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Competition in the meat sector was a focus on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The same day of the House Ag Committee’s hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee put the meatpacking industry in the hot seat with calls for change.

Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu was sentenced to 18 years in jail for crimes including “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a court said, the latest stiff punishment of an outspoken corporate boss.

A rural veterinarian in Faribault County, Minn., is offering to give away his practice, clinic, pickup and even the vet clinic cat, in an effort to recruit his replacement.

New WHIP+ legislation made its way out of the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday. The $8.5B bill expands not only the type of weather events and resulted losses covered, but also the level of drought needed to qualify.

Are you struggling to hire? You’re not alone. The 2021 Farm Journal Labor Survey found most farm employers and ag retailers are finding it harder to fill positions.

Maybe not a wilderness per se, but one big honking tree.

U.S. and Chinese officials met face-to-face for high-level talks, and the meeting had a tense tone as the countries remain at odds over issues from cyber security to human rights.

Chinese farmer Cheng wades through knee-deep water, pulling dead pigs behind him one-by-one by a rope tied around their ankles as he lines up the bloated carcasses for disposal.

German pig prices were unchanged this week despite the discovery of the disease African swine fever (ASF) in farm animals, German animal farmers’ association VEZG said.

The U.S. is continuing to take steps to keep African swine fever out of the country. USDA recently announced that it has approved blood swabs and spots as official African swine fever (ASF) testing tissues.