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  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal meat inspection law supersedes state law, overturning a California appeals court ruling that would permit the ban on sales of downer or fatigued hogs. Des Moines attorney Lance Lange says the Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling essentially affirms the earlier holding of the federal district court and reverses the ruling of a federal appeals court. The National Meat Association (NMA) brought a lawsuit in the federal district court in California challenging the state law. ...More

In a new study funded by the Pork Checkoff, researchers at Texas Tech and Iowa State universities found that the pork industry can generally use less bedding year-round than it currently does while improving overall animal well-being – a breakthrough finding that could save the industry an estimated $10.1 million per year...More

First-parity sows suffered more scratches and poorer farrowing performance compared to mature sows in group-housed gestation systems, according to research at the University of Minnesota...More

The American Meat Institute (AMI) Foundation and Alchemy Systems, a leader in innovative training solutions based in Austin, TX, are teaming up to develop an animal welfare training series for the beef and pork industries...More

Like a sibling rivalry, a pair of 6,000-sow units in west-central Nebraska have pushed production past 30 pigs/mated female/year...More

Animal Welfare Approved (AWA) has announced a call for proposals for its 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grants. The Good Husbandry Grants program has funded nearly 100 projects across the country to improve farm animal welfare...More

The handling of disabled or non-ambulatory animals and euthanasia are two emerging issues for the livestock industry that will be addressed at the 2nd Annual Animal Welfare Symposium, Nov. 30, 2010...More

Animal handling and welfare authority Temple Grandin, professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University, calls the recently opened hog holding facility at the Hormel Foods Corporation in Austin, MN, “as good as it gets”...More

Animal rights activists say the bills don’t go far enough to protect livestock. But Michigan farm officials counter the bills back accepted standards that have proven to be best practices for animal care...More

The University of Minnesota (UMN) Extension and the Minnesota Pork Board will co-sponsor a free online seminar from 1-2 p.m. March 25 on “Creating an Animal Welfare Program.”...More

A joint animal welfare survey conducted by the American Farm Bureau Federation and Oklahoma State University (OSU) produced three key lessons...More

Ohio State University animal science researchers are launching animal welfare training programs to foster human-animal interaction....More