Pork Business
Studying how to make and combine cutting-edge materials is leading to cheaper, more efficient, and more sensitive gaseous sensors. Maybe they will be affordable enough for use in the pork industry.
The outlook into early to mid-April is a volatile one with ups and downs and plenty of rainfall on the table, especially for the eastern ag belt.
The growing distance between food production and the consuming public is creating an abyss in knowledge and understanding of where food comes from, or what to do with it after it after it’s purchased.
Farmland values continue on a steady trend throughout most of the country.
Iowa Senator Grassley expressed frustration today with Scott Pruitt’s lack of action to uphold the Renewable Fuel Standards law.
Comply with the rules, keep good records and organize those records for accessibility, and you shouldn’t worry about FDA inspectors scheduling an audit.
The president understands agriculture’s need for access to a reliable labor force and will make it a priority to help fix the issue.
The USDA’s Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) recently issued CVB Notice 18-05 Detection of Senecavirus A (SVA) in Veterinary Biological Products to warn of potential contamination of swine vaccines.
Farmers worldwide are feeling the pinch as fuel costs rise to near four-year highs just as they plant and harvest their fields, eroding agricultural income already hamstrung by depressed crop prices.
Retirement plans require open communication and tough questions
Comparing production measures in a broader group allows us to see where we are as a business and what we should be working to improve.
While her photography caught my eye about four and half years ago, Erin Brenneman has led a revolution of social advocacy for the pork industry.
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the United States would create significant economic disruption, but its scope, duration and cost depends on our level of preparation.
President Donald Trump said he may prioritize a bilateral trade deal with Mexico over Canada and that he’s building a good rapport with Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
It’s a sign of the times that 98-year-old Perdue Farms Inc. is looking at selling non-meat protein products alongside its signature chickens and turkeys.
Bans on pork products from China may be widened as part of emergency measures to stem the global spread of African swine fever.
A young Kentucky farm family faces the same cancer that took the life of Senator John McCain.
President Trump’s hard-knocks negotiating turns trade diplomacy upside down.
This morning Dan Hueber was greeted with higher prices uniformly across the grain and soy complexes.
In case you missed the PORK Intel pages in the July-August issue of PORK magazine, here’s a recap.
Commodity businesses are cyclical by nature, and pork production is no different. To make the most of market upsides and minimize the impact of downsides, producers need to maximize their production by controlling the f
Three months after taking office, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has nominated his second in command, American Soybean Association CEO Stephen Censky.
About 40 years ago, Rock Katschnig of Prophetstown, Ill. bought his John Deere 4010 with the primary use of planting sweet corn.
I’ve only seen one sold at auction the past 17 years. I’m talking about John Deere 700A yellow tractors, the industrial version of the Deere 5020. The only one I saw was seven years ago, back on an August 14, 2010 farm
It appears that 2014 Farm Bill has been better than 2008, however, remember we still have two years to go.
Canadian pig imports and U.S. corn prices are often inversely related. With U.S. corn prices rising, Canadian pig imports will likely stay low.
There are valid pros and cons to both sides of the “repair or replace” argument.
We have export sales to mull over, but outside of that, the most important scheduled news on the docket will be the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report, which will be issued after the closes on Friday.
A growing campaign aims to end the use of animals in medical research — only its chief proponent is less an animal rightist and more a slash-and-burn-down-government ideologue.
An animal activist in Spain has ignited a social media controversy over whether it’s ‘healthy and humane’ to keep a fennec fox as a pet — and then feed it nothing but vegan food.