🇪🇺🇺🇦 After some Central European countries took unilateral steps to ban food products from Ukraine, the EU has proposed a deal to help the latter's exports of wheat, maize, rapeseed, and sunflower seeds and oil: while those countries would need to ensure Ukrainian grain can transit through their territories, the EU would pay funds to their farmers as compensation.
• To check out the previous events that have led us to this point, click here or read this.
🤞 Negotiations are ongoing and eve...
📉 Corn future prices traded mostly flat or weakened earlier this week – price gains were largely held at bay by the rapid planting progress across the Heartland during last week as well as by prospects of a large Brazilian corn crop.
• Predictions for next year's crops are that Ukraine’s shipments will likely fall by nearly a quarter, but the Brazilian harvests will probably cover this year’s Ukrainian export market losses.
• However, going further in the future, any crop shortfalls...
⭐ Not a secret one, though! On March 12-15, more than 900 hundred students, researchers, and industry professionals joined together in Madison, WI, for the annual ASAS Midwest meetings, which featured presentations and discussions related to nutrition, health, genetics, and management. The ultimate goal? To keep driving the animal industry forward!
🔬Of course, the feed additive sector was highly represented, especially considering its key role in the industry and the environment. Here’s what AB...
🇺🇲🦠 One on the virus, and the other on the countermeasures! The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) is emphasizing the importance of biosecurity and biocontainment to help fight the spread of the PRRS Lineage 1C variant, continuously detected in some eastern and midwestern US states.
• A potential risk factor for this pattern of dissemination could be associated with different industry channels such as cull sow markets as well as animal transportation coming back from packing plants – ...
🧑🌾🚜 What matters the most? Though that might depend on whom you ask, the fact is that when it comes to US agriculture, the scale's been tipping towards the latter over the past century. The current downward trend in the number of US farms reflects the growing productivity of agriculture, its increased mechanization, and the boom in nonfarm employment opportunities.
• In 1935, the number of farms and ranches in the country reached its peak, but it's been falling ever since – up until the 7...
From developing a recruiting pipeline for vets and other related positions to answering specific questions within various departments as well as exposing students to the exciting world of the pig industry, Dr. Claire LeFevre gives us in this episode an insider's view into valuable internship programs. In our conversation, we discuss recruitment, routine, and other aspects of such internship programs for students who are interested in the pig industry.
Meet the guest:
Dr. Claire LeFre...
🇷🇺💉 The Russian veterinary body Rosselhoznadzor is urging national farmers to cut off the use of imported veterinary pig vaccines and drugs. The organization's made a point of highlighting that there's no official ban, but claims the request is because Western pharmaceutical companies have (supposedly) suspended deliveries in a move to deliberately cause a shortage of supplies and sabotage the requirements of Russian legislation.
• On one hand, estimates are that the Russian swine industry...