The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services is once again hosting the “I Protect Pigs” ...

Haiti's Greatest Loss, a WLRN original production, reveals the devastating impact of the pig's eradication in 1978, sparked by an African swine flu outbreak, and how it ravaged Haiti's economy, ...

To transform agriculture in the region, ADB builds partnerships across developing Asia, including the private sector, to tackle difficult challenges such as climate change, nutrition insecurity, and ...

Kathleen Merrigan has received several grants from USDA. Previously she was employed by the agency as Deputy Secretary (2009-2013) and Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator (1999-2001 ...

President Trump’s USDA Undersecretary nominees. Top left: Luke Lindberg as USDA Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs (TFAA); Top right: Richard Fordyce as Undersecretary for Farm ...

A new University of Missouri Extension study focuses on the effects of using pig manure as a crop fertilizer. The study looks at corn yields and soil health indicators under three separate ...

Hoskins, who joined the Senate Agriculture Committee staff in 2021 after leaving USDA, would oversee the Agricultural Marketing Service and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. While at ...

About half of workers at pork processing plants, like the JBS slaughterhouse in Worthington, Minn., are at high risk of developing musculoskeletal diseases. (Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star ...

A veterinarian reportedly entered a pen where a pig with a rectal prolapse was being isolated with five other pigs who were unable to walk normally, according to the USDA report. There was ...

A veterinarian reportedly entered a pen where a pig with a rectal prolapse was being isolated with five other pigs who were unable to walk normally, according to the USDA report. There was, allegedly, ...

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, commonly known as PETA, is asking the Sherburne County Attorney's Office to investigate a pig farm after a recent report of animal neglect. The animal ...