared audio release distributed by his office.
What’s not to like about that headline? Which is exactly what the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks were hoping in an email to fans to get them excited for the team’s season opener last week.
Greg Henderson, editor of Drovers, a sister publication to PORK, espouses on the misleading and deceptive advertising tactics used by a company selling a new variety of grapes. It's evident in the meat industry too.
October is the perfect time to release anything pork chop related—it’s National Pork Month after all. But American country rapper Cowboy Troy’s new song Porkchop, fun way to share your love of pork.
For every successful foodservice chain operating hundreds of stores, there’s a similar number of once-and-future failures. Some got rolled by bigger competitors; others dug their own graves.
New tax reform framework released this week includes priorities for agriculture but unanswered questions remain, says Patricia Wolff, American Farm Bureau Federation's tax expert, on AgriTalk Radio Show this week.
It comes as no surprise to people with common sense, but it’s refreshing to see research reviews that put the real cause of chronic disease in the spotlight.
Our friends in the European nation most famous for its beer and chocolates is now advising its citizens to concentrate their diets on water, veggies, tofu and noodles. Meat? Oh, not at all!
Leslie McCuiston, a pig farmer from Columbus, Nebraska, is the 2017 America's Pig Farmer of the Year. She achieved the highest combined score from a third-party judging panel and online voting.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hogs and Pigs report on Thursday shows the hog herd is growing. The total herd size comes in at 73.5 million head. The number is the highest for the quarter since the government started its data tabulation nearly 30 years ago. Hogs on U.S. farms during the June through August quarter are up 2.5 percent last year at that time. The growth is now an all-time high for the quarter. The pork industry is adding and modernizing its plant space due to the expansion. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben looks the plants coming online and global demand.
There’s no shortage of anti-aging “secrets” guaranteed to keep a person healthy and happy for decades longer than their clueless colleagues who aren’t in on the secrets.
Whether in the classroom or on the street, there are people who want to put an end to animal agriculture. Here are six tips for how you can effectively share your point of view.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell for the second straight session on Tuesday, easing on follow-through technical selling in the wake of bearish government supply data released late on Friday, traders
It۪s bad enough wading through rhetorical swamps teeming with PR-ese written by animal activist screechers. But since when did the mainstream media become their press agents?
Three National Pork Board officers and two members of the senior leadership team saw first-hand the potential for pork in Japan and China during a recent trade mission trip to those countries. Read about their impressio
Unseasonably hot U.S. weather is accelerating corn and soy crop maturity after months of concerns that lagging development could drag down yields or put some late-planted acres at risk of damage from frost, agronomists
Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle futures tumbled about 2 percent on Monday after government data on Friday showed bigger-than-expected placements of cattle on feed in August.
Hurricane Maria will come close enough to North Carolina to trigger gusty winds and rain, while unleashing dangerous seas elsewhere along the East Coast this week
This market update is a PorkNetwork weekly column reporting trends in weaner pig prices and swine facility availability. All information contained in this update is for the week ended September 22, 2017.
It can be a challenge to keep up with the latest technology and how it might fit on your farmwhich is exactly why Farm Journal is hosting the AgTech Expo. Whether you۪re a novice, an early adopter or somewhere in betwe
Expansion has been deliberate and thoughtful at Hanor. Establishing working relationships with genetic stakeholders and processors has been key to the company's success from conception.
Early Beginnings
Hermann Kronsede
