As feed costs continue to climb, pork producers are redoubling efforts to maximize pig growth and efficiency. In some cases, that means updating or reconfiguring grow-finish facilities to match breed-to-wean pig flows, while older, ill-matched facilities are being razed and replaced
Two Iowa legislators have reintroduced legislation aimed at stopping undercover activities of animal activists around livestock producers’ farms.
The measure introduced by Sen. Joe Seng (D-IA) and Sen. Tim Kapucian (R-IA), a former president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association (IPPA), is known as the Ag Protection Act (House File 589), according to Cody McKinley, public policy director for the IPPA....More
Research conducted at stations across the United States has documented a 29% reduction in the consumption of heating fuel in reduced nocturnal temperature (RNT) nursery rooms without any negative effects on pig performance. Average savings is about $1.71/pig leaving the nursery...More
Livestock organizations are working together to submit comments pertaining to the proposed new rule referred to as the Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) 308 rule...More
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed on-farm child labor regulations have been getting a lot of attention in agricultural circles lately. Under the proposed rules, youth under the age of 16 would be prohibited from performing work, which the Labor Secretary defines as “hazardous,” on farms that are not owned by the child’s parents...More
The White House has threatened to veto House Republican legislation aimed at preventing the Environmental Protection Agency from tightening farm dust regulations, arguing that the bill in unnecessary and could be used to weaken public health standards...More
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) along with the American Sheep Industry Association and the National Turkey Federation has jointly submitted comments on the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed on-farm child labor regulations...More
Lantz Enterprises’ farm manager Doug Siebenahler will never forget the PRRS outbreak of 2007. Two strains of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) struck with a vengeance...More
Every farm is only 250 days away from PRRS-free production,” states Joel Nerem, DVM, director of health, Pipestone (MN) Vet-erinary Clinic and Pipestone System....More
There has been a groundswell of interest in filtering swine barns to block swine diseases, most notably for keeping out porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), but also for preventing the introduction of swine influenza virus and Mycoplasma pneumonia...More
