Animal-rights organizations are asking for a response to rulemaking petitions, urging for reduction or elimination of the allowable levels of ractopamine.
Cameron Swallows, a Florida 4-Her helped save his sister’s pig with quick thinking and action using a 3D printed prolapse ring.
This is the first intentional genomic alteration in an animal that the FDA has approved for both food consumption and for potential therapeutic uses.
“Factory” farming is the new “f” word. But just because a pig farm can be big and utilizes technology doesn’t make it any less respectable.
The first seven days of starting pigs sets the stage for the next 23 weeks of grow/finish performance.
In just the past couple of weeks, African swing fever has affected more than a dozen pig operations in China and continues to expand.
The FDA is alerting veterinary medical professionals, as well as those who work with horses and pigs, that a synthetic progesterone product, altrenogest, may cause reproductive system disorders and other adverse effects in people who become exposed to the drug. The FDA is providing this alert because of the nature of the adverse events, some […]
Newsflash to anyone moving to the country: combines are noisy, pigs are smelly, tractors create dust, and cows are always mooing. Hog farmers in North Carolina are wishing their neighbors got the memo before settling down next door. Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, has been named in more than two dozen […]
Scientists have cracked the code in fighting one of the most devastating viruses in the pork industry and it’s all through gene-edited pigs. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have produced pigs that can resist Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, or PRRS, by changing their genetic code. Tests with the virus found the […]
A Minnesota pork producer will get the chance to share why gene editing is crucial to the industry during an ethics panel at CRISPRcon. Randy Spronk will represent the farm perspective at the event June 4-5, in Boston. Through speakers, panels, and interactive discussions, CRISPRcon offers a forum for gene editing stakeholders to share ideas, […]