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The USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey looks to create a "balance sheet and income statement for all of American farming". "And then also we're taking this deeper dive in to swine operations, so they're will be quite a number of swine operators who are part of the survey," said NASS chair Joe Parsons ...

In the final moments of the Trump Administration, the USDA announced further changes to the Livestock Risk Protection insurance plan. The changes took effect on Wednesday for crop year 2021 and succeeding crop years. USDA says the improvements include increasing livestock head limits for feeder and fed cattle to 6,000 head per endorsement or 12,000 head annually and swine to 40,000 head per endor

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 ...

The USDA says it’s important that any swine producers who come across blisters or lameness around the blisters of feet of their animals, get them tested to determine if it’s Senecavirus A or the far worse Foot and Mouth Disease.   USDA Veterinarian Dr. Jack Shere said...