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Pennsylvania pork producer Coleman Wagner shares how investing in people, strengthening state and national collaboration and building connections with consumers are helping create a stronger future for the pork industry.
Soft demand and seasonally higher pork supplies are pressuring fall hog prices. Explore pork market trends and the outlook for early 2027.
Nebraska pork producer and Swine Health Advisory Committee member Brock Pillen shares how investing in people, preparing the next generation and supporting producer-led action on PRRSV and PEDV are helping build a healthier future for the pork industry.
For pork producers, the goal is ambitious but straightforward: eliminate porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. The Wisconsin Pork Association’s PEDV Elimination Pilot Program is designed to test a coordinated, regional approach to that goal.
Hog slaughter is expected to run about 1.5% below year ago levels through fall/winter. Higher feed costs and poor margins are likely to encourage producers to market hogs more aggressively, thus keeping weights at or below year ago levels.
U.S. SHIP delegates approved a PEDV Monitored classification and advanced work on transportation sanitation, traceability, disease testing and other complex swine health issues. The decisions highlight how credible site-status information and coordinated industry action can help advance National Swine Health Strategy priorities.
Discover key takeaways from the September 2026 USDA Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report. Learn how record-setting on-farm productivity is helping offset the smallest September breeding herd since 2013 and fewest sows farrowing since 2002, but pig crops are smaller and market supply fundamentals supportive for pork producers.
Missouri pork producer and NPB board member Jesse Heimer shares how his farm, industry leadership and focus on building consumer demand are helping prepare pork producers, and the next generation, for what’s next.
When a new Hogs and Pigs report comes out, the inventory number gets the attention. The question that matters on the farm is what those numbers mean for the business in the months ahead.
Pork Checkoff research starts with the questions that matter to producers and brings the right people together to find answers. See how producer input, research proposals and industry coordination turn Checkoff dollars into research producers can put to work.
Producer-led advisory committees bring perspectives to guide checkoff programs across domestic marketing, human nutrition, innovation and pork quality, international marketing, swine health and We Care.
Hogs and pigs report expected to show no change in the breeding stock. If true, that would put the breeding stock still about 1% below year ago levels.
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