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Hogs have been among the rare bull markets in agriculture for the past five months, but some indicators suggest that strength is waning, says Craig VanDyke, Top Third Ag Marketing.

A group that wants to block a law that relaxes North Dakota’s Depression-era ban against corporate farming has raised more than $1.1 million.

A recent Reuters news article reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking action to revoke approval of carbadox, a drug used to control bacterial diseases in pigs.

Plans to expand a pig farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania are moving forward.

Millions of cattle and hogs fatten up at Kansas’ more than 1,750 large-scale livestock feedlots, yet the state regulatory agency entrusted with overseeing those confined feeding operations has no full-time professional environmental engineers at the moment.

Researchers at Kansas State University are looking at ways that piglets grow during their mother’s pregnancy, hoping to reduce the incidence of runt pigs.

As 2014 sets up to be a profitable year for pork producers, constant environmental management, animal welfare pressures and looming federal regulations bring uncertainty to today’s modern production systems.

Imagine walking into your building and finding lesions on your sows or market hogs that look just like Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). Would you know what to do or whom to call?

A North Las Vegas pig farm famous for recycling leftover casino buffet food is soon going up for auction.

What started as a regular livestock auction ended as a moment that changed one Florida 4-Her’s life.