PQA Plus advisor training set for Nov. 19
The recertification session is limited to the first 30 participants who preregister and pay the recertification fee of $50 per person.
View ArticlePfizer outlines veterinary scholarship program
For the fourth consecutive year, Pfizer Animal Health and the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF) invite second- and third-year students of veterinary medicine to apply for the Pfizer Animal...
View ArticleAnimal agriculture demand No. 1 for U.S. soy
This year’s drought affected most of the United States and also impacted many domestic poultry and livestock farmers. Higher prices for soybeans leave animal ag partners to pay more at the feed mill.
View ArticleBaker named IPIC interim director
Rodney “Butch” Baker, DVM, senior clinician at the Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine department, Iowa State University, will use his experience and expertise in swine veterinary...
View ArticleLivestock and poultry producers say RFS is ‘broken’
A coalition of livestock, poultry and dairy organizations on Friday expressed extreme disappointment in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) denial of a request to waive a federal law that...
View ArticleMinnesota pork producers' meeting set for Dec. 4
The 2012 annual meetings for the Minnesota Pork Producers Association (MPPA) and Minnesota Pork Board (MPB) will be Dec. 4 at the Country Inn & Suites, Mankato.
View ArticlePassionate about perfection
Judy Hinck's passion for animals began at an early age. She would take her homework into the farrowing barn as she monitored sows at her family's farrow-to-finish operation in Iowa. She showed animals...
View ArticleVote now for USFRA farming and ranching winners
The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) has identified nine finalists in its ‘Faces of Farming & Ranching’ program. Consumers and other farmers and ranchers around the country are asked to...
View ArticleNPB to meet with Texas pork producers
The National Pork Board (NPB) will travel next week to Texas, where more than one of every three residents is of Hispanic descent, to explore opportunities to market more pork to the growing Hispanic...
View ArticleOperation Main Street celebrates eight years
Pork’s positive messages are reaching far beyond meeting rooms and classrooms. Operation Main Street (OMS) presentations have generated more than 800 news stories with a reach of almost 29 million people.
View ArticleSirangelo to lead National 4-H Council
Jennifer Sirangelo is named executive vice president and chief operating officer of the National 4-H Council; Donald T Floyd, Jr. is retiring after 22 years with the organization.
View ArticleNational 4-H Council welcomes Mitch Head
Mitch Head As Chief Information Officer, Mitch Head will lead domestic and global technology strategies.
View ArticleSummit will address: "Who is Big Ag?"
The Animal Agriculture Alliance will feature a panel discussion at its upcoming Stakeholders Summit May 8-9 in Crystal City, VA.
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