Pork
An insatiable demand for bacon depleted frozen pork belly supplies in the U.S. to a record low level for December, but the pork industry is confident it can keep up with demand and avoid any serious shortages.
An undercover video filmed by animal rights activists has halted the purchases of pigs by Hormel from one of the company’s suppliers.
Race to save rare breed of pig hinges on eating them
Don’t expect a big change in hog prices in the short term, but barring major increases in production, producers should see an uptick as the year progresses. Here’s what to keep your eyes on.
Farmers can’t keep up and rising costs can boost inflation.
With hog prices seeing 7-year lows, could things return to the way they were in 1998?
A judge has found that two members of the Missouri Clean Water Commission violated their duty to be impartial while considering a large hog breeding operation in mid-Missouri.
Vietnam to top China per-capita consumption as incomes improve.
Prestage Farms will build new $240 million hog processing plant in Wright County after an earlier plan to build in Mason City failed.
We talked to pork industry leaders about domestic and international demand for the meat and the hurdles the industry is working through to make sure the world eats more pork.
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.
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.
Fatty acids, well known to have a positive effect on human nutrition, may also one day help to protect pigs from a deadly virus.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
A report by two federal agencies say there is no significant impact to the Buffalo National River from a nearby hog farm.
Researchers collaborate to develop the first generation of pigs resistant to PRRS.
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.
A farming company is trying to set the record straight about the odor produced by a hog facility it manages in Davison County, S.D.
Cheaper soybean meal prices will help take the edge off of the cost of feeding hogs in the year ahead, according to a recent study by Michael Langemeier, agricultural economist at Purdue University.
This Indiana farmer is bringing home top honors after being named the first-ever America’s Pig Farmer of the Year by the National Pork Board.
Travis Hood of Hood’s Heritage Hogs in Robertson County, Ky. is working to recreate an old breed of pig with the help of D’Lovely, an Andrus red wattle sow.