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“Adam will emphasize the significance of basic agronomic traits in ensuring yield stability, as well as a focus on dry matter and starch yield,” said Fred Hall, dairy specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach.

Locations for this hunt include Upper and Lower Cottonwood Creek and the San Luis Reservoir wildlife areas, both in western Merced County.

Jesse Replogle, host of the pasture walk, will provide a brief overview of the location’s current rotational grazing pasture system.

The primary tool of genetic selection of beef cattle is expected progeny difference, EPD, which merges progeny records, pedigree and genomic information to estimate breeding values.

When hay can’t be found and water is scarce, older cattle and those not bred are sold to reduce expenses. This year, the Coker family’s thorough pregnancy checking improved the operation’s efficiency.

The lack of a regulatory threshold has been a significant barrier to the approval of hempseed cake in animal feed.

At the beginning of July, all pork products sold in California must meet Prop 12 requirements, unless efforts to delay—which are already happening—are successful. If unsuccessful, Steve Meyer, lead economist at Partners for Production Agriculture, told Global Hog Industry Virtual Conference (GHIVC) attendees that two channels of pork into the state will likely emerge: one

A SHIC-funded effort aimed at increasing swine disease awareness, prevention, and preparedness, The Early Regional Occurrence Warning project, was launched by Drs. Xiaomei Yue and Mariana Kikuti with the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project in September 2022. On May 9, 2023, the first TEROW report was sent to participants and will be released weekly. Through

On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld California’s new humane-pork law, Proposition 12, in a 5-4 decision, choosing not to accept the challenge by the National Pork Producers Council and American Farm Bureau Federation. Since the decision, the pork industry has been filled with a number of questions and unknowns about how California’s

This market update is a PorkBusiness.com weekly column reporting trends in weaner pigs. All information contained in this update is for the week ended May 26.  NutriQuest Business Solutions publishes weekly weaner pig profitability calculations which uses industry representative production costs and futures pricing for lean hogs, corn and soybean meal, using historical basis assumptions,