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Zack Peppmeier is using image processing algorithms to help evaluate and select market and breeding swine. This could aid in genetic selection, saving the producer on labor and increasing a herd’s genetic potential.

In recognition of many years of service to the U.S. agricultural industry, the U.S. Meat Export Federation recently announced its 2023 award recipients.

A regional analysis of farm income that includes a look at how Kansas farmers are doing indicates livestock receipts are up and crop receipts are down. And, said Jenny Ifft, “where you are in the state matters.”

Pork producer Robert Kluver hosted President Joe Biden at his farm in Northfield, Minn., last Wednesday. Biden was on a tour of the Midwest, touting billions of dollars in aid he recently pledged for rural America.

The FDA, through its Center for Veterinary Medicine, has taken two new actions regarding Mecadox (carbadox), a drug marketed by Phibro Animal Health Corporation.

A new outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) was discovered on a farm in Hong Kong.

U.S. pork productivity has been fantastic with producers raising more pigs while farrowing fewer sows. Fortunately or unfortunately, that means we have a lot of barns that are really full, says Christine McCracken.