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

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?

Feral swine cost the Florida cattle industry at least $2 million a year in lost cattle production, according to a new study led by a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher.

Research shows the hog industry needs to increase truck washes in regions like Iowa that have higher densities of hog farms and packers.

A new report from U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) outlines differences in the USDA’s responses to outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) and porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV), known collectively as Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD).

Specialty markets in pork production are cropping up across the U.S. in response to a growing interest in pasture-raised pigs.

Travis Hood of Hood’s Heritage Hogs in Robertson County, Ky. is working to recreate an old breed of pig with the help of D’Lovely, an Andrus red wattle sow.

Pork supplies should be only modestly higher in 2016 and provide prices which cover all costs of production.