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After six months of losses, will Chinese pork producers be forced to cull their herd or exit the market entirely?

A team of researchers has received a five-year, $10-million grant from the USDA to develop an alternative food source: meat produced not from farm animals, but from cells grown in bioreactors.

Bulgarian veterinary authorities on Monday reported a new outbreak of African swine fever at an industrial farm that has a total of 180 pigs in the southern village of Radinovo.

Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband and other infrastructure improvement, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law.

McDonald’s is committing $5 million and partnering with AgMission, a global collaboration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture and to develop and implement climate-smart farming solutions.

Cash-traded feeder pig reported volume was below average this past week, with 7,400 head reported. Cash feeder pig reported prices were $69.80, down $2.30 per head from last week.

Kansas State University swine researchers and graduate students are reporting findings that could help the survival rates of newly weaned pigs.

If you walk into the grocery store today, the average American will fork over $7 per pound for bacon. The record prices may not be over yet, but pork producers aren’t winning with the run-up in bacon prices, either.