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University of Minnesota researchers have reached a major breakthrough in the efforts to develop effective mitigation strategies to control ASF and keep it from entering North America.
PRRS is a problem. New information continues to emerge showing just how many strains and variants even a single farm could be facing.
Whether you watch the Super Bowl for the actual game or simply enjoy all the delicious snack foods, make pork the center of game day!
Research has shown soybean products provide an environment that stabilizes viruses, including the deadly ASF virus. A new grant will help researchers make progress in preventing virus entry into the U.S. through feed.
Beef exports set records for both volume and value in 2022, while pork export value finished with the third-largest year on record.
An Illinois pig farmer and his family will be starring in a Super Bowl commercial. Here’s why Chad Bell of Viola, Ill., continues to say “yes” when it comes to being a voice for agriculture.
“America’s pork producers stand ready to back government efforts to maintain, diversify, and expand additional export markets for U.S. ag,” NPPC said in a press release.
The Mark and Karen DeDecker family are the Illinois Pork Producers Association’s Family of the Year. Here’s why.
It’s the same old story. A story that Steve Von Haden, Midwest business manager for Motomco, hears time and time again as he visits barns throughout the country.
With all of the demands on a pork producer’s schedule, it’s challenging to leave the farm to attend industry events. The Ohio Pork Congress, however, is one that few Ohio pig farmers miss. Here’s what they had to say.
The Illinois Pork Producers Association recently hosted their 2023 Expo in Springfield and acknowledged retiring IPPA directors, as well as announced new leadership and the next ambassador.
Despite ongoing cost pressures, early signs signal expansion in the U.S. hog herd, Rabobank says in its latest Rabobank Global Pork Quarterly Report.
USDA’s first official net farm income forecast shows an expected 16% drop in 2023 net farm income, largely due to a decline in commodity prices and government payments with higher expenses and costs at the farm level.
If cash rent leases are negotiated via auction, Jim Rothermich is seeing prices drawing double – even triple digit gains. In Illinois, prices are up 90% to 120% compared to the previous year.
Ohio Pork Council’s president Nick Seger opens up about his farm, his family, his goals as president and the type of leader Ohio pork producers are getting in their new president.
Family businesses are often complex and making the decision to join the family farm is no different. Here’s a list of questions the next generation should consider about the family business.
The price surge comes as Europe announced a ban on Russian diesel fuel and G7 countries vowed to price-cap Russian oil products.
Rabobank analysts agree that the industry may find growth difficult to sustain through 2023, given the slow production growth in major exporting regions, mainly the European Union and the U.S.
USMEF notes as the U.S. pork industry seeks to diversify global demand, Central and South America will be key growth areas.
Mark your calendars for the Missouri Pork Expo, scheduled for Feb. 21 and 22 at the Margaritaville Lake Resort at Lake of the Ozarks near Osage Beach, Mo.
African swine fever has basically spread everywhere on Hispaniola. Amy Delgado, DVM, has been deployed five times to the DR and twice to Haiti to support the USDA’s response to this outbreak. Here’s an update.
Much ink and many pixels have been wasted, in my opinion, on rants about people other than U.S. farmers owning farmland. Surprisingly, critics are just as hard on wealthy Americans as foreigners.
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Alexis Taylor for Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs. According to Taylor, her priorities include addressing export markets and food insecurity.
Obtaining rectal temperatures on sow farms is very time consuming. Kaci Way, a DVM student at The Ohio State University, said it can often drop in priority on the farm’s to-do list. Here’s a way to bump it up the list.
With Republicans now in control of the House, Rep. RandyFeenstra (R-Iowa) said he wants to introduce legislation shielding the stepped-up basis and like-kind exchanges.
By the world’s standards, they looked like an unlikely group of employees to bring into a sow barn. But to Jimmy Tosh, owner of Tosh Farms, they looked like a group of women who could use a second chance.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the barn when Samantha Nicole Iselt of Lexington, Texas, was named the exhibitor of the Grand Champion Market Barrow at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo.
The first thing Gracee Workman will tell you about her story is she is not a victim. Shew grew up far from hog barns and oblivious of the industry she’s come to love. Here’s her journey from the streets to the barn.
The first thing Gracee Workman will tell you about her story is she is not a victim. She grew up far from hog barns and oblivious of the industry she’s come to love. Here’s her journey from the streets to the barn.
Audrey Angus opens up about her battle with cancer.