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Calling all aspiring pig enthusiasts and biosecurity buffs! Grab your camera and get ready to participate in USDA’s APHIS “I Protect Pigs” photo contest, showing how you protect your pigs from African swine fever!

It’s not feasible to expect all pork producers to comply with Proposition 12, explains Kelly Cushman, NPPC vice president of domestic policy. Here’s a look at her chat with Chip Flory of AgriTalk this week.

Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, one week after it approved domestic use of the world’s first commercial vaccines against the disease.

Sens. Chuck Grassley and Sherrod Brown have introduced the Farm Program Integrity Act. It would create a cap of $250,000 in commodity support for a single farm operation and, potentially, some undesirable side effects.

Which top-notch barbecue competitor came out victorious in the Ohio Pork Council’s annual Pork Rib-Off competition at the Ohio State Fair?

NPPC supports the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression Act, but Clemens Food Group is not supportive, and Hormel, Smithfield and Tyson have said they intend to comply with California’s Prop 12 law.

Packers have reduced harvest and employed other tactics in an effort to regain positive margins. Pork producer margins took another step higher as lean carcass prices advance.