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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

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.

Market access is important to producers. According to the NPPC, over 25 percent of pork production is exported to other markets. In 2020, the US pork industry exported $7.7 billion in pork and pork products to over 100 countries.