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2 months ago | 
porkbusiness.com | Jim Wiesemeyer |Tyne Morgan |Jennifer Shike |Steve Cubbage
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday (Jan. 29) before the Senate Finance Committee lasted over three hours, revealing key points:Vaccine stance: Kennedy attempted to soften his past anti-vaccine rhetoric, stating support for vaccines but struggling to explain previous controversial statements.
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2 months ago | 
porkbusiness.com | Jennifer Shike |Jim Wiesemeyer |Steve Cubbage |Rhonda Brooks
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird led 23 states in a brief supporting Iowa pork producers against California’s strict-hog-housing regulations — Proposition 12, the Office of the Attorney General reported in an article on Jan. 29. As the nation’s top pork-consuming state, California has major influence over the whole market.
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2 months ago | 
porkbusiness.com | Jennifer Shike |Jim Wiesemeyer |Steve Cubbage |Rhonda Brooks
In a competitive industry like the U.S. pork business, it’s important to reflect and learn from your experiences. The experts featured each quarter in the State of the Pork Industry Report share four ways they grew from experiences they went through in 2024. 1. We’re in the people business. One thing that Adam Annegers, sow production manager at JBS, is taking with him from lessons learned in 2024 is how to relate to people in the barn. “We all have protocol books. Every company has them.
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2 months ago | 
dairyherd.com | Taylor Leach |Rhonda Brooks |Steve Cubbage |Shay Foulk
Milk production in the 24 major states continued its downward trend in December, totaling 18.0 billion lbs., a 0.4% decline from the previous year. This marks a continuation of the slight contraction seen in November, where revised production figures showed a 0.3% year-over-year decrease. Slight Contraction ContinuesDespite these declines, the overall number of milk cows in the 24 major states increased by 17,000 head compared to December 2023 yet decreased by 8,000 head from November 2024.
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2 months ago | 
bovinevetonline.com | Says Vilsack |Mark Johnson |Steve Cubbage |Rhonda Brooks
Calving during the winter months can present some unique challenges. Cold and/or wet weather, higher birth weights, fewer hours of daylight and in most herds this is the time of year when we, as producers, are the primary source of nutrition provided in the form of harvested forage and supplemental feeds. What can we do to make calving in the late winter months as problem-free as possible?
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2 months ago | 
dairyherd.com | Rhonda Brooks |Steve Cubbage |Shay Foulk |Karen Bohnert
Eggs continue to be a hot topic in the news as supplies are down, prices are up – and expected to go even higher – and consumers are understandably concerned. At the center of the issue, fanning the on-going problem for poultry and dairy producers as well, is the Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1). AgriTalk Host Chip Flory broached the topic with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig on Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
porkbusiness.com | Rhonda Brooks |Steve Cubbage |Maggie Malson |Jennifer Shike
Eggs continue to be a hot topic in the news as supplies are down, prices are up – and expected to go even higher – and consumers are understandably concerned. At the center of the issue, fanning the on-going problem for poultry and dairy producers as well, is the Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza A virus (HPAI H5N1). AgriTalk Host Chip Flory broached the topic with Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig on Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
dairyherd.com | Steve Cubbage |Shay Foulk |Karen Bohnert |Maureen Hanson
Global Milk Production CostsA new report says milk producers around the world are seeing an increase in production costs. The report comes from Rabo Research. It says dairy farmers across eight regions including Argentina, Australia, California, China and the Netherlands, have seen total production costs surge by 14% from 2019 to last year. with over 70% of the increases happening since 2021.
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2 months ago | 
porkbusiness.com | Maggie Malson |Steve Cubbage |Rhonda Brooks |Jennifer Shike
“The U.S. meat and poultry industry is the economic engine powering the agriculture sector,” says Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts, in a letter addressed to President Trump. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, meat and poultry processing is a $227.9 billion industry. Meat and poultry packers and processors employ more than 532,000 workers, with beef packers paying average hourly wages of $22.
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2 months ago | 
dairyherd.com | Steve Cubbage |Shay Foulk |Karen Bohnert |Jim Wiesemeyer
Class III milk futures continued their strong momentum today, with blocks and barrels both posting gains with no offers appearing during the cheese session. This back-to-back strength bodes well for producers, as Q1 futures currently sit at $20.27 per hundredweight, with January contracts set to expire next week. Butter turned out to be the biggest mover and Q1 Class IV futures saw a slight decline, settling at $20.46.
