Accept what is put on your plate. Fight for your existence and stop apologizing for advocating for yourself.

Other improvements include increasing the endorsement lengths for swine up to 52 weeks and creating new swine types to allow for unborn livestock to be insured.

The pork industry simply cannot afford to repeat the depopulation and growth reduction of finishing pigs in the future.

Encourage pork producers to embrace the potential addition of a cutout settled contract and use it to your benefit.

Be comfortable with locking in a good price.

What should the industry look like going forward? That's the question every producer has to ask themselves, along with understanding the opportunities we have today.

Within those 57 counties, there are approximately 14 million acres of insured crops.

Hosted by Iowa Pork Industry Center and Iowa Pork Producers Association, webinars will be offered on four consecutive Wednesdays from Aug. 19 through Sept. 9.

Producers who experience above normal livestock deaths due to specific weather events may qualify for assistance under the Livestock Indemnity Program.

Over the last 15 years, only once have more than 100,000 hogs fallen under LRP coverage due to program limitations.