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Cash-traded weaner pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 25,659 head reported. Cash weaner pig reported prices were $42.67, up $0.13 per head from last week.

While there are lots of reasons to believe ASF in the Dominican Republic is not a sure sign it will penetrate the U.S. industry, still, everyone has become focused on it and how slippery it is to contain.

In 2021, you have the choice to join Farm Journal Field Days in person or online.

South Dakota State University Extension invites beginning meat processors and backyard butchers to learn new skills associated with the harvest, fabrication and processing of pigs.

Efforts to control the feral pig population in Oklahoma are ahead of last year, USDA reports.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will host African Swine Fever Action Week on September 13 to 17 featuring daily webinars to tackle the topic of ASF from all angles. Here’s how you can participate.

Reports of African swine fever outbreaks around the world are picking up. Bulgarian authorities reported an ASF outbreak on a commercial farm with 13,000 pigs in the central village of Apriltsi.

The Philippines’ agriculture ministry says active cases of African swine fever are declining and confined to less than 1% of the nearly 3,000 villages that recorded outbreaks since the first cases detected in 2019.

Farm Journal announces the acquisition of the international United Pork Americas conference and trade show from Flavia Roppa of Brazil. The conference will be held April 19-21, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.

Evolving strains of porcine circovirus (PCV) mean careful monitoring and updating management strategies are key to controlling disease associated with the virus, said Clayton Johnson, DVM.