US hog supplies are tightening and wholesale pork and cash hog prices have trended higher lately, even though the rate of gain hasn’t been great.

Professor John McGlone of Texas Tech University trekked to Manitoba, Canada, in the dead of winter to warn hundreds of local pork farmers that the way they did business was about to change. McGlone knew McDonald’s Corp., the world’s largest restaurant chain, planned to say it would only buy pork from producers who didn’t keep

Lynch Family Companies, Inc., of Waucoma, Iowa, also known as “Lynch Livestock,” pled guilty on July 29, 2022, to one count of Failing to Comply with an Order of the Secretary of Agriculture. On February 10, 2023, Lynch Livestock was sentenced to five years of probation, fined $196,000, and ordered to pay over $3 million

According to the latest beef consumer report from NCBA, a contractor to the beef checkoff, demand for beef remains strong. The compilation of research from 2022 reveals that despite various challenges faced by the industry, consumers repeatedly have stated they will continue purchasing beef, both in retail and foodservice. 

The power of three also works in other arenas. In physics–Newton’s three laws of motion. In screenwriting–The three-act structure. In basketball–The NBA has always had Big Threes from Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, and Elgin Baylor to Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman to LeBron James, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade and so on.

Routine mortalities represent a small proportion of herd and occur throughout the course of normal production. Catastrophic mortality events involve high death losses within a distinct period of time. These methods can also be used for catastrophic loses but the larger scale in a shorter time frame often increases process intensity. Additionally if losses are

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is celebrating the Agency’s many successful efforts to protect American agriculture and natural resources over the past year.

Spring is just around the corner and with it comes one of the busiest times of year for many livestock owners — show season. In preparation, exhibitors need to know the importance of a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI), more commonly known as a health certificate. Any time an animal moves into another state, a

the Humane Society of the United States submitted a Colorado Open Records Act request seeking extensive documents related to the 41 dead cattle in Meeker. The HSUS received the CPW’s documents and photos in February.

We have all seen it, the graph showing that just 4% of the world’s mammals, by weight, are wild; humans account for 36%, and livestock for the remaining 60%.* It is certainly deplorable that there are so few wild mammals. Most people using these figures and probably most people hearing them, draw the conclusion that domestic