Great biosecurity, scrutiny for water quality and high levels of hygiene all matter to reduce the risk of pathogens as much ...

Pig breeding companies Hypor and Danish Genetics merged early 2025 and will continue under the name Hendrix Genetics Swine.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to swine genetics company PIC for the gene edit ...

There should be proper research to the benefits of weaning piglets at 5 weeks of age. To that end, a comparative study ought to be organised to investigate the differences between weaning at 4 as well ...

Pig vets of the future will nothing be like the ones who brought the science to the levels it is today. At the 2025 general meeting of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, the Dr Alex Hogg ...

Studies show that replacing soybean meal with insect meal in poultry diets improves growth performance, feed efficiency and meat quality. Photo: Koos Groenewold Recent research work focuses on the ...

Owners and managers of commercial pig farms in the US generally tend to be well informed about foreign animal diseases – but how about small swine stakeholders? There is room for improvement, a recent ...

Global trade in agricultural products is suffering from the US trade measures and countermeasures from China, among others.

A swine farm with almost 10,000 pigs in Hungary has been emptied because it was too close to a cattle farm where Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) was detected last week. That particular outbreak occurred ...

Brazil’s pork exports have reached double‑digit growth, both in the month of March as well as in the entire first quarter of ...