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...

Thu, 2011-12-15 13:01 As members of the food supply chain, all of us in agriculture play a role in making safe, affordable and abundant food a global reality. This video was shot at a Gleaner’s Food Bank in Indianapolis as part of an effort to raise awareness of the urgent need to support solutions...

Start by focusing on two key components of breeding herd health in the fall/winter: temperature management and disease intervention...

Fri, 2011-12-09 16:00   Without question, this is a critical time for maximizing FE. Pork prices are projected to hit all-time highs in 2011. Some estimates have live hog prices exceeding $75 per live hundredweight, or nearly $100 on a lean basis.1 That’s great news for producers. The downside is...

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...

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...