Producer Retirement Program Unveiled at Expo
This week’s World Pork Expo was far from a celebration of, or by, the nation’s pork industry. Old friendships were renewed, some business was transacted and knowledge ...
Safeguarding Your Health and Safety
It is no secret that farming is a dangerous occupation. Here are five health hazards to guard against on your farm. Twenty-three percent of pork producers...
What is a Certified Safe Farm?
The CSF program is a research initiative launched in 1998 at the University of Iowa, with a goal of reducing the number and cost of injuries and illnesses...
Employee Management Conference is Nov. 6
The National Pork Board has scheduled an Employee Management Conference for Nov. 6 in Cary, NC, to address the challenges of managing human resources...
Tapping into the Hispanic Workforce
Understanding cultural diversity can give you a competitive advantage in today's swine industry. Hispanics make up about 15% of the United States population,...
Pork Center Awarded Educational Grants
The U.S. Department of Agriculture/Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service have awarded three-year grant to develop Swine Schools a $460,000, to the U.S. Pork Center of Excellence (USPCE)...
Protect Your Livelihood
Summer events offer perfect opportunity to bend an ear, twist an arm. By the time you read this, you'll have fond memories of 4th of July picnics, parades...
Biosecurity: Plugging the Holes
Creating biosecurity rules people won't follow wastes time and paper. Veterinarians are great at creating biosecurity protocols in great detail covering...
Top 10 Ways to Boost Biosecurity
There are 10 simple steps to bolstering biosecurity in a hog operation, according to Patrick Webb, DVM, National Pork Board director of swine health programs...
Empower Your Employees
As farms and organizations struggle to improve, the credit or blame for progress achieved is often leveled at the staff...
