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USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced agricultural producers have already received more than $4 billion through the Emergency Relief Program (formerly WHIP+), representing 67% of the $6 billion projected to be paid.

As the ag workforce dwindles, decisionmakers are faced with a tough dilemma. Not wanting to stop working the land they love or leave communities they’ve been part of for generations, they must find a solution.

If we were to experience an ASF outbreak, it would impact more than just us, said Jon Tangen, a veterinarian with Hanor, during an event to learn how to use composting to dispose of pig carcasses in a disease outbreak.

Matt Anderson, DVM, remembers clearly when porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) hit the U.S. swine herd. It shaped his perspective in ways he never imagined.

Readily available poisons used to control feral pig numbers could soon be banned in Queensland. The state government announced a plan to ban the use of poisons that included carbon disulphide and phosphorus.

While global pork exports were expected to suffer a setback in 2022, the outlook is increasingly grim, USDA Foreign Agriculture Service said in the July 12 Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade report.

Bottlenecks along U.S. railways are growing more severe. Not only are feed users on the West Coast on the brink of running out of grain, but there are also concerns the rail issues could grow worse during harvest.

With little to no diesel readily available to fuel harvest, wheat and other grains languish in the country’s fields. One analyst says he expects the global wheat market will be shorted 10 million metric tons.