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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 national pork supplier promised Thursday to investigate abuse allegations at one of its Nebraska facilities after an animal rights group released an undercover video showing pigs with open wounds and other health problems.
On Wednesday, PORK Network made The Maschhoffs, one of the nation’s largest pork producers, aware of undercover video footage alleging animal abuse at one of its breeding facilities in Nebraska. The video was released by the activist group Animal Legal Defense Fund.
North Dakota’s hog and dairy industries are hoping voters will bless state lawmakers’ decision to allow non-family corporations to own operations, but it could be a tough sell in a state that has safeguarded its family farming heritage for nearly a century.
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.
Plans to expand a pig farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania are moving forward.
For Nate and LouAnn Robinson of Jake’s Country Meats in Cass County, Mich., the supply and demand situation doesn’t matter: Their prices for their pasture-raised pork stay the same.
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 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.
A North Las Vegas pig farm famous for recycling leftover casino buffet food is soon going up for auction.
Protect your herd by preparing now for potential outbreaks.
South Africa’s driest weather in more than a century has destroyed more than 5 percent of the nation’s cattle and pork-breeding herds, fueling food prices and hitting jobs, lawmakers heard on Tuesday.
The nation’s only ban on meatpackers owning hogs has ended due to a new Nebraska law that allows processers to control the animals from birth to slaughter.
Fatty acids, well known to have a positive effect on human nutrition, may also one day help to protect pigs from a deadly virus.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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).
Cargill Inc., one of the world’s biggest agriculture companies, posted a 77 percent gain in net income in the fiscal second quarter after the $1.45 billion sale of its U.S. pork business.
Kansas’ war on feral swine is being fought largely on a 40-mile front along the Oklahoma state line.
A report by two federal agencies say there is no significant impact to the Buffalo National River from a nearby hog farm.
The latest report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows hogs and pigs in South Dakota on Dec. 1 totaled 1.36 million head.
Researchers collaborate to develop the first generation of pigs resistant to PRRS.
Researchers announce a new breakthrough regarding the PRRS virus.
Kansas environmental regulators have approved a permit for a new hog-feeding complex in Greeley County, a move that will vastly expand Seaboard Foods’ operations in the state and generate wastes that conservationists say are equivalent to a city of 1 million people.
Undercover videos have been top for mind for all sectors of the agriculture industry and activists aren’t going to stop using the tactic anytime soon.
One recipe for renewable natural gas goes: Place manure from about 2 million hogs in lagoons, cover them with an impermeable material and let it bake until gas from the manure rises. Then, use special equipment to clean the gas of its impurities and ship the finished product out.