Trump’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued proposed rules to gut slaughterhouse line speed regulations at poultry and pork processing facilities. If finalized, the poultry rule would allow ...

According to the USDA Economic Research Service Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for February 2026, prices of live equivalent national daily direct producer-sold hogs averaged $61.49 per cwt, a 1 ...

USDA’s second Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report of 2025, released on June 26, contains key metrics for the hog industry including inventory, the number of pigs saved from every litter and the number of ...

The nation’s swine inventory has been holding steady the past year and showed an increase of 1% during the second quarter as the herd has a count of 75.1 million pigs. That was the finding from the ...

Meeting with people outside the federal government usually means hearing about somebody’s else’s agenda, but USDA’s top food safety officials apparently think it can be a two-way ...

After this week, the kill and cutting floors at the Sioux City John Morrell plant will grow silent, 'Production to end early at Morrell plant' The final hog slaughter shifts are scheduled for Thursday ...