Hogs - General
The pork industry is a buzz with carbon reduction goals and even carbon neutrality. Pipestone’s Roger Cochrane shares strategies farmers can use to reduce carbon dioxide emission equivalents and improve sustainability.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed, overloaded, scattered? Generally, pandemic or not, leaders feel at least a little bit this way all the time, explains leadership coach Marlene Eick. She says the question is, is this ok?
A fire killed 12,000 pigs and destroyed two buildings at a southern Minnesota farm on May 16. No injuries were reported for farm staff or fire crews.
Last month, in an effort to address a severe pork shortage in the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte temporarily reduced tariff rates on imported pork cuts and announced plans for a larger pork import quota.
With rising feed costs and higher market weights, it has never been more important to choose the right feeder for your hog operation.
Kemin Industries acquires Bio-Cide. Ralco celebrates 50 years. Smithfield increases water conservation efforts. PigTek names new product manager. Check out the latest industry news briefs here.
The National Pork Producers Council filed comments last week on two Massachusetts bills related to Question 3, a 2016 ballot initiative which prohibits the sale of pork produced using certain production methods.
After a two-year hiatus, NPPC president Jen Sorenson says she couldn’t be more excited for the World Pork Expo, the industry’s hallmark event. Here’s a look at this year’s seminar line-up.
March beef and pork exports each posted the highest monthly value on record. Pork exports and shipments of beef muscle cuts also set new volume records in March.
Vietnam needs pork and U.S. pork producers have the answer. Unfortunately trade barriers continue to stand in the way. On May 5, lawmakers sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai seeking her support.
It’s no secret PRRS is a cunning enemy in swine herds. New research out of the University of Minnesota proves how sneaky this virus is and these findings could lay the groundwork for more effective vaccines.
“Suck it up buttercup.” This familiar phrase is one many farmers and ranchers learn early in life: be tough, self-reliant and resilient. But experts say that approach doesn’t work when dealing with stress.
U.S. pork processor Seaboard Foods wants to pursue a 10-1/2-month delay to a federal court decision that would force it to slow the speed of hog slaughtering at a massive Oklahoma plant, according to court documents.
The chicken wing shortage is ruffling a few feathers, reports AgDay host Clinton Griffiths. Restaurants are reporting a shortage of chicken wings, specifically bone-in varieties. Can pig wings fill the void?
What’s driving higher prices? Pork product demand. Kent Bang of Compeer Financial explores the factors that have affected demand and the headwinds that impact product delivery to consumers today and in the future.
California’s Proposition 12 will have wide-reaching implications. It’s a clear regulatory overreach and a violation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, says NPPC’s Michael Formica.
Secretary Vilsack flatly denied there is any effort by President Biden to reduce meat consumption to meet proposed cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. “Sometimes in the political world, games get played,” he said.
When hunter Michael Bennett bought eight pigs at a sale barn, the wheels began turning on one of the most bizarre feral hog stories on record, and unleashed questions over guilt, innocence, and state power.
Members of the National Pork Producers Council sent a letter to USTR Katherine Tai about trade with Vietnam. The group says that ASF is impacting the hog herd, but trade barriers are impacting exports.
It started with a broken baler. The farmer panicked. He had recently lost his brother to cancer and his father to old age. Not to mention he had 2,500 acres to farm, 250 beef cows to attend to and his crop just froze.
There’s no question the pandemic has changed the way consumers shop, cook and eat. And reflecting on the past year, Kiersten Hafer of One Mind, says, “It’s safe to say when the going gets tough, the tough eat meat.”
China is continuing to make big imports of feed grains and pork. Numbers released by China’s Customs Administration Sunday shows the country imported 16% more pork in March.
For over three decades, Mark Hayden, director of sales for AP, the swine equipment division of AGCO Grain and Protein, has taken lessons learned from his father to heart.
Details of a U.S. land and water related executive order could be unveiled soon. Known as the ’30 by 30’ plan, it would place 30% of U.S. lands and 30% of U.S. waters under federal jurisdiction by 2030.
What do the blockage of the Suez Canal for several days and the run on feta cheese resulting from a recipe that went viral have in common? They both place unexpected stresses on supply chains.
University of Illinois researchers say the domestic pig is ideal for biomedical research studies because their brain size, rate of development and digestive system are excellent analogues for human newborns.
Two neighbors who’ve spent more than a decade perfecting their barbecue are this year’s Pulled Pork Madness winners. Their restaurant, Smokin’ Butt Barbeque in Davenport, Iowa, received the most votes.
Anticipation of a return to normal is in the air, CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange said in its latest quarterly report. But for the economy and rural industries, there will be no going back to pre-COVID conditions.
View Farm Journal’s PORK’s free one-hour webinar on California’s animal welfare regulation, Prop 12. Find out what industry experts have to say about how it could impact the U.S. pork industry and entire supply chain.
Animal rights activist Matthew Johnson with the group Direct Action Everywhere has been charged with trespassing at a food operation for his Feb. 5 presence outside an Iowa Select Farms sow operation in Dows, Iowa.