Dennis Treacy, Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Smithfield Foods, talks about the company's stances on sow housing and antibiotic use.
Some farmers have been pinching themselves because of the high commodity prices they’ve experienced this year. Are those prices a one-time thing or part of a long-term trend? USDA’s Michael Dwyer says the current prosperity could be here to stay unless it gets derailed by a recession in Europe
It is the height of irony that Wuebker Farms, LLC, is located in Darke County, Ohio. Everything on this operation, run by brothers Jeff and Alan Wuebker, reflects a certain brilliance—literally and figuratively
Just because you may have seen one North Carolina hog operation does not mean you have seen them all. John Langdon emphasizes that point as he asks a visitor to hang on while he drives a utility vehicle up a steep path through a cattle pasture near his family’s seven, curtain-sided finishing buildings
Golden Circle Pork is more than just the name of Rod and Missy Bice’s family operation. It is also the philosophy that serves as the cornerstone for the way this farm does business, and is the foundation upon which the family is building for the future
Pigs play a key role in a sustainable approach on this picturesque Pennsylvania farm. Since the earliest history of the United States, Columbia County in northeast Pennsylvania has depended on coal mining to drive its economy
Since many of the farmers don't have access to traditional medicines, many cultivate ethnovet gardens. Here's Dr. Lisa Tokach giving us a tour of an ethnovet garden at one of the pig projects in Cameroon.