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The 12th-annual Iowa Swine Day program is packed with a top-notch group of speakers focusing on important issues facing U.S. pork producers. Mark your calendar to attend this event on Thursday, June 29.

More than 100 pork producers from around the country attended NPPC’s Spring Legislative Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Here’s a look at the big topics they brought to the table.

Cash-traded weaner pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 34,050 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $34.29, down $5.35 per head from last week.

Boston resident Altin Kalo, chief economist with Steiner Consulting Group, said the hog market reminds him a little of his drive in to work each day in Boston traffic.

Voted as the best pulled pork in Iowa for 2023, Marshalltown’s The Flying Elbow claims top honors of the sixth-annual Pulled Pork Madness, a social media contest sponsored by the Iowa Pork Producers Association.

According to USDA, this funding was made available to help struggling rural communities “recover economically” and offer more market opportunities, improve infrastructure and protect farmland.

Now is the time to give your summer fans their annual preseason tune-up

ASF isn’t going away in the Eurasian wild boar population. Experts say the infection pressure resulting from infected carcasses in the environment can be a major contributor to disease persistence and spread.