Pork Business

Find out how the Oklahoma pork industry is working together to fight hunger.
Opportunities await for the next youth leader in Missouri’s pork industry, as applications for the 2023 Youth Pork Ambassador Program are open until Dec. 15.
The Justice Department says it has filed a memo in federal court with its recommended sentence for Washington rancher and cattle feeder Cody Easterday who pleaded guilty in a $244 million “ghost cattle” scheme.
New products and collaborations announced of swine phytase products by Danisco and DSM.
As we move into the fall quarter, the usual expectations of declining prices and heavy weights are before us, but will they be realized and to what extent? What could unfold in potentially unusual ways?
Canines serve as a valuable asset in protecting the U.S. agriculture industry, helping detect foreign animal diseases and other invasive species and pests from entering the border.
While cash cattle prices slipped only modestly, cattle feeders saw margins erode by $86 per head, falling from an average profit of $38 two weeks ago to an average loss of $49 per head last week.
Beef packer continued with a stranglehold on cattle markets last week, buying a few cattle to fill their needs at lower money and keeping operating margins historically high.
The White House is moving forward in the “race to 5G” and is also investing more money into rural broadband, helping better connect underserved areas of the country.
In early April, President Biden—ahead of EPA—formally announced the suspension of a federal rule that prohibits the sale of E15 blended biofuels during summer months in hopes of alleviating rising pump prices.
As one of the researchers who helped developed pigs resistant to the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus said, “At the very least, the development of PRRS-resistant pigs is a new tool for im
Stewardship of medically-important antimicrobial drugs in food animals is the subject of a workshop to be offered Saturday, Jan. 16, as part of the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver, CO. This free workshop wi
Not all animal health emergencies are created equal, says Dr. Corrie Brown from the University of Georgia. How a disease is treated depends on whether or not it impacts the “public good.”
Kent Nutrition Group (KNG), a division of Kent Corporation (kentww.com), and DEL-uxe Feeds (Deluxe) have entered into an agreement where KNG will acquire the Deluxe organization, including its feed mills, retail busines
Tech innovator Alibaba is working with Chinese pork producers to manage pig production with artificial intelligence sensors and video tracking.
Scientists have long struggled to understand what regulates sperm “capacitation,” the vital physiological process sperm must undergo to become capable of fertilizing an egg cell. Zinc plays a critical role.
The winning project in the Merck Animal Health High-Quality Pork — Precision Farming Award contest monitors the feeding habits and weight gain of pigs and can identify those that have gone off feed.
New feed line control improves existing infrared technology with a multi-color display.
According to a senior administration official, the presidents are still planning to meet but there’s “too much work to do” in too short of a time period to flesh out a deal with China.
FAPRI’s baseline projections point to little change in net farm income over the next decade, which could lead to further erosion in the farm financial picture for agriculture. For 2019, FAPRI sees livestock receipts not boasting the numbers USDA currently projects.
The lean hogs market dipped substantially lower. However, what will the markets do in light of African Swine Fever and the trade war? AgDay Host Clinton Griffiths discusses more with Jim McCormick with AgMarket.Net.
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has said that he will not immediately act to remove the Phase 1 trade agreement, which President Donald Trump inked with China, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
This week Chip Flory and Jim Wiesemeyer discuss concern over high temperatures and a lack of rain, cyberattacks, PORK Week and more.
The dollars tagged for such purposes are part of the Build Back Better program, the Biden administration’s COVID-19 relief plan.
Farm-state lawmakers will eventually add billions to the aid package, but Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) agrees it could take until a later omnibus spending measure to be approved.
A rail strike is looming despite the majority of unions reaching tentative agreement with the rail companies, but the unions not on board are essential to the operation of the nation’s rail system.
With Ukraine and Russia at war in the midst of a world moving away from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot to consider in the 2023 Farm Bill. Industry experts weighed-in to share their predictions.
Have the Pacific Coast port bottleneck issues been resolved, or moved somewhere else? The East Coast may now be carrying the burden.
Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group, offers further analysis on market trends and movements and what they mean to the farm industry.
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