Pork Business
Jules Pretty will discuss sustainable intensification of agriculture systems and how it offers synergistic opportunities for the co-production of agricultural outcomes, at the Agronomy and Crop Societies annual meeting.
Operating loans will likely be hard to come by this year, here are a handful of tips to help you get one.
New processing plants and facility upgrades support protein sector’s growth.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will begin February 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea and athletes are preparing to be on the global stage.
Police in Thomasville, N.C., are taking a little bit of ribbing over their photos of a runaway pot-belly pig, taken into police custody this week.
Farmweld, makers of pig technology and equipment, held a groundbreaking ceremony this week for state-of-the-art offices it’s building to continue to attract “the best and the brightest” employees to the company.
Hook space is growing along with the current pork herd, and pork prices have been feeling pressure.
Whether the outlook is positive or negative depends largely on exports, and the industry’s ability to remain a trusted trade partner, says Rabobank in a new report.
Export growth has been fueled by trade agreements that provide favorable environments for all parties. Those relationships need to continue.
As they have in other states, activist groups led by the Animal Legal Defense Fund, have filed suit against the Iowa’s Ag Protection Act, commonly referred to by activists as an “Ag-Gag” law.
Brown County officials reject proposed hog farm expansion
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is planning $28 million expansion of its Waterloo, Iowa, pork processing plant, bringing 245 new jobs.
China postpones food import controls after global outcry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hogs and Pigs report on Thursday shows the hog herd is growing. The total herd size comes in at 73.5 million head. The number is the highest for the quarter since the government started its data tabulation nearly 30 years ago. Hogs on U.S. farms during the June through August quarter are up 2.5 percent last year at that time. The growth is now an all-time high for the quarter. The pork industry is adding and modernizing its plant space due to the expansion. AgDay national reporter Betsy Jibben looks the plants coming online and global demand.
It would be wise to keep an eye on these trends that are likely to “shape the world through 2030,” according to Euromonitor International.
The U.S. dollar has been losing some strength, which is making the U.S. more competitive in the export market with Brazil and Argentina.
Two new pork processing plants came online the beginning of the month in Coldwater, Mich. and Sioux City, Ia. That relieved some of the pressure on the producer end, but now the question is if there’s enough demand on the processed side.
Thousands of youth and adult exhibitors who show in the Missouri State Fair Swine Barn will notice major differences in the facility and show ring this year, as the first stage of improvements to the historic barn are complete.
As farmers race for higher yields many are also reaching for a competitive edge. In the U.S., soybeans might be more desirable than foreign competitors based on nutrition and quality, according to research by the University of Illinois.
With South America getting much needed moisture and the market currently looking at more grain supply than demand, pressure continues to weigh on the grains market and soy complex, says Jerry Gulke, president of the Gulke Group.
Appeals court clears way for large hog farm in SE Minnesota
With 6.3 million wild pigs rampaging across 39 states and causing up to $2.5 billion in damages each year, researchers are hopeful a new oral toxicant will help curb wild pig populations.
NC county weighs deal for more jobs at huge slaughterhouse
New pork processing plants in Coldwater, Mich. and Sioux City, Ia. is changing the supply side of the hog market.
Ohio county fair hogs to be destroyed after swine flu found
Hog barns—stacked eight stories high. The photos from Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey traveled around the Twitter-verse lightning fast, raising eyebrows and slackening jaws of U.S. producers and industry leaders. We all want to know: “How do you manage that manure?”
Hog prices in 2017 have been fairly impressive, and strong consumer demand is keeping the lean hog market strong.
An 820-pound (372-kilogram) hog that an Alabama man shot and killed in his front yard may have escaped from a pen on a nearby farm, according to the man’s hog-raising neighbor.
Prices for pork bellies have increased about 80 percent this year, and frozen reserves are at a 60-year low.