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Operation Main Street celebrates eight years
Pork’s positive messages are reaching far beyond meeting rooms and classrooms. Operation Main Street (OMS) presentations have generated more than 800 news stories with a reach of almost 29 million people.
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NPB to meet with Texas pork producers
The National Pork Board (NPB) will travel next week to Texas, where more than one of every three residents is of Hispanic descent, to explore opportunities to market more pork to the growing Hispanic population in the United States.
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Vote now for USFRA farming and ranching winners
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has identified nine finalists in its ‘Faces of Farming & Ranching’ program. Consumers and other farmers and ranchers around the country are asked to vote online for their favorites.
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Passionate about perfection
Judy Hinck's passion for animals began at an early age. She would take her homework into the farrowing barn as she monitored sows at her family's farrow-to-finish operation in Iowa. She showed animals in 4-H and FFA. And now, as farrowing manager at CD Bell in Belleville, Ill., she is one of five winners in the national Honoring Pork Caregivers program.
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Minnesota pork producers' meeting set for Dec. 4
The 2012 annual meetings for the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA) and Minnesota Pork Board (MPB) will be Dec. 4 at the Country Inn & Suites, Mankato.
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Livestock and poultry producers say RFS is ‘broken’
A coalition of livestock, poultry and dairy organizations on Friday expressed extreme disappointment in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) denial of a request to waive a federal law that mandates the level of ethanol to be blended into gasoline. According to the coalition, it is "abundantly clear that this law is broken, and we will explore remedies to fix it.”
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Baker named IPIC interim director
Rodney “Butch” Baker, DVM, senior clinician at the Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine department, Iowa State University, will use his experience and expertise in swine veterinary medicine to help guide the center’s work.
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Animal agriculture demand No. 1 for U.S. soy
This year’s drought affected most of the United States and also impacted many domestic poultry and livestock farmers. Higher prices for soybeans leave animal ag partners to pay more at the feed mill.
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Pfizer outlines veterinary scholarship program
For the fourth consecutive year, Pfizer Animal Health and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) invite second- and third-year students of veterinary medicine to apply for the Pfizer Animal Health Scholarship.
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PQA Plus advisor training set for Nov. 19
The recertification session is limited to the first 30 participants who preregister and pay the recertification fee of $50 per person.
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Ag companies build digital distribution system for FFA
The National FFA Organization, Rural TV, iHigh.com and Alltech have joined together to enable FFA to deliver educational materials and programs to middle- and high-school students across the U.S. through TV and Internet broadcasts.
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- Corn and soybean prices continue to retrace 2012 drought rally
- Swine virus confirmed in Iowa, Indiana hog herds
- Premium Standard Farms Founder Dies Unexpectedly
- USDA says has detected virus in Iowa hog population
- Commentary: GMOs: How do I hate thee?
- Weather report: Rain spreads across the Corn Belt
