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Thousands of youth and adult exhibitors who show in the Missouri State Fair Swine Barn will notice major differences in the facility and show ring this year, as the first stage of improvements to the historic barn are complete.

Ohio county fair hogs to be destroyed after swine flu found

Hog barns—stacked eight stories high. The photos from Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey traveled around the Twitter-verse lightning fast, raising eyebrows and slackening jaws of U.S. producers and industry leaders. We all want to know: “How do you manage that manure?”

Hog prices in 2017 have been fairly impressive, and strong consumer demand is keeping the lean hog market strong.

An 820-pound (372-kilogram) hog that an Alabama man shot and killed in his front yard may have escaped from a pen on a nearby farm, according to the man’s hog-raising neighbor.

Prices for pork bellies have increased about 80 percent this year, and frozen reserves are at a 60-year low.

Central Missouri Meat and Sausage became a PETA target recently. Law enforcement officials found no violations, and no need to press charges.

As much as 40% of all German wheat will be used for animal fodder this year, double the usual level, according to estimates from Agravis and researcher Agriculture Market Information Co.

An Ohio State University researcher is coordinating a multi-state study testing for flu among pigs at fairs as swine infected with a flu virus. Two cases were confirmed so far this year at county fairs in Ohio.