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ACRE viable option if direct payments chopped
Written on 11 Jul, 2011 at 7:06 in Featured Swine News | Comments
Eliminating direct payments likely would have a more major impact on federal budget outlays, farm income, and land values than specific commodity markets and food prices, a new University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) report concludes.... (Continue reading)
Lawmakers, Livestock and Poultry Producers Express Frustrations About GIPSA Rule in Hearing About Its Potential Impact on Small Businesses; Chairman Calls For Revised RFA
Written on 11 Jul, 2011 at 6:30 in Featured Swine News | Comments
Lawmakers and livestock and poultry producers continued to express their frustration and concern over the livestock marketing rule proposed by USDA’s Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) in a hearing held yesterday by the House Small Business Committee Subcommittee... (Continue reading)
USDA Awards Grants to Help Agriculture Producers Adapt to Global Climate Change Effects
Written on 5 Jul, 2011 at 7:10 in Indiana Swine News | Comments
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded 13 grants to research possibilities for agriculture and forestry producers to adapt to climate change and to best take advantage of variable climate patterns. These... (Continue reading)
Up Front: A Matter of Fairness-Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Executive Vice President John C. (Jack) Fisher.
Written on 15 Jun, 2011 at 6:49 in Ohio Swine Commentaries | Comments
Ohio Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Jack Fisher The following opinion column comes from Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Executive Vice President John C. (Jack) Fisher. It will appear in his regularly featured “Up Front” column in the July-August issue of... (Continue reading)
Quality Considerations in On-Farm Feed Processing
Written on 8 Mar, 2011 at 7:53 in Illinois Swine Technical Articles | Comments
On-farm feed processing can be an economical practice to capture more value from home-grown or purchased grains. For operations that are continually growing and/or changing, owners/managers may need to occasionally evaluate whether feed processing and mixing procedures are adequately meeting... (Continue reading)
Composting Swine Mortality Principles and Operation
Written on 22 Dec, 2010 at 10:38 in Ohio Swine Technical Articles | Comments
Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering 590 Woody Hayes Dr., Columbus, Ohio 43210 Composting Swine Mortality Principles and Operation AEX-711-97 Harold Keener David Elwell Terry Mescher Animal agriculture is faced today with discovering innovative ways... (Continue reading)
Duration of Infection and Proportion of Pigs Persistently Infected with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus†
Written on 27 Oct, 2010 at 6:50 in Nebraska Swine Technical Articles | Comments
Robert W. Wills,* Alan R. Doster, Judith A. Galeota, Jung-Hyang Sur,‡ and Fernando A. Osorio Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0907 *Corresponding author. Present address: P.O. Box 6100, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Phone: (662)... (Continue reading)
Iowa State University Reports
Written on 22 Apr, 2010 at 12:10 in Iowa Swine Technical Articles | Comments
Publications 2010 Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2010 Iowa State University Swine Research/ Extension faculty (pdf) Managing for Herd Health in Alternative Swine Systems, a herd health guidebook funded through USDA NCR-SARE, the Value Chain Partnerships Project, and Pork... (Continue reading)
The REFLECT statement: Methods and processes of creating reporting guidelines for randomized controlled trials for livestock and food safety – Feb 4 2010
Written on 26 Feb, 2010 at 7:20 in Iowa Swine Commentaries | Comments
A. M. O’Connor, BVSc, MVSc, DVSc, FACVSc; J. M. Sargeant, DVM, MSc, PhD; I. A. Gardner, BVSc, MPVM, PhD; J. S. Dickson, MS, PhD; M. E. Torrence, DVM, PhD; and consensus meeting participants: C. E. Dewey, DVM, MSc, PhD; I.... (Continue reading)
Pork Commentary By Malcolm DeKryger Vice President of Belstra Milling/Belstra Group February 2010 Report- February 2010
Written on 25 Feb, 2010 at 12:14 in Indiana Swine Commentaries | Comments
Last month, Reuters reported that the Obama administration gave the United Nations formal notification that the United States will embrace the Copenhagen Accord, which sets nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The target is a 17 percent reduction in... (Continue reading)
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