11/02/2009 03:12PM
After years of work by a team of international researchers, the genetic code for domestic swine has been uncovered, which should lead to a host of new insights in agriculture, medicine, conservation and evolution.
07/23/2009 11:12AM
Tim Bierman, a farmer from Larrabee, Iowa, has been elected by his fellow board members as president of the National Pork Board. Dr. Gene Nemechek, a veterinarian with Tyson Foods in Springdale, Ark., has been elected vice president. Both begin immediately to serve one-year terms.
Bierman, who
07/20/2009 07:49AM
The National Pork Board will work on current and future budgets and elect officers when it meets July 21. The board is meeting in conjunction with the annual National Pork Industry Conference at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.
Market hog prices that have been lower than projected when the board
06/03/2009 02:03PM
The floods of 2008 are fresh in Iowa pork producers' memories less than a year after rising waters from the Mississippi and its tributaries flooded thousands of acres of crops and dozens of pig barns following heavy spring rains. Helping pork producers prepare for this and many other
06/03/2009 02:01PM
The National Pork Board has adopted a resolution urging all U.S. pork producers to become certified in the Pork Quality Assurance Plus® program by June 30, 2010, and to achieve PQA Plus® site status by Dec. 31, 2010. Additionally, the board is recommending that producers embrace the ethical principles
06/03/2009 09:56AM
The Pork Checkoff is helping U.S. pork producers as they work to earn the trust of their customers by demonstrating accountability and social responsibility in all they do.
"We know that many producers are struggling right now with a profitability challenge on top of the hit the markets took during
05/28/2009 03:47PM
The Pork Checkoff, National Hog Farmer magazine, the National Pork Producers Council, NutriDense, Newsham Choice Genetics, Pfizer Animal Health and Farm Credit Services of America have partnered to sponsor the Swine Handling and Transport Forum on the eve of the 2009 World Pork Expo, at the Des Moines
05/26/2009 03:00PM
The Pork Checkoff is sponsoring Producers Opportunity for Revenue and Knowledge (PORK) Academy Wednesday, June 3 thru Friday, June 5 during World Pork Expo at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa.
"We invite all pork producers attending World Pork Expo to join us for the PORK Academy
03/27/2009 08:30AM
Reaffirming their commitment to the U.S. pork industry and its customers, Pork Act delegates at the recent National Pork Industry Forum passed two resolutions dealing with Pork Quality Assurance Plus® (PQA Plus®) participation.
The first resolution titled PQA Plus participation stated