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Meteorologists Michael Clark and Kirk Hinz of BAMwx.com are talking near-term weather and into August.
The Sow Pelvic Organ Prolapse project is the first study in the multi-discipline search for pig survivability answers. The research is funded by Checkoff’s animal science and welfare committees.
As agriculture itself has diversified, so has its workforce. In response, AgCareers.com conducted the Workplace Diversity Survey to capture employer’s efforts to address diversity within their organizations.
Activist groups — one in particular — that demonize animal agriculture’s use of antibiotics have coined a new term in support of their mission, and it’s one that is super inappropriate.
Canada’s retaliatory tariffs against the United States — worth $16.6 billion — will clearly come at a cost, not only to the American economy, but also the Canadian economy.
In June, the House of Representatives worked on two immigration bills but both failed. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) isn’t sure if anyone will have the “political desire” to get something worked on and passed in July.
The Working Groups advise on the direct work of the Swine Health Information Center, helping with programs, research, and response.
The Swine Health Information Center is engaged in investigating Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) and in the development of a convenient test to identify its presence.
The cost of lab-grown burgers have fallen much faster than anticipated—and it can now compete on price with beef.
To maintain consumer confidence, the pork industry needs to train employees on how to properly give shots so no needles are ever broken.
The pork industry appears to be headed for a period of large losses in which excess pork supplies force prices below costs of production, says Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist.
The 2018 Farm Bill will be hammered out in a House-Senate conference committee, where lawmakers must reconcile differences between the two chambers.
U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), a leader in consumer engagement for food and agriculture, has selected Erin Fitzgerald from Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy as its next CEO.
Proposals are now being accepted for grants up to $20,000 to support small-scale projects and pilot studies that address prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury.
If meat is grown in a lab, what should it be called? That question has yet to be decided, but for the moment it’s pitting animal rights advocates and others against livestock producers in a war of words.
If your company’s logo is on your ball cap, your cooler jacket or even your vehicle, you are indeed an ambassador. A walking banner. A representative of your organization.
There is a distinct possibility that we have entered a new “cold tariff-war” that lingers for perhaps years?
Zoetis adds a monovalent swine vaccine with two PCV2 genotypes, Featherlite makes improvements to its new models, and Hypor adds Charlie McKenzie to its sales force.
Bob Utterback of Utterback Marketing and Doug Werling of Bower Trading hash it out with U.S. Farm Report host Tyne Morgan on this week’s Markets Now.
The Pork Board is moving away from consumer-direct, generic advertising, and taking on more of a business-to-business consulting role.
The Swine Health Information Center is collaborating with USDA Ag Research Service, USDA-APHIS, National Pork Board, and other key researchers to help understand possible pathways to introducing FMD into the U.S.
Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms, writes about how the Pork Care Package program began and the positive impact it has had on Iowa’s service men and women.
Very little positive news is entering the market to support soybean prices. The potential size of the soybean crop and trade uncertainty continue to be the main forces behind soybean price weakness.
Alyssa Cornelison joins Zinpro as a research assistant and Paul Peetz joins the Lely team as milking technology manager.
The outlook for trade has darkened considerably in recent days; a gamble in the trade arena that holds substantial risk for American farmers.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney is leading a trade mission to Japan this week. It concludes on June 15.
With more supplies coming online, Seaboard Triumph Foods will start a second shift at its Sioux City plant in October 2018. At full capacity, the plant will employ 2,000 employees and process 21,000 market hogs daily.
The Trump administration announced Friday it is moving forward on slapping tariffs on imported goods for China as the trade fight widens.
The National Pork Producers Council is calling for Thailand’s preferential access to the U.S. market to be revoked or reduced if it does not end its unwarranted ban on U.S. pork.
What’s new, what’s trendy in food? What are other people eating (that we’re not)? Good to know — except this report details what people are planning to buy, not what they’ll actually eat.