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Discussions from Ralph’s
The warm weather has arrived and the high market hog prices have brightened attitudes. Warm weather brings its share of storms and tornadoes as well as the rebirth of Mother Nature. A trucker who stops in regularly says he can best tell the change of seasons by the type of road kill. According to Darnell, deer and raccoons are multi-season species, but skunks and muskrats are definite signs of warmer weather.
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A glance at the next few months
April and May have provided a much needed respite for U.S. pork producers in the form of the largest spring hog price rally on record! So what ...
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Pressure is building in Washington to restrict many of the antibiotics U.S. pork producers use on their farms.
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At Current in Pork, we like discussions from all areas of the industry. This month, we interviewed Dr. Keith Aljets, a veterinarian from Iowa, to get his perspective on the pork industry.
1. What ...
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The six-month outlook for U.S. pig producers is as good as it has been since 2006. After 28 months of losses that averaged, according to estimates from Iowa State University, nearly ...
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Recently, a Midwest farmer, Russell Jeckel, was asked by his two youngest grandchildren what life was like when he was growing up. So, he wrote them a letter detailing his history with ...
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The pork industry in the past fifty years has had its share of changes and the effect is simply astonishing. From hog nose rings to gate rods, from medicating groups of pigs in stock ...
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