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Cash-traded weaner pig volume was below average this week with 47,550 head being reported which is 70% of the 52-week average. Cash prices were $82.90, down $1.43 from a week ago.

Terry Wolters, pork producer from Pipestone, Minnesota and past president of the National Pork Producers Council, says optimism is returning to the industry with better prices.

The Panama Canal is in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs — and he’s pledged to retake control of the strategic waterway due to Chinese influence. He also claims U.S. ships have been unfairly charged for using the canal.

MIT scientists have developed robotic insects that could aid farming through artificial pollination.

Here’s a look at who won awards and achieved Master Pork Producer designation at the 2025 Iowa Pork Congress.

Mycotoxins, natural substances produced by molds and fungi, are more prevalent — and more of a problem in agriculture — than ever before.

Updates from nutrition, genetics and equipment companies serving the livestock industry.

The Iowa Pork Producers Association passed three resolutions at its 2025 annual meeting in Des Moines. Here are the big topics on Iowa producers’ minds.

Enthusiasm. Optimism. Energy. It’s not hard to see those three traits in the newly elected 2025 president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association.

Under the regulation, FSIS would classify certain Salmonella levels and serotypes in raw poultry products as adulterants and, therefore, prohibit them from entering the food supply.