Hogs
This section outlines different aspects to improving hog health, including swine diseases, vaccines, antibiotic use, and biosecurity. This section also gives management advice, such as handling, facilities, new products, and technology.
Pork Powerhouses 2023: Sow numbers, pig profits down while productivity up
The National Pork Board gives more grant money than any other checkoff. Critics say it favors Big Pork.
What do pork and apples have in common? Gene-editing
Solving the pig mortality puzzle takes a team, researchers say
Pork producer gives consumers a peek behind the curtain through social media
Replace DDGS with monounsaturated soybean oil, studies show
Boehringer Ingelheim develops PRRS handbook
Pork Powerhouses 2022: Sow numbers increase slightly despite high production costs
New calculator helps pork producers measure, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions
New PRRS research shows a need for a united shield
Pork powerhouse began as a small Tennessee family farm
Farmers await testing on PRRS resistant hogs
Feed efficiency starts at the gut level of the pig
How to properly evaluate sow condition
Building a vertically-integrated, niche hog farm
Keep your hogs heat-stress free
African swine fever vaccine candidate moves one step closer to market
Will insects be the new ingredient in your animal feed?
Iowa State veterinarians are researching unusual strain of swine bacteria
New swine vaccine to aid producers in fighting against reproductive diseases
Blister Diseases
Technology enables pork producers to better understand the needs of animals
Illinois-based swine genetics company founded by The Maschhoffs is acquired
Sow management in 2022 and beyond
Cleaning Pig Feed Bins
ASF swine vaccine shows promise, but long journey ahead
Pork Powerhouses 2021: Bouncing back from COVID-19
Legacy of service
Piglets to pork chops
Labor and line speeds are priorities for pork producers
Costs high for pig farmers today, but profits still there
83 Smithfield lagoons in Missouri now producing renewable natural gas
Learning opportunities in pork industry
105,000 sows stacked six stories high
ASF will never be eliminated in China, says swine consultant
We are in the beginnings of a commodity super cycle, says Global AgriTrends CEO
15 minutes with pasture pig farmer David Borrowman
Swine Influenza-A
Overall health of pigs improving every year, says sow management clinic
Choosing a sow
Tips on avoiding nuisance suits
More turnover and consolidation facing pig farmers
What the pork industry learned from the coronavirus debacle
Pork Powerhouses 2020: Backing up
How Christensen Farms worked its way through COVID-19
Sandy Road Farms buys assets of Kansas Smith Farms
TED talks for the swine industry
Real Pork launched as new strategy for National Pork Board
Smithfield Foods loses $72 million in second quarter due to COVID-19 expenses
Maxwell Foods shutting down hog operation
Kemin acquires patent application to control African swine fever in feed
New project hopes to ID gaps in swine disease spread
Record high hog numbers, up 5% from year ago
Iowa Select Farms expanding finishing capacity after supply chain disaster
Animal rights group targeting Iowa pig farmers depopulating herds
New USDA plan for African swine fever includes feral swine response
$40 a pig to help cover disposal costs for Iowa producers
2 million pigs backed up on farms, plants still short labor, but there is good news
Iowa Select Farms forced to euthanize some of swine herd
Positive news in the pig business, but still many concerns
Smithfield phasing in opening of Sioux Falls pork plant
Covid-19 outbreak hits Rantoul, Illinois, pork plant
Impacts of COVID-19 on pig production and pork processing