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Eli Lilly & Co.’s Elanco Animal Health Inc. business raised $1.5 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed price range.
Lingering flood waters are making it hard for farmers to recover after Hurricane Florence. Farmers are taking unusual steps to reach hog barns and forcing them to deliver feed through treacherous conditions.
Hog farmers in North Carolina are watching with great concern the still-rising flood waters brought by Hurricane Florence. Farmers are providing feed and care for animals and fuel to power ventilation systems in barns.
Dr. Liz Wagstrom, chief veterinarian of the National Pork Producers Council discusses the African swine fever outbreak in China, and Machinery Pete answers listener questions and shares his pick of the week.
Scientists are using light to activate oxygen, which then wipes out antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The method also could be used to treat other microbial infections, and possibly even cancer.
New real-time strategy for future foot-and-mouth outbreaks finds that focusing on surveillance and vaccination is most effective method to quickly fight spread of the virus, say researchers in England.
More than 8,000 hogs have been culled so far, as China continues emergency inspections at pig farms and livestock markets to control the country’s first case of African swine fever.
Two Iowa State University animal scientists were honored by their peers: Anna Johnson and Kenneth Stalder, were respectively presented the Animal Industry Service Award and ASAS Fellow in the extension award.
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives moved to go to conference on the 2018 Farm Bill, naming 47 representatives to serve on the conference committee with the U.S. Senate.
The Allen D. Leman Swine Conference is scheduled for Sept. 15-18 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul, Minn. The strong program offers three new additions this year.
The challenge of meeting ever-growing global food requirements, while protecting public health and animal welfare, means greater need for food-animal veterinarians.
After years of planning, funding requests, and resources, the facility to serve as the primary defense against accidental or intentional introduction of transboundary animal diseases is being built in Manhattan, Kan.
It’s hard to think about when animals need to be euthanized. It’s harder when you’re the one doing it. Veterinarians are put in that position often. Think what would happen if a foreign animal disease were to hit.
Beagle Brigade steps up to keep foreign animal disease out
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Agriculture Canine (K9) teams are making headlines as threats of African swine fever hitting U.S. soil are causing alarm within the pork industry.
China continues to deal with an outbreak of African swine fever.
With more than 10 Chinese providences reporting cases of African Swine Fever, a new report says this event could change the balance in the global protein sector.
The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA), the nation’s animal health forum for over a century, is holding its 122nd annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo., from Oct. 18-24.
Chinese company connected to seed trade secrets theft associated with the largest reported ASF pig culling to date.
Researchers from the University of Missouri, Kansas State University and Genus plc have successfully bred genetically edited pigs that are resistant to the deadly Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus (TGEV).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ag specialists and a Beagle K-9 at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport seized and destroyed a cooked pig found in checked luggage at the busiest airport in the world.
According to the swine disease global surveillance report from the University of and Swine Health Information Center, pig farmers continue to be plagued by multiple disease risks.
I don’t know about you, but I love looking out the window when I fly. There’s just something about seeing life from a different perspective.
Newly discovered compounds could revitalize older drugs, making them more effective against resistant superbugs. Research at the University of Colorado in Boulder shows promise.
Earlier this week, we wrote about seven specific skills that would lead to financial success for swine veterinarians. Here are seven income drivers and how they relate to performance of swine veterinarians.
Farm Journal’s PORK editor Jennifer Shike and editor emeritus JoAnn Alumbaugh recently attended the 2018 Leman Conference in Saint Paul, Minn. See their coverage of the event.
AgriTalk’s Chip Flory talked with Patrick Webb of the National Pork Board about China’s biosecurity challenges and the U.S. response plan if an ASF outbreak occurs.
Since the first case was reported on Sept. 13, Belgium has implemented numerous measures to contain the ASF outbreak in the region of Etalle, isolating a 240-sq.-mile zone.
The need for livestock protection increases as overseas disease threats continue to emerge.
There is considerable upside potential for veterinary incomes, and most swine veterinarians could do better, according to studies. These same factors apply to producers too.