Hog Production
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.
PRRS costs the swine industry $560 to $660 million annually, with the breeding herd costs accounting for 45% of the total industry cost.
News outlets reporting China proposed to buy roughly $70 billion worth of U.S. ag and energy products if the US lifts its tariffs. However, some in the administration say the number is flawed.
April pork export volume was 230,049 metric tons (mt), up 13% from a year ago and topping the previous high set in November 2016.
The results of more than 120 agricultural research trials conducted last year at Iowa State University’s Research and Demonstration Farms are available online and can be downloaded at no charge.
The 30th annual World Pork Expo is just around the corner. You’ll find plenty of innovation, education and opportunities for networking at the show, held June 6-8 at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
Belstra Milling was instrumental in starting Fair Oaks Farms, and since Farm Journal’s PORK is featuring Nick DeKryger of Belstra Milling this week, here’s the article Wyatt Bechtel wrote when The Pig Adventure began.
While feed and ingredients are not the most likely sources of introduction and transmission, they are a documented vector for disease. Here’s some common Q&As.
It is beginning to look like the most severe part of the fear-based reaction to tariffs is easing, as negotiators for the U.S. and Mexico near a new deal. But you can’t just stop trade without hurt on all sides.
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.
According to results of a recent study at the University of Illinois, pigs are able to digest fiber efficiently, even at high inclusion rates.
In a Raleigh, N.C., courtroom Tuesday, jury selection began in the second of 26 nuisance cases against Smithfield Foods, continuing a campaign to forever change hog production practices in the state.
Brad Rippey, USDA meteorologist, says Hurricane Florence could do the kind of damage to the mid-Atlantic region that Harvey did to east Texas in 2017. The majority of North Carolina’s hog farms are in the storm path.
USDA’s World Agricultura Supply and Demand Estimates for September project higher production numbers for corn but soybean, which raised ending stocks for both.
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.
As harvest approaches, Chad Hart, associate professor of economics at Iowa State University, urges farmers to watch their costs and be patient as they face a difficult market for corn and soybeans.
Looking at hog sales in March 2019 using April 2019 futures, the weaner breakeven was $43.44, up $1.74 for the week. Feed costs were up $0.41 per head. These numbers are for the week ending Sept. 7.
As the U.S. economy continues to grow and unemployment dwindles, labor scarcity and wage inflation threaten the rural economy and put additional stress on profitability of the agriculture industry
If the upturn in corn and soybeans this week felt familiar—you’re right. Corn and soybean prices reacted exactly like they did one year ago, by moving higher at the end of August.
U.S. exports of grain in all forms (GIAF) are on track to set a new record in 2017/2018, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and analysis by the U.S. Grains Council.
Moises Kalach says teams are working hard to land a deal, but getting to agreement will depend on the White House, he says.
The things I see every day are foreign to many people, whether they live two minutes or two hundred miles from my farm. I needed to open the doors to our farm in order to open the minds of others.
A creative new application for CRISPR is a platform to spur evolution of specific genes inside cells. “EvolvR,” lets scientists shake up the DNA letters in their gene of choice until they find the right variation.
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.
The pork organizations argued that there is no compelling need for the gag order, the District Court did not consider alternatives to the order, the order is overbroad and vague, and it won’t be effective.
The investigative arm of I.C.E. led the operation that saw about a dozen businesses and plants raided and 17 business owners and managers indicted for fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.
A new twist brings back a traditional farming practice. Growing crops and producing livestock on the same farms has a number of benefits for producers.
Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other organizations have shown that human influences significantly impact the size of the seasonal cycle of temperature in the lowest layer of the atmosphere.