New data on the total number of farms in the U.S. is out, and the overall numbers continue to dwindle. According to USDA, there were 2...
Kara Elizabeth (Behlke) Ungerman, 40, passed away due to complications after giving birth to her firstborn child, Oliver Nolan Ungerman on Aug. 4. Before she passed,...
Keeping sows in ideal body condition can be a balancing act. Females that are too thin entering farrowing may have greater stillbirth rates, be more likely...
Some big U.S. pork producers who have spent money to comply with a California law requiring more living space for certain farm animals are lukewarm about...
A wheelchair didn’t stop Joel from showing a pig at the 2023 Ohio State Fair. Joel was one of many participants between 9 and 22 years...
The U.S. pork industry has a plan to help keep foreign animal diseases like African swine fever (ASF) out of the country, but it requires everyone...
A U.S. District Court for Massachusetts judge has extended the current stay on implementation of Question 3 (Q3) until Aug. 23. Q3, a 2016 ballot initiative...
At the end of February, there were 9.9 million job openings in the U.S., compared to 5.8 million people who are currently unemployed, according to the...
By David Verhoeven, Iowa State University While effective vaccines for COVID-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same...
The latest Swine Disease Reporting System report has some people scratching their heads. For the first time in recent memory, porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) jumped into the...