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As we launch into a new year of production, a cluster of indicators show this year could be much better than current expectations. Let’s allow ASF to warm the bench while we look at the bullish indicators for 2022.
A mistrial has been declared by a federal judge in Denver overseeing the trial of 10 current and former chicken company executives charged with price-fixing and bid-rigging.
The 2022 Iowa Pork Congress will be held Jan. 26-27 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. This event is North America’s largest winter swine trade show and conference. Here’s a preview.
We can’t think of a more fitting way to honor NPPC CEO Neil Dierks, one of the greatest leaders of all time in the industry, than with reflections from friends and colleagues as he prepares to retire later this month.
Registration is now open for SowBridge, the distance educational series for those who work with sows, boars and piglets, and with genetic and reproductive issues.
Cutting the numbers of wild boar will be critical in combating the pig disease African swine fever in Germany.
China’s Hebei province said on Wednesday that it has confirmed a new African swine fever outbreak in pigs being transported from other provinces.
Kent Bang, director of swine lending at Compeer Financial, shares his views on mentoring, leadership, strategy and what he’s learned during his career in this exclusive Farm Journal’s PORK Q&A.
What do Service Factor, Full Load Amps, and Service Factor Amps tell us about a motor?
The National Pork Board announced an additional $15 million investment of Pork Checkoff funds in the Swine Health Information Center, extending funding for the center through 2027.
China will raise import tariffs on most pork products next year, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, after the world’s top producer rapidly expanded domestic production and reduced its needs for imports.
Although red meat exports are on a record pace in 2021, shipping delays and obstacles remain a major concern for exporters and their international customers.
Here’s how three state pork associations are giving back to their communities and making a difference.
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research project is taking animal production to the next level and has the potential to enhance individual animal monitoring and care practices as well as create farm labor efficiencies.
Sow mortality continues to baffle the pork industry. Although no one has uncovered the smoking gun, most would agree that it’s a multifactorial problem and needs to be approached from many perspectives.
USDA launched a new program to assist hog producers who sold hogs through a negotiated sale during the period in which these producers faced the greatest reduction in market prices due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a move that should alleviate some of the tight pork packing capacity and supply chain issues, the USDA will again allow some plants to run faster harvesting line speeds. NPPC’s Andrew Bailey weighs in on what’s next.
What makes a good mother? Can early-life social behaviors indicate a female’s mothering ability later in life? A research project utilizing the NUtrack animal monitoring system is seeking to find out.
Senate leadership’s timeline for the BBB proposal is just before Christmas, according to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin is calling for a strategic pause for the vote, delaying it into 2022.
France has signed an agreement with China to ensure pork trade can continue even if an outbreak of African swine fever occurs, in a breakthrough for European countries threatened by the pig disease.
Economic advisors to the White House suggested Friday that America’s large meat packers have used their market power to drive up consumer prices while underpaying farmers resulting in a huge jump in net profits.
His warnings have gone largely unheeded, while wild pigs rapidly expand across Western Canada, with no nationally coordinated science-based containment strategy in place. For Brook, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Although COVID-19 affected hog slaughter volume in every region of the U.S at the beginning of the pandemic, a new study says the magnitude of the change in slaughter and the trajectory of recovery differed.
How can farms automate more processes to free up labor so employees can focus on other areas of production? Second-year Ph.D. student Zack Peppmeier is studying ways to develop and apply technology.
USDA’s APHIS issued a revised Federal Order to allow certain swine products to safely move to the mainland U.S. from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as long as they meet certain conditions.
Beef export values are on pace to exceed $10 billion in 2021, with exports to three Asian set to top $2 billion each. Pork exports remain on a record pace.
As U.S. consumer spending and excess savings are both on the rise, John Phipps says the pandemic stirred up the status quo, and now there’s a key question economists are asking as the calendar flips to 2022.
Everyone wants simple solutions to complex issues. Andrzej Sosnicki of PIC admits that as much as he wants simple solutions, as a trained biologist, he knows intrinsically that they do not exist.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is awarding more than $16.3 million to 64 projects with states, universities and other partners to strengthen programs to protect animal health.
Neil Dierks gives credit for the organization’s successes to board members, producer leaders, his staff and farmers out in the country—never to himself. But in reality, he’s a shrewd, big-picture thinker.