Pork

The global food company JBS USA has recently announced it will be buying “certain assets” of an Iowa-based pork producer.

The world’s largest fast-food chain is taking a stance against the pork industry with a lawsuit filed just after Thanksgiving.

Trish and her husband Aaron own and operate CBL Farms in Winthrop Iowa

From 1982 to 2017, the number of hog farms in Iowa fell 86 percent—but that doesn’t mean the number of hogs in Iowa went down with it.

So, what were people talking about on a political level? According to Jayson Lusk, it’s important to remember to match those conversations with what’s actually going on in the industry

Prop 12 has been a big topic in the pork industry for a while now and with the new year, producers were preparing to see some big changes. Steve Meyer an Economist with Partners for Production Agriculture spoke to pork producers at the Iowa Pork Congress about the latest update on the law.

Kevin Rasmussen is the new president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Rasmussen is a pig farmer, finishing 8,000 head of hog a year in Humboldt County.

Voting delegates representing all of Iowa’s 99 county pork organizations are meeting Today in Des Moines to discuss and vote on policies affecting the industry.

A wastewater spill from a Tyson Foods pork factory hit storm sewers in Storm City last week.

Iowa pork producers can now export only some pork products to Nigeria.