The National Pork Producers Council hosted a policy panel discussion June 5 at the 2024 World Pork Expo, Des Moines, Iowa, where producer-leaders and experts highlighted the need to work with both ...

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As we enter October — aka “Porktober” — the pork production industry faces a range of challenges, from a struggling market to biosecurity threats. For insights into that industry, Tyne Morgan and ...

Pork producers concerned regulation will strain relationships between the United States and its trading partners, ...

A meatcase full of restaurant-quality pork is no longer a nice-to-have for consumers, it’s a must have. As more and more customers strive for better meal experiences at home, Prairie Fresh is here to ...

SHANNON, Ill. — Darrell Stitzel’s grandparents moved to a farm in Carroll County in northwestern Illinois 65 years ago. His wife Laurie’s father started his career as a tenant farmer in South Dakota.

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FILE - In this May 20, 2020, file photo, residents cheer and hold thank-you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they begin their shift in Sioux Falls, S.D. Workers on ...

US pork prices could spike 50% due to a new California animal-welfare law, a pork producer CEO said. The law means farmers in California, or who sell to California, must give breeding pigs more space.