Hog Industry News
Dermot Hayes, an ag economist at Iowa State University spoke with each of the six impacted managers about their contingency plans, some of which do have plans to add Saturday shifts and/or work longer mandatory shifts.
The company says it will also provide $200 to fully vaccinated frontline team members.
Who should be telling the story of agriculture? The Shark Farmer says it may not be who you first think.
Cases and deaths from COVID-19 among workers at the leading U.S. meatpacking plants were three times as high as previously estimated based on an investigation by the House Select Subcommittee.
Rena Striegel, a consultant with Transition Point Business Advisors, detailed five steps toward strengthening the core of a farm business, speaking at Top Producer Summit in Nashville, Tenn.
Although the industry has come a long way when it comes to farm safety, about every three days, a child dies in an ag-related incident, and each day, 33 children are injured. Farm safety expert Barbara Lee weighs in.
Purdue reported 23 fatalities related to grain bin entrapment in 2019. These stories haunted a city-dwelling film producer, Sam Goldberg, prompting him to share the dangers in putting food on the world’s table.
After 30 years working in the field of rural mental health, Ted Matthews understands the factors that stress farmers and knows how to help them.