News
The history of wild pig hunts is filled with unusual stories, but the chase for a 750-lb. beast hiding in plain sight on a Mississippi farm ranks as a standalone account. Farming reality outshines fiction.
How well prepared is your operation to manage risk? Here’s a list of the top 5 risks and ways to mitigate the challenges.
Ready or not, peak disease transmission season has arrived. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a frustrating and complicated disease. How prepared are your farm and team for PRRS season?
Emerging infectious diseases are a constant threat to the swine industry. Here’s how SHIC is helping protect and mitigate emerging disease risks to the North American swine population.
Cattle feeding margins declined nearly $100 per head last week with lower cash bids and rising costs. Pork producer margins remain mired in red ink.
My Grandma Ruth was an amazing cook. Spending time with her in the kitchen growing up is a gift I’ll never take for granted. She didn’t have a fancy kitchen, but she didn’t need it to make the very best food ever.
Results of African swine fever research in Vietnam are helping inform prevention and preparedness efforts for the U.S. pork industry while helping with response and recovery efforts for the ASF epidemic in Vietnam.
British meat producer Cranswick forecasts annual profit at the upper end of current market estimates, betting strong domestic demand and higher pig prices would offset a fall in China volumes.
Meet the nine graduate students selected for the inaugural 2023 Real Pork Scholars cohort designed to offer professional mentorship and build a strong peer-to-peer network and professional training foundation.
As much as everyone loves Thanksgiving, it can be a little overwhelming getting family together. If politics or the pork market start to come up in conversation, try this to help lighten the mood.
The Nov. 30 deadline on the Time-Limited Trial for New Swine Inspection System plants is approaching. USDA’s inaction is failing the pork industry, says the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry.
It’s Thanksgiving week, and special meals are being planned and prepared across the country. What’s on the menu at your celebration?
A semi-trailer hauling 1,900 piglets overturned on Friday near Dayton, Ohio. Body camera footage showed troopers responding to the call.
Taiwan notified the World Trade Organization on Sept. 28 that it was invoking volume-based special safeguards on imports of pork belly, according to the latest USDA FAS GAIN report.
Fewer unique genotypes than the ASF research community first believed means there is less diversity of ASF virus affecting communities across the globe, USDA researchers say.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) successfully concluded its Strategic Planning Conference with the election of a new dynamic officer team, including Randy Spronk, Steve Hanson, Jay Theiler and David Bruntz.
The Animal Agriculture Alliance announced new upcoming board leadership, along with several board seats have renewed through 2026, following its fall board meeting, held Nov. 7 in Washington, D.C.
The Butler Community College Livestock Judging team was named high team overall in a tight to the top of the junior collegiate contest at the 2023 North American International Livestock Exposition.
A large crowd gathered for the 4-H Livestock Contests results at the North American International Livestock Exposition on Nov. 15 in Louisville, Ky. Here are the winners in livestock judging, skillathon and quiz bowl.
When a group of pigs escaped from a farm in Marshall County in northwestern Minnesota in 2016, it wasn’t long before a sow wandered into the West Valley Wildlife Management Area, where she gave birth to several piglets.
Hord Family Farms of Bucyrus, Ohio, completed its acquisition of the assets of New Horizon Farms, a farrow-to-finish swine operation in Pipestone, Minn.
Management of swine manure demands constant attention. As manure pumping and application continue, safety and effective treatment strategies are essential to address the rising concern of swine manure foaming on farms.
The Oklahoma State University Livestock Judging team continues to break records by winning its 23rd national championship at the NAILE Senior Collegiate Livestock Contest.
Livestock judging changed the direction of Dale Hummel and Ryan Rash’s lives, opening up opportunities they never saw coming. They share 5 tips on how to score better in the reasons room.
Cash cattle traders were jolted by a steep price decline last week that erased much of the profit on cattle sent to market. Pork margins remain red.
More than 1 in 5 U.S. adults live with a mental illness. U.S. Representative Jim Costa (D-CA) says Congress cannot ignore the mental health crisis in America anymore.
It’s all about education in the classroom, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra told Agritalk host Chip Flory. Last week, Feenstra, alongside U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo, introduced the Future FARMER Act.
A recent American Veterinary Medical Association study found less than 4% of veterinarians nationwide predominantly practice production animal medicine. Here’s what Iowa State University is doing to help change that.
“The public doesn’t realize what these animals are capable of,” says wildlife trapper James Dean. “Unfortunately, you’re going to see more and more reports of people getting hurt in wild pig encounters.”
JBS SA, the Brazil-based meat behemoth, is braced for tough times as low cattle availability squeezes beef margins in the U.S., its main market, and management works to return pork business margins to more stable levels.