Scientists in Belgium are investigating a farmer's claim that different styles of music affect the behaviour of his pigs.
Piet Paesmans first noticed the phenomenon when his son started singing a tune in the barn during a sluggish insemination session...
Source: Mitchell Republic
The latest expansion on the horizon for the Greenways operation is largely being driven by a new California state law called Proposition 12, which put a ban on buying any pork products from operations that breed pigs...
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A three-year benchmarking project being conducted by the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board will shed new light on the frequency and application of antimicrobial drugs on the province's swine farms. In...
Source: Vice.com
Clinical human trials of the intestinal breathing method could start as early as this year.
Pink, fleshy, and round, the anus has a lot in common with the mouth and is every bit as important.
But the similarities don’t just...
The BinSentry Board of Directors is pleased to announce and welcome Ben Allen as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in one of the company’s most promising moments of technology growth.
Ben Allen will bring decades of experience in agriculture...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is increasing the amount of funding available for the Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP) and expects to issue approximately $62.8 million in pandemic assistance payments to hog producers starting this week. SMHPP assists...
Source: Pork Checkoff
Nobody promotes U.S. pork better than U.S. pork producers.
Last month, Joe Dykhuis, co-owner of Dykhuis Farms in Michigan, and Courtney Knupp, NPB’s VP of international market development, traveled to the United Kingdom to participate in a cross-commodity...
Source: Law 360
A Minnesota federal judge approved nearly $34 million in fees on Friday for the attorneys who helped direct buyers of pork score more than $100 million from settlements with Smithfield Foods Co. and JBS USA Food Co....
Source: Missouri Farmer Today
At the new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas, researchers and veterinarians will take on the animal disease challenges facing agriculture.
The facility’s director of communications, Katie Pawlosky, says it will have the country’s first...
Ellen Francis, Kareem Fahim and Claire Parker reported on the front page of Sunday’s Washington Post that, “Russian missiles hit the Black Sea port of Odessa on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, imperiling a deal Moscow and Kyiv reached a...