At the National Pork Producers Council's Legislative Action Conference farmers from across the country visited about 175 congressional offices to ask for a national answer to California's housing law in the farm bill, funding for the swine health improvement plan, a year-round farm workforce and ope
LivestockNearly 150 pork producers visited about 175 congressional offices as the Senate Agriculture Committee passed its farm bill, pressing for a solution to California's Proposition 12, swine health funding, year-round farm labour and USMCA renewal.
LivestockWalt and Shelli Traudt of Clay Center added contract hog finishing to their corn and soybean farm in 2012; the manure now covers 550 acres, feeds two crops from one application and has lifted yields on dryland pivot corners.
LivestockAt the 2026 Nebraska Pork Conference the National Pork Board's chief veterinarian said newer PRRS strains are more pathogenic and harder to eliminate, proposed wiping out PED within ten years as a first step, and a Nebraska start-up described environmental sampling that gives a four-day warning.
