Source: Keloland
Only registered Sioux Falls voters will decide whether new slaughterhouses will be allowed to be built inside city limits through a municipal ballot measure.
The group called Smart Growth Sioux Falls turned in more than 10,000 signatures to get...
Source: Yicai Global
The market structure of China’s pig-breeding industry has undergone rapid changes in recent years, with New Hope Group, a giant among domestic swine and poultry breeders and feed producers, expanding its production scale rapidly.
As such “achieving the...
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based biofuels company POET has donated more than $1 million to oppose the Wholestone Farms pork plant in the city, according to campaign disclosure reports in the Argus Leader.
The reports show that POET donated $1,080,950 to Smart...
Source: Tri State Neighbour
Several organizations came together to honor the work of South Dakota pork producers Nov. 2.
While Pork Month technically ended Oct. 31, South Dakota Pork Producers Council (SDPPC), Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, Stockyards Ag Experience...
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is now accepting applications for the 2023 Lois Britt Memorial Pork Industry Scholarship awards. Ten $2,500 scholarships are awarded to students annually who intend to pursue a career in the pork industry with...
Source: Southeast Iowa Union
ee and Harold Sandquist of rural Jefferson County received a prestigious honor this year when they were named “Niman Ranch Hog Farmers of the Year.”
The Jefferson County couple raise 800 head of hogs from wean to...
Seaboard Pork has acquired hog inventory and a hog farm operation in the central United States from The Maschhoffs LLC for a total cash consideration of $58 million, Seaboard disclosed Tuesday in a regulatory filing.
The added operation increases the...
A Mississippi State College of Forest Resources graduate student has taken advantage of a recent opportunity to study feral swine as a fellow for a leading conservation agency, and his work has focused on developing a prioritization tool for...
“In 2019, we were facing an incredible dilemma,” recounts The Maschhoffs’ Vice President of Support Operations Gerry Daignault. “Griggsville is our main feed facility, processing 350,000 tons of grain each year to feed more than 25 percent of the...
South Dakota State University animal science students competed during the recent Swine Day with their posters that illustrated their research projects. Graduate student Shannon Dierking of Tecumseh, Nebraska shares her research involving gilts. Dierking won the graduate student category.