Will China Meat Consumption Rebound in 2021?

Driven by higher estimates for pork, the China total meat import forecasts for both 2020 and 2021 are revised 4% and 1% higher, respectively, according to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Livestock and Poultry World Markets and Trade report.

John Phipps: The End of Inventory is Near

The turn of the year is a good time to take stock of, well, your stock. But this year, as we are twiddling our collective thumbs waiting for the pandemic penalty to run out, we could do this job right. If we do, many of us discover the Age of Stuff may have passed.

COVID-19 Case Rates in Packing Plants Decline as General Population Rate Soars

Efforts to protect the men and women working to keep Americans’ refrigerators full are working, says Meat Institute president and CEO Julie Anna Potts.

Watch Analysis of Tuesday's USDA Reports

USDA cut the 2020 average corn yield by 3.8 bu. compared to the November estimate. AgriTalk's Chip Flory discusses where that nearly unprecedented reduction may have come from.

ARS Advances Fight Against Deadly African Swine Fever Virus

A recent change in regulatory status may speed up commercial work on African swine fever (ASF) vaccine candidates, said Douglas Gladue, a USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) microbiologist at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC).

#FJFieldFieldDays: How COVID-19 Transformed Machinery Auctions

We’ve seen seven to 10 years of technology advancement with online equipment buying and selling condensed into less than a year. That’s the takeaway from Greg Peterson, founder of Machinery Pete, as he looks back at the past nine months of online auctions. Log on to Farm Journal Field Days now for more insights.