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National Pork Board Offers $46K for Top Innovators in Challenge

With foreign animal disease such as African swine fever closer than ever to the United States, the National Pork Board has launched its first-ever innovation challenge that deals with the potential need of mass carcass disposal. The challenge is seeking new and innovative methods of pig mortality disposal that go beyond the existing methods of burial, incineration, composting and landfills and provide pig farmers with more options.

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Leman: Trade, tariffs and global competition on the future of US pork production

Video: Leman: Trade, tariffs and global competition on the future of US pork production

Bill Moore, Chief Risk Officer at Compeer Financial, was recently interviewed by The Pig Site's Sarah Mikesell in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, at the Leman Swine Conference. He discusses how the changing economic landscape, including tariffs and trade, is affecting the US pork industry and agriculture.