Pork Business
Activist groups — one in particular — that demonize animal agriculture’s use of antibiotics have coined a new term in support of their mission, and it’s one that is super inappropriate.
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against the United States — worth $16.6 billion — will clearly come at a cost, not only to the American economy, but also the Canadian economy.
In June, the House of Representatives worked on two immigration bills but both failed. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) isn’t sure if anyone will have the “political desire” to get something worked on and passed in July.
The Working Groups advise on the direct work of the Swine Health Information Center, helping with programs, research, and response.
The Swine Health Information Center is engaged in investigating Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) and in the development of a convenient test to identify its presence.
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a leader in consumer engagement for food and agriculture, has selected Erin Fitzgerald from Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy as its next CEO.
Proposals are now being accepted for grants up to $20,000 to support small-scale projects and pilot studies that address prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury.
If meat is grown in a lab, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided, but for the moment it’s pitting animal rights advocates and others against livestock producers in a war of words.
If your company’s logo is on your ball cap, your cooler jacket or even your vehicle, you are indeed an ambassador. A walking banner. A representative of your organization.
There is a distinct possibility that we have entered a new “cold tariff-war” that lingers for perhaps years?
Zoetis adds a monovalent swine vaccine with two PCV2 genotypes, Featherlite makes improvements to its new models, and Hypor adds Charlie McKenzie to its sales force.
Bob Utterback of Utterback Marketing and Doug Werling of Bower Trading hash it out with U.S. Farm Report host Tyne Morgan on this week’s Markets Now.
The Pork Board is moving away from consumer-direct, generic advertising, and taking on more of a business-to-business consulting role.
The Swine Health Information Center is collaborating with USDA Ag Research Service, USDA-APHIS, National Pork Board, and other key researchers to help understand possible pathways to introducing FMD into the U.S.
Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms, writes about how the Pork Care Package program began and the positive impact it has had on Iowa’s service men and women.
Very little positive news is entering the market to support soybean prices. The potential size of the soybean crop and trade uncertainty continue to be the main forces behind soybean price weakness.
Alyssa Cornelison joins Zinpro as a research assistant and Paul Peetz joins the Lely team as milking technology manager.
The outlook for trade has darkened considerably in recent days; a gamble in the trade arena that holds substantial risk for American farmers.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to Japan this week. It concludes on June 15.
With more supplies coming online, Seaboard Triumph Foods will start a second shift at its Sioux City plant in October 2018. At full capacity, the plant will employ 2,000 employees and process 21,000 market hogs daily.
The Trump administration announced Friday it is moving forward on slapping tariffs on imported goods for China as the trade fight widens.
The National Pork Producers Council is calling for Thailand’s preferential access to the U.S. market to be revoked or reduced if it does not end its unwarranted ban on U.S. pork.
What’s new, what’s trendy in food? What are other people eating (that we’re not)? Good to know — except this report details what people are planning to buy, not what they’ll actually eat.
After a record performance in 2017, U.S. pork exports to Central America, South America and the Dominican Republic have continued to gain momentum this year.
Talk about extremes: Twin news stories are touting, respectively, saving farm animals by going veggie, and breeding, raising and butchering them in your very own home slaughter operation.
This Florida dairy has been improving the work environment with team building exercises.
Pharmgate adds three new people; TechMix gives back through its internship program.
New employees can come from a variety of backgrounds with varying experience, so it is important for an employer to meet new hires with appropriate expectations and meeting new hires “where they are.”
PRRS costs the swine industry $560 to $660 million annually, with the breeding herd costs accounting for 45% of the total industry cost.
The Livestock Subtitle of the bill creates a National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures bank, but no funds were earmarked for the vaccine bank.