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On Monday, the USDA announced changes to the Livestock Gross Margin insurance program for cattle and swine starting in 2021. Changes include adding premium subsidies to assist producers and moving premium due dates to the end of the endorsement period for cattle ...

Last week, the Oregon Department of Agriculture reported seeing an increase of out-of-state swine coming into the state from several Midwestern locations, because of the coronavirus pandemic. The ODA said closures at meatpacking plants have left farmers with nowhere to process their hogs ...

According to the latest outlook, the USDA is expecting lower prices across the meat sector. World Ag Outlook Chair Mark Jekanowski said that expectation comes from production changes. "Our beef production forecast we've pulled back a bit, mainly based on lower steer and heifer slaughter, and given the very low prices for cattle recently that also suggests producers might be holding some catt

Many businesses are pretty much able to function with people tele-working from home but obviously for farms and related businesses, as Mike Keenan, RMA insurance expert pointed out, "our conditions are different than an office setting." He added there is some farm desk work that can be done from somewhere else, but a lot of farm work cannot ...

Kendyl Wiley, the 2019-2020 FFA Vice President explains how market hogs in the 5th grade struck up a passion for the FFA.         If you have a story idea for the Washington Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekradio.com...

An appeals court struck down the gag order put into effect by the trial judge in the North Carolina hog nuisance lawsuits because it violated the First Amendment.  Meating Place said the court granted defendant Murphy-Brown’s request to strike down the gag order.  The three-jud...

The Seneca Valley Virus has been showing up in pigs throughout the US and, specifically, in hogs imported to Oregon from Canada by truck.   State Veterinarian Dr. Brad LeaMaster said Oregon has reported more than 50 cases of Seneca Valley Virus since September and officials have to take each one very seriously.  ...

The USDA’s quarterly report on hogs and pigs shows an increase of about two percent in the number of head with a new quarterly record, and farrowing was also up two percent.   Shayle Shagam, USDA Livestock Analyst said there’s a good reason.   “Throug...

The quarterly look at hogs and pigs by the USDA showed record inventory for March 1st since the USDA began keeping records in the 1970s.   Livestock Analyst Shayle Shagam said that could mean a rough time for prices though.   “Even with relatively moderate grain prices, producer margins probably be squeezed and that may be part of the reason why when you move into their intentions for production i

Reports of a bacon shortage have been greatly exaggerated.   But demand for pork bellies, the key component of bacon, no longer is seasonal and USDA Livestock Analyst Shayle Shagam said that is why storage numbers were a little on the lower side.  ...