AgVantage, a plastics manufacturer located in Rockford, Ill., is creating an RFID-enabled hog feeder designed to help farmers more efficiently care for pigs. The feeder, composed of a biocomposite ...

"Factory farms." If there is one term I am most frustrated with hearing people say, it is that. Why? You may find this a little crazy coming from a hog farmer, but I really don't know what they are.

CHICAGO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday said it would temporarily suspend calculation and distribution of the exchange's lean hog and feeder cattle indexes due to a ...

Richard Larock, a University Professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, is developing plastics made from corn and soybean oils that will be used to build hog feeders. The feeders could be on the ...

Cattle started mixed Monday but quickly moved higher in both live and feeder cattle futures. Hogs are lower, grains are mostly lower early. Live Cattle Bounce After Lower Weekly Close Brad Kooima of ...

The Buffalo River Watershed Alliance has scheduled a seven-city speaking tour Oct. 25-31 to inform the public about threats to the Buffalo River from a factory hog-feeding operation on a tributary of ...

In my second quarter animal protein report on Barchart, I concluded: I expect a continuation of elevated beef and pork prices. Significant corrections over the coming months could be buying ...

Texas deer hunters can save money, increase the number of deer they see from their blinds, help those deer get extra nutrition and, perhaps most important, strike a blow against the booming feral hog ...