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Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was above average this past week, with 9,150 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $76.25, up $2.51 per head from last week.

A mistrial has been declared by a federal judge in Denver overseeing the trial of 10 current and former chicken company executives charged with price-fixing and bid-rigging.

The 2022 Iowa Pork Congress will be held Jan. 26-27 at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. This event is North America’s largest winter swine trade show and conference. Here’s a preview.

We can’t think of a more fitting way to honor NPPC CEO Neil Dierks, one of the greatest leaders of all time in the industry, than with reflections from friends and colleagues as he prepares to retire later this month.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures fell more than 1% on Wednesday on technical selling, softer cash cattle markets this week and worries about export demand for U.S. beef, traders said.

Registration is now open for SowBridge, the distance educational series for those who work with sows, boars and piglets, and with genetic and reproductive issues.

Cutting the numbers of wild boar will be critical in combating the pig disease African swine fever in Germany.

China’s Hebei province said on Wednesday that it has confirmed a new African swine fever outbreak in pigs being transported from other provinces.

USDA just announced their Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program to help producers who sold pigs on the spot market in 2020. Paul Neiffer goes over the details.

Kent Bang, director of swine lending at Compeer Financial, shares his views on mentoring, leadership, strategy and what he’s learned during his career in this exclusive Farm Journal’s PORK Q&A.