Health

  Showing pigs is a dynamic part of the pig industry in the United States. More than a million pigs are born, bred and raised for the show ring each year. But with that exciting part of the pork industry, comes a responsibility to practice good biosecurity to help protect people and pigs from disease threats....More

A new cell line that rapidly and accurately detects foot-and-mouth disease (FDM) virus has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists....More

Missouri pork producer Chris Chinn, who serves as a Face of Farming & Ranching for U.S. Farmers& Ranchers Alliance, shatters the myth that hogs are regularly fed antibiotics....More

Proposed legislation by three senators calling for more data on use of antibiotics in food-producing animals will not prove informative, and would actually be a waste of resources, says Iowa State University veterinary blogger Scott Hurd....More

Feral swine are not native to the United States. They are a cross between feral domestic swine introduced by Spanish explorers in the 1500s and the Eurasian boar, blogs Gail Keirn of USDA’s Animal and Plant Inspection Service. Feral swine have been called the “rototillers” of nature. Their longs snouts and tusks allow them to rip and root their way across America in search of food. Unfortunately, the path they leave behind impacts ranchers, farmers, land managers, conservationists, and suburbanites alike....More