From data and cameras to sensors and science, Smart Farming is a persistent management strategy that empowers pork producers to collect, visualize and confidently act upon relevant insights. In turn, producers can optimize efficiency and sustainability despite environmental uncertainties.
Five contract growers share the barn tools and technnology that are essential in their barns and bring about the greatest return on investment.
By automating repetitive data tasks, artificial intelligence allows farm teams to spend less time behind a screen and more time focusing on animal husbandry and field work.
Four ways artificial intelligence helps these farmers manage their business.
The integration of artificial intelligence into financial systems is ushering in a more sophisticated era of tax management — one where software handles the heavy lifting.
The real “Bullet Train” moment for pork production isn’t just about adopting new software, but about redesigning how information flows across your entire operation to move from reacting to events to anticipating them.
Adron Belk uses data to cut costs, improve yields and make every decision, from fertilizer usage to what tire pressure he uses when planting. The precision-driven strategy is what’s helping drive profitability.
Precision Livestock Farming is shifting swine management from subjective assessments to data-driven accuracy, offering new ways to detect disease early and automate labor-intensive tasks. Here are three emerging technologies to consider.
New research reveals that continuous camera monitoring combined with targeted feedback can reduce biosecurity violations by more than 70% on commercial sow farms. How can this data-driven shift from reactive audits to proactive surveillance provide a high-return investment for your operation?
As global protein markets evolve, U.S. producers face a shifting landscape of technology breakthroughs and complex regulatory challenges. How will international adoption and consumer perception either disrupt or drive the future of the pork industry?
From AI-driven “social networks” to digital phenotyping, discover the high-tech tools redefining the future of pork production. In an age of algorithms, learn why curiosity and resilience are the ultimate keys to a producer’s success.
John Deere’s Deanna Kovar details how the company is cutting parts costs, adjusting production and responding to EPA moves on Right to Repair and DEF as farm income pressure keeps the ag equipment market in a downturn.
Cameras in pig production facilities have been dramatically helpful with procedural audits, both preventive and following disease outbreaks, to help track down verified and potential points of entry.
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful and transformative tool, offering innovative solutions to improve efficiency, animal welfare and profitability across all aspects of swine production.
Having your information compromised is a matter of when, not if, says Chris Sherman from Tech Support Farm.
Peace of mind, return on investment and the ability to make life-changing decisions faster are just a few reasons why pig farmers are making the decision to purchase more technology on the farm.
The industry has experienced quite an evolution in how sows are fed, says Mike Tokach. Now isn’t the time to stop finding ways to make that process better.
Early adopters have been amassing and recording data for a quarter-century or so. How do we turn that data into information, and information into knowledge?
Agriculture is complex, and the AgLaunch farmer network helps early-stage startups get traction
A new study reveals the importance of considering social behavior in animal management.
Labor is a limiting factor on many swine operations. These solutions might help you address sorting pigs, biosecurity efforts, treating pigs, monitoring feed inventory and moving boars or dead stock safely.
Lower feed costs and more domestic demand opportunity offer promising signs for the back half of year.
These space weather events can disturb the Earth’s magnetic field and at this severe level cause “more frequent and longer periods of GPS degradation.”
The ongoing threat of animal rights extremism is a national security concern, says Karen Meidenbauer, DVM. Here’s a look at the big topics discussed during the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s 2025 Stakeholders Summit.
FDA’s approval of PIC’s gene-editing technology marks a major milestone for consumers, farmers and the entire pork industry who have desperately hoped for a solution to PRRS, says PIC COO Matt Culbertson.
A University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine students studies how artificial intelligence can serve as a tool in scoring lung lesions of pig lungs and shares her thoughts on what’s ahead.
Four pork industry experts share their take on the possibilities artificial intelligence brings to pork production.
How will the “other AI” change the future of swine breeding? Four experts discuss what’s coming.