Genus has received FDA approval for its gene-edited PRRS-resistant pig, the company hopes to reduce disease and antibiotic ...

PIC's gene-edited pigs are highly resistant to one of the most harmful viruses affecting pig populations worldwide today.

A federal program utilizing helicopters and specially designed traps has shown progress in controlling feral hog populations ...

Pigs produced to be resistant to one of the world’s most costly livestock diseases, using technology developed by the Roslin Institute, have been approved for sale to US consumers. The US Food and ...

Prices at the Iowa/Minnesota and the Eastern Corn Belt were not reported due to confidentiality. According to the USDA’s Weekly Feeder Pig report, early-weaned pigs were steady to $2 lower. Feeder ...

To date, however, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the SNAP program, hasn't granted the required waivers for states to curb food stamp purchases. But the Trump administration ...

“The resource is just not there,” Katie Jarvis, a senior policy advisor at the National Pig Association, said ... have the resources they need to stamp out this practice. “In an ever more uncertain ...

Governors in several states have recently announced plans to eliminate some unhealthy foods from their food stamps programs ... United States Department of Agriculture requesting permission ...

As the Trump administration aims to “Make America Healthy Again,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expediting state requests to eliminate soda and candy from eligible food stamp purchases, ...

The Agriculture Department is fast-tracking state requests to yank soda and candy from food-stamp programs. Arkansas and Indiana are among the first in line. Both states Tuesday said they were ...

The SNAP program is run by the USDA and administered through individual states. It is authorized by the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, which says that SNAP benefits can be used for “any ...