This Month's Focus: World Pork Expo Product TourWorld Pork Expo 2008 New Product TourBy Lora Berg The 2008 New Product Tour panel members included: Joel DeRouchey, a Kansas State University Extension environmental management and swine nutrition specialist.... |
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8 Tips for Tough TimesBy Dale Miller, Editor Steve Meyer, founder of Paragon Economics, Inc., Des Moines, IA, led off acknowledging that the challenges facing pork producers are different than they've... |
Comparing Circovirus Vaccine EfficacyBy Joe Vansickle Senior Editor Most hog operations with porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) also have a multitude of co-infections, namely porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome... |
News Flash
Veterinary Group Raises Issues Over California Ballot Initiative
In November, California voters will decide whether to enact Proposition 2, a ballot initiative backed by animal rights activists. The stated objective is to require that egg-laying hens, veal calves and gestating sows have adequate room to...
Pork-Soybean Groups Unite For Research Collaboration
The rise in soybean meal prices and other protein products has driven livestock and poultry producers to work toward maximizing the nutrient value of those sources...
Near-Record Harvests Predicted
Despite severe flooding throughout much of the Corn Belt in June, crops have rebounded with yields expected to produce the second-largest corn crop and the fourth-largest soybean crop in history...
EPA Nixes Waiver Of Ethanol Mandate
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) was “deeply disappointed” by Thursday’s decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to turn down a waiver of the federal ethanol production mandate for Texas...
