The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) applauds USDA’s decision to allow eligible pork harvest facilities to continue experimenting with ergonomics, automation, and crewing while maintaining line speeds that have been proven able to protect food and worker safety for...
Pork Industry Report - M. Wright President NPPA on USMEF Trade Mission
Brentwood Colony of Faulkton, South Dakota, has placed a specific focus on profitability in business. The pig entity of Brentwood Colony, ProPork, takes a community perspective, with a swine business mentality. This allows the team to track accurate financial...
NutriQuest announced today that Kim Friesen, Ph.D., will become President of NutriQuest, effective March 1. Dr. Friesen joined the company as Chief Scientific Officer in 2015 and has been instrumental in providing overall leadership to NutriQuest research and product...
Source: The Oklahoman
Oklahoma held its first-ever conference to discuss humane treatment for pigs Wednesday.
About 100 animal welfare advocates gathered on National Pig Day to talk about how the animals are treated, particularly female sows, at an event organized and...
Purdue University, for the first time, has been named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies - coming in at No. 16 overall and No. 1 in education - for its advances in the vital field of semiconductors and...
Shares of Hormel Foods Corp. HRL, -4.56% took 5.1% hit toward a more than 15-month low in premarket trading Thursday, after the branded foods company, with brands including Planters, Skippy, Spam and Natural Choice, reported fiscal first-quarter results that...
Hog slaughter was lower last week as snowstorms disrupted the transportation of hogs to processing facilities. U.S. hog producers are still incentivized to pull hogs forward as current prices are below the cost of production.
Steiner and Company produces the...
PigCareers and Continental Search are pleased to announce the launching of their Swine Live Production Salary Survey. This comprehensive survey will gather data on the current salary trends of swine industry professionals in the US and Canada.
With the support...
Source: Swine Tech
Farming, undeniably, is a profession that takes hard work. Passed down through families and generations, it’s a hands-on, dedicated skill to earn, but what if it could be made more efficient so that producers can spread that...