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National Pork Producers Council: EPA Releases Confidential Farm Data
Written on 21 Feb, 2013 at 12:53 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Featured Indiana Swine News, Featured Iowa Swine News, Featured Minnesota Swine News, Featured Nebraska Swine News, Featured Ohio Swine News, Featured Swine News, Illinois Pork Producers, Ohio Pork Producers | Comments
Source: National Pork Producers Council news release The National Pork Producers Council is extremely troubled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s release earlier this month to several activist groups of personal information on U.S. hog farmers and on other livestock... (Continue reading)
Young Leaders Efforts Help To Fight Hunger
Written on 18 Feb, 2013 at 8:19 in Featured Illinois Swine News | Comments
Sixteen Illinois Farm Bureau Young Leaders recently returned from the Young Farmers & Ranchers Conference, where they were recognized for their continuing fight to end hunger. The national event, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is hosted by the American Farm Bureau... (Continue reading)
Zoetis (Formerly Pfizer Animal Health) Closes Its Initial Public Offering
Written on 11 Feb, 2013 at 7:08 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Featured Nebraska Swine News, Featured Swine News, Minnesota Swine News, Swine News | Comments
ZoetisTM (NYSE: ZTS), formerly the animal health business unit of Pfizer Inc., today announced the closing of its previously announced initial public offering. The offering of 99,015,000 shares of its Class A common stock included 12,915,000 shares of Class A... (Continue reading)
Merck Announces Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter 2012 Financial Results
To view complete report, click here. Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2012. “Merck overcame significant challenges last year and delivered strong... (Continue reading)
Meet the Faces of Farming and Ranching
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) announced that Chris Chinn (Mo.), Will Gilmer (Ala.), Katie Pratt (Ill.), and Bo Stone (N.C.), have been selected as the winners of its Faces of Farming & Ranching program, a nationwide search launched... (Continue reading)
Smithfield moving toward complete sow group housing
Written on 4 Jan, 2013 at 7:02 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Featured Swine News, Swine News | Comments
Smithfield Foods announced that at the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38 percent of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems. The company reported that it remains... (Continue reading)
Carbohydrate composition and in vitro digestibility of DM and NSP in grains and grain coproducts
Neil Jaworksi, Master’s student in the Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory, presents some of his thesis research on carbohydrate composition of grains and grain coproducts, and how carbohydrate composition affects the energy value of these ingredients. Downloadable video: PCCarbohydratesInGrains.mp4 Transcript: Slide... (Continue reading)
Ten Reasons to use EPI Air in your Barn
Written on 3 Dec, 2012 at 6:59 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Featured Indiana Swine News, Featured Minnesota Swine News, Featured Swine News, Iowa Swine News, Swine News | Comments
If you are a swine or poultry producer who wants to improve your production rates, it is time to learn about Electrostatic Particle Ionization (EPI) by Baumgartner Environics. EPI is a patented air-cleaning system, specially designed for reducing dust particles from... (Continue reading)
AMI Concerned about USDA Listeria Guidelines
Written on 26 Nov, 2012 at 6:44 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Featured Swine News, Swine News | Comments
In comments to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) about a newly released compliance guideline for Listeria monocytogenes control in post-lethality ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, AMI urged the agency to clarify the purpose of the document and... (Continue reading)
Alternative Grains and Their Effects on Return Over Costs
Written on 16 Nov, 2012 at 11:07 in Featured Illinois Swine News, Feed, Iowa Swine Technical Articles, Minnesota Swine Technical Articles | Comments
Reduced corn and soybean yields and potentially tight supplies cause many pork producers to look for alternative ingredients. Canola meal has received quite a bit of attention recently. Canola meal has an amino acid profile similar to soybean meal (SBM),... (Continue reading)
Illinois agriculture groups donate pork for needy
Written on 12 Nov, 2012 at 8:23 in Featured Illinois Swine News | Comments
Three agriculture commodity groups once again joined forces to fight hunger in Illinois. The Illinois Pork Producers, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board and Illinois Soybean Association presented the Central Illinois Foodbank with 5,360 pounds of ground pork on Oct. 24... (Continue reading)
Illinois Farmers Donate Food To Needy
Written on 29 Oct, 2012 at 6:54 in Featured Illinois Swine News | Comments
The Central Illinois Food Bank got a 53-hundred pound pork donation this week.The 53-hundred pound donation is just part of what the Illinois Pork Producers is donating to eight regional food banks across the state. In all, they’re giving 38-thousand... (Continue reading)
No change to swine show or exhibits at Illinois State Fair
Written on 13 Aug, 2012 at 7:04 in Featured Illinois Swine News | Comments
Illinois State Fair officials are taking some extra precautions after a new variant of influenza sent several pigs home from the Indiana State Fair, but shows and exhibits will continue as usual when the fair opens in Springfield on Friday.... (Continue reading)
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