Pork Business
This new initiative aims to provide a transparent, automated and reproducible method to help veterinarians, producers and stakeholders prioritize disease threats based on real-world diagnostic data.
Here’s why proper pit ventilation matters for air quality, moisture control, animal comfort and long-term barn performance.
Lawmakers aim for year-end deal as midterm elections loom.
When saturated soils and full storage pits collide, experts share tactical adjustments for equipment, setbacks and field selection.
Backed by more than 600 agricultural groups, Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson details the urgent need for H-2A guest worker updates and his plan for year-end passage.
Saturated soils and back-to-back storms are leaving Iowa farmers with full manure storage and unworkable ground, but experts say it’s not time to panic yet.
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Jesse Heimer, NPB member from Missouri, shares how the industry is helping build for what’s next through consumer demand.
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From disease-resistant livestock to hardier crops, gene editing provides farmers with new tools to improve animal health, sustainability and food production.
Students from non-traditional and STEM fields alike gained hands-on experience using precision livestock farming and AI to solve critical challenges in swine production.
By turning a routine farm reality—sow mortality—into a fast, low-stress diagnostic tool, one student hopes her 2-minute surveillance method will bring Minnesota and the wider industry one step closer to complete Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae eradication.
The six PCT filings secure global intellectual property protection for BinSentry’s AI-driven sensors, 3D mapping, and automated feed-monitoring technology across the supply chain.
As activist organizations surpass $1 billion in combined revenue, a new Animal Agriculture Alliance report reveals how interconnected networks are aligning funding, policy and corporate pressure to target the pork industry.
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Learn how automated AI video classification tracks scavenging wildlife around farm deadboxes to prevent mechanical pathogen transmission and improve swine biosecurity.
Despite tightening inventories and a decade-low breeding herd, softening domestic and export demand is projected to pressure hog prices and squeeze producer margins into 2027.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation expressed cautious optimism after bilateral talks placed pork and beef among the non-sensitive goods slated for tariff and non-tariff barrier relief.
When you consider that today’s purchased weaner would be sold in March 2027 using April 2027 futures, the weaner breakeven was $10.20, down $0.24 for the week, and $15.20 below the average cash price for the week of $25.40.
In an industry flooded with high-tech claims, Alltech’s Andy Rash shares why true innovation only matters when it solves an economic challenge inside the barn.
New research reveals RVA, RVB and RVC are actively transcribing in swine lung tissue, raising questions about airborne spread and respiratory coinfections.
A smaller breeding herd and reducedpig crop reflect how producers are pulling back amid rising input costs and weaker hog prices.
Surging corn futures could push 2027 swine finishing feed costs up nearly 10% over 2026 levels.
A roundup of the latest product launches and corporate developments shaping swine nutrition, barn management and genetics.
New research shows that subtle sow behaviors and the gap between the first two piglets can flag high-risk labor before stillbirth rates climb.
The award-winning colorimetric tool provides pork producers with a simple, barn-ready way to verify water medication delivery and prevent treatment failures.
The application deadline for the Feral Swine Eradication and Control Pilot Program has been extended to this Friday, Sept. 25.
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What do surveillance test volumes mean for U.S. swine health? USDA’s Lynn Wachtman shares how national sample collection is critical to protect the domestic swine herd.