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Hot summer days mean added heat stress and reduced growth performance when pigs are at their highest value. Hayden Kerkaert of Pipestone shares how to maintain or improve growth performance during the summer.

The Senate cleared a key procedural vote on a bipartisan infrastructure deal Wednesday, which could set Biden’s infrastructure focus into action. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called it “a very big moment.”

A Senate hearing on Capitol Hill this week focused on “beefing up the supply chain,” but it was the prices paid to producers also in focus, as Senators pressed on everything from price discovery to transparency.

Updated fact sheets on porcine teschovirus (PTV) and Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) have been posted in the Swine Health Information Center Swine Disease Fact Sheet Library. Here’s what you need to know.

When outbreaks of animal disease strike, the news headlines can be awfully confusing for consumers. It’s no wonder reports of African swine fever in Germany have consumers buzzing with questions. Here’s how to help.

The USDA announced on July 28 that the Dominican Republic has confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF). This is the first time ASF has been detected in the Western Hemisphere in decades.

Competition in the meat sector was a focus on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The same day of the House Ag Committee’s hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee put the meatpacking industry in the hot seat with calls for change.

Chinese billionaire Sun Dawu was sentenced to 18 years in jail for crimes including “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” a court said, the latest stiff punishment of an outspoken corporate boss.

A rural veterinarian in Faribault County, Minn., is offering to give away his practice, clinic, pickup and even the vet clinic cat, in an effort to recruit his replacement.

New WHIP+ legislation made its way out of the House Agriculture Committee Tuesday. The $8.5B bill expands not only the type of weather events and resulted losses covered, but also the level of drought needed to qualify.