Pork Business
Three highly respected growers from Illinois, Iowa, and Oregon offer a string of succession factors for consideration.
Great supervisors and leaders are rare and, in most cases, have worked very hard to become outstanding. It takes knowledge and, most importantly, practice! Bob Milligan shares several time-tested leadership strategies.
“Agriculture is one of the key solutions in a more carbon positive future,” says Mitchell Hora.
The winner of the 2021 Swine Practitioner of the Year by the American Association of Swine Veterinarians says it’s a humbling honor to be recognized by your peers. Learn more about this year’s winner.
Behringer Ingelheim targets the highly infectious, endemic porcine parvovirus with ReproCyc ParvoFLEX.
Although people may make light of news boasting bologna seizures, U.S. Customs and Border Protections El Paso Director of Field Operations Hector Mancha says there’s nothing funny about these failed smuggling attempts.
The U.S. land grant system boasts some of the best meat science programs in the world, and more than half of the students in those programs are women. A new organization is looking at the hurdles to retain this talent.
Montana native who grew up on the family’s farrow-to-finish swine operation, Dr. Anna Forseth will serve as NPPC’s new director of animal health.
What makes the pork industry’s sustainability goals different from others?
Soaring grain prices in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine are hurting Brazilian meatpackers, but trade disruptions facing Ukrainian and Russian meat producers may be an opportunity to boost Brazil’s global trade.
China’s meat imports in the first two months of the year fell sharply from the same period a year earlier, customs data showed on Monday, as a jump in domestic supplies curbed appetite for international shipments.
Crude oil hit a 13-year high and wheat topped $13. With front-month soybeans soaring past $17, and corn nearing the $8 mark, the crisis in Ukraine means food and fuel inflation fears are also heating up.
Cash-traded weaner pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 23,488 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $84.90, down $1.27 per head from last week.
The American Association of Swine Veterinarians presented its Young Swine Veterinarian of the Year award at its annual meeting in Indianapolis.
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza in a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Stoddard County, Mo.
Japanese encephalitis was discovered on multiple Australian pig farms in Queensland state earlier this week. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in southern Australia.
With the U.S. on the back end of COVID-19 and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine unraveling, USTR Katherine Tai says her office is currently focused on three themes: resilience, sustainability and competition.
The 2020-2021 swine health season ended with the fourth-lowest porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus breeding herd cumulative incidence in the last 11 years of the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project.
With foreign animal disease, African swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease affecting many parts of the world, University of Minnesota researchers secure funds to help discover and mitigate potential outbreaks.
Activist investors including Carl Icahn say a U.S. proposal that would require them to disclose 5% stakes in companies days sooner than current rules could make it unprofitable for them to build successful campaigns.
The Grow-Disk™ chain disk system is a cost-effective solution for automating feed delivery.
USDA’s APHIS announced the availability of the Swine Hemorrhagic Fever Surveillance System evaluation brief and dashboard for African swine fever and classical swine fever monitoring.
UPDATE: 03/02 4:23 pm-EST-There are reports a missile struck a vessel flying under the flag of Bangladesh in Ukraine.
As the Ukraine crisis continues to grab the world’s attention, President Biden’s State of the Union address declared the U.S. is in a better place than it was a year ago, while agriculture was left largely unmentioned.
Wheat futures were fueled by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis on Wednesday. As a result, front-month wheat contracts hit daily trading limits and soared to a 14-year high.
Purdue University, under the direction of Mohit Verma, has received $1 million in funding to develop a rapid, pen-side test for African swine fever, much like the COVID-19 rapid test.
In January 2014, Scott Dee made a shocking discovery that PEDV could be transmitted in feed. Here’s how the science evolved from a field observation to the focus of an entire special issue of a scientific journal today.
AASV insights covering foreign animal disease preparedness representing a variety of perspectives from state animal health officials to practitioners who have experience dealing with African swine fever in China.
Expect Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to dominate the State of the Union address tonight. As for issues affecting agriculture, there may be few details offered, says USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
With uncertainty taking over the grain market, it’s a double whammy for livestock producers who are facing higher feed costs, as inflationary pressures may create more headwinds on the demand side in 2022.