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“If handled improperly, transition events can be the death of your business. Or it can strengthen your business and clearly outline who you are and where you want to go,” says Dick Wittman.
Say “I love you” with this tasty treat.
How are you showing up on the farm? Do your actions meet up with your goals? Rena Striegel, a farm succession planning consultant, encourages the next generation of on-farm leaders to do some self-reflection.
Formulating your farm’s succession plan is likely not a straight line. Polly Dobbs, an Indiana attorney who is part of a seven-generation farm family, says it’s important to stay focused on your end goals.
We asked previous awardees of the Top Producer Next Gen Award to reflect on lessons they’ve experienced in business and management.
New research from National Pork Board shows there are more air fryers in homes across America than there are coffee makers, which means younger generations cook meals with appliances baby boomers may not even own.
EU’s pork production hit the lowest level in nearly 25 years. So, what’s causing pork production to take such a drastic drop? One reason is EU environmental regulations that have forced producers to cut back production.
Farmers who are feeling bewildered by the glacial progress of the next farm bill should know they’re not alone. “There are a lot of people who are confused about the process, including me,” says AgriTalk host Chip Flory.
On the second episode of Unscripted, a new podcast hosted by AgDay’s Clinton Griffiths and U.S. Farm Report’s Tyne Morgan, Chris Bennett provides a behind-the-scenes look at how he finds such amazing stories.
“The current lifetime estate and gift tax exemption is $13.61 million and will be cut in half beginning in 2026.”
Richard Slayman, the Massachusetts man who was the recipient of the world’s first successful transplant of a genetically-edited pig kidney, has died less than two months after the procedure.
EPA’s new model is designed to address previously identified shortfalls in the R&D GREET model and how it calculated lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. The new approach accounts for all emissions from farm to fuel.
A pair of ballot measures representing the extreme ideologies of animal rights activists have made it onto November’s ballot in Denver.
“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we’re taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth.
A New Jersey woman fighting for her life received an incredible gift from a pig last month at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Cattle futures struggled in yesterday’s trade amidst more headlines concerning the bird flu. Are lean hogs running out of gas against the old highs?
Lean hogs took out technical resistance which may have put an added tailwind in prices, are new highs in the cards or is this market overextended?
The pork community is in the crosshairs right now for the animal rights extremist community. Here’s what you need to know.
Mental health support services are hard to find in rural areas. Did you know 90 million people live in designated Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas? To further complicate matters, stress among farmers is growing.
Cattle futures had a strong start to the week following Friday’s Cattle on Feed report. Monday’s trade took prices back to significant resistance levels, will they hold?
It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are trending up.
Unrelenting inflation continues to weigh down the U.S. economy and agriculture. Still, CoBank says it believes the Fed will stick with its decision to cut interest rates three times in 2024.
Cattle futures were under pressure in the first half of the week but were able to stabilize yesterday. Is more relief in play or was yesterday just a dead cat bounce?
Kay Russo, DVM, Novonesis technical services manager for dairy and poultry, emphasized the situation is rapidly evolving and more clarity will come with time as researchers learn more.
Kyle Scheele shares six ways constraints can be a good thing to your operation.
Mike Steenhoek, executive director at the Soy Transportation Coalition, shares what the collapse could mean for the supply chain.
Understanding the causes of injuries in ag occupations can help improve safety and policy measures. However, obtaining a comprehensive overview of injuries is hindered by the absence of a central reporting system.
While HPAI has been detected in predatory mammals that prey on infected birds, this is the first identified case of HPAI in domestic livestock in the U.S.
U.S. pork exports to Mexico hit the second-highest on record in January, while another major meat processor says it’s shutting the doors on another pork processing plant as consolidation concerns continue to grow.
Steve Cubbage provides insights on the five areas expected to have the biggest impact on agriculture this year.