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Cheyenne McEndaffer, USMEF director of export services, explains that sustainability is an issue of growing importance to international customers of U.S. red meat and other key global audiences.

Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 5,750 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $60.93, down $3.61 per head from last week.

The National Swine Registry and American Berkshire Association announced that all association events will be held collaboratively starting Jan. 1.

The United States said it is seeking to avoid disruptions to pork exports if the territories of Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands detect the fatal pig disease African swine fever.

Sow reproductive performance drops off in the summer, and this year will be no different, according to Paul Yeske, DVM, Swine Vet Center, St. Peter, Minnesota.

In the past 40 years, the swine industry has made incredible progress by coming together to fight foreign animal disease introduction from multiple angles. Paul Sundberg, DVM, says we can’t stop now.

When a storm is brewing on the horizon, you don’t wait until it strikes to close all the open windows. You figure out which windows are open and start closing them one by one until the house is secure.

USDA announced its intent to designate Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as a “protection zone,” a World Organization for Animal Health designation. Here’s what that means for the U.S. pork industry.

The global swine industry has changed dramatically in the past four decades. Experts say those changes will play an important role in our country’s fight to keep African swine fever out of the U.S.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Those words spoken by an ag instructor, inspired Rob Brenneman to chase after his dream to become a pig farmer even though he didn’t have a pig to his name when he started.