The pork industry looks for growth in 2025 as recent projections show anticipated growth in production. USDA’s Gary Crawford reports. Sponsored ContentStrong Relationship Exists Between the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and UF-IFASApril 17, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding For Quicker Response to Research QuestionsApril 10, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Opportunities That Spark Research ProjectsApril 3, 2026United Dairy Farmers …
Hog Producers Should Be on High Alert for Signs of ASF
As African Swine Fever (ASF) spreads through Asia and Eastern Europe, Gary Crawford reports U.S. hog producers are being urged to boost biosecurity measures and watch their herds closely for signs of sickness. USDA Chief Veterinarian Dr. Jack Shere lists some of the symptoms pigs can show when infected with ASF. Sponsored ContentStrong Relationship Exists Between the Florida Cattle Enhancement …
Farm Groups Demand Justice for North Carolina Hog Farmers
A judgment stemming from a $50 million verdict must be overturned, farm groups told a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia. Earlier last year, juries in three separate trials in Raleigh, North Carolina, awarded punitive damages of more than $500 million to neighbors of North Carolina hog farms. Plaintiffs claimed the odor and truck noise related to the farms should …
African Swine Fever Accelerating in China
China reported a new case of African swine fever this week, raising risks of a further spread of the disease. The new outbreak is the seventh reported since early August. A Rabobank analyst told Reuters that “it looks like it’s accelerating,” and creating the expectation that farmers will start selling off pigs before they are forced to cull animals if …
U.S. Pork Farmers Get Outstanding Return on Checkoff Investment
A 2017 study says U.S. pork farmers get a very positive return on their checkoff investment. The study was done by Harry Kaiser at Cornell University. 91 percent of the pork farmers who took part in the November survey acknowledge their overwhelming support of the pork checkoff, knocking opposition levels down to just three percent. The National Pork Board commissions …
Agri View: Hog Farming
Everett Griner talks about hog farming in today’s Agri View. Raising hogs is hard work. Everett checks out what the new Guest Worker Program may do for hog farming and pork production. Hog Farming Sponsored ContentStrong Relationship Exists Between the Florida Cattle Enhancement Board and UF-IFASApril 17, 2026Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Provides Funding For Quicker Response to Research QuestionsApril 10, …
Canadian Problems with PEDv Continue to Grow
The continued surge of a piglet-killing virus in Canada is starting to threaten a share of pork supplies in the U.S. Fifty cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, or PEDv, have been confirmed in Manitoba between May 1 and July 4th. The virus has affected over 63,000 sows at hog operations in southeast Manitoba, Canada’s third biggest pork producer. Bloomberg …