The 19th annual event will be held June 7-9 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and will feature more than 1,000 swine industry exhibits, numerous educational seminars, several informational centers, a farm toy show and sale, breed shows and sales, lunch at the Big Grill on Thursday and Friday, World Pork Open Golf Tournament and World Pork Open Sporting Clay Tournament. The 19th annual event will be held June 7-9 at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and will feature more than 1,000 swine industry...

Those lawmakers and the Iowa-based company that makes Blue Bunny ice cream are at the center of a dispute over whether corporate dairy processors should be allowed to buy milk under contracts that would pay farmers less than the minimum prices set by the federal milk marketing system. Those lawmakers and the Iowa-based company that makes Blue Bunny ice cream are at the center of a dispute over whether corporate dairy processors should be allowed to buy milk under contracts that would pay...

They have another name, a more truthful name - factory farms, although they have nothing to do with farming and lots to do with manufacturing. They've reduced animal husbandry to an industrial process, right down to knowing exactly how long an animal gets to live (used to be, chickens had exactly 60 days of life, according to an old boss who worked in the business perhaps, through the marvels of efficiency, they've even managed to knock that down a few days since) During the course of the...

food products including a shipment of Spam _ and said it was negotiating deals that could bring the total to nearly US$150 million. food and agricultural products can be sold directly to Cuba under a law passed by the U. HAVANA (AP) Cuba agreed Wednesday to buy US$118 million in pork, soybeans, tomatoes and other U. Poultry and Egg Export Council, one of more than 200 Americans from 25 states who visited Havana for talks with communist officials. A smiling Pedro Alvarez, chairman of the...

Marketing underweight or overweight hogs could result in market price deductions, and the under- or overfeeding of hogs can hurt the profit bottom line. The weight distribution collected one day is used the next day to find the median weight of the hogs, and they are separated into two pens according to that number. Based on the weights collected with use of the electronic ear tag, the complex system, allows producers to segregate the hogs by size so the smaller hogs don t have to compete...