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With the industry becoming increasingly more digital, is your farm’s electronic data protected and computer systems secure?

Three research proposals will receive $35,000 in funding from the Growing Research and New Technology for Swine (GRANTS) program, sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim.

While high-throughput pig phenotyping remains labor intensive and costly, a recent study set out to determine valuable, heritable traits while using less people and the addition of one camera.

Pork burger has traditionally taken a back seat in retail stores for consumers looking for a grilling item or diverse meal option. But ground pork is making a comeback. The original ‘ham’ burger is back...but why?

With the extreme volatility the pork industry has seen recently, Steve Malakowsky poses the question: How do you not only survive the unknowns but thrive?

As group housing systems for gestating sows continue to increase in the U.S. swine industry, strategies to manage social interactions have become increasingly important. Here are three ways nutrition could help.

Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 5,670 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $60.68, down $4.38 per head from last week.

Traditional breeding, which relies on existing, natural genetic variation within a population, can produce pigs with enhanced robustness to disease in a subsequent generation, Topigs Norsvin said in a release.

Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) and partners will use funding in a five-year pilot project to demonstrate a climate-smart future for corn, soybean, livestock and renewable natural gas production.

Europe’s biggest pork producer, Danish Crown, said on Thursday it would cut 350 jobs at two factories in Denmark as a result of declining supplies from farmers hit by rising energy and feed prices.