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Are Footballs Really Made of Pigskin?

WERE FOOTBALLS EVER REALLY MADE OF PIGSKIN? By: Emily Upton These days, footballs are typically made from cowhide or vulcanized rubber, making their nickname “pigskins” somewhat ironic. Football fans often perpetuate the idea that footballs used to be made of pigskin, which is how they got their nickname, but it turns out this isn’t the […]

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Commentary: Should you worry about food animals causing drug resistance in people? No. Should you worry about raw milk? Definitely.

By JoAnn Alumbaugh, Editor, PORK Network August 12, 2016 Despite a PR Newswire headline intended to alarm consumers, a recently released report once more finds no conclusive evidence of a link between the use of antibiotics in food animals and the emergence of drug-resistantCampylobacter. The article began, “As controversy continues…” but in truth, “controversy” surrounding disease resistance caused by […]

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Pig Manure Could Build Roads in Future

14 July 2016 US – Professor Elle Fini and a team of researchers at North Carolina A&T State University have discovered what they believe to be the not so distant future of paved roadways. Through the support of the National Science Foundation, the team has found a way to extract the rich oil that is […]

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Did herbicide resistance exist before GMO crops?

By The Weed Science Society of America July 13, 2016 Society may think weeds resistant to herbicides are a new phenomenon linked to the overuse of glyphosate in genetically engineered crops, but nothing could be further from the truth. Next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the first reports of herbicide-resistant weeds, while this year marks only […]

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Employee Spotlight

Say hello to Mike Ciscell.  Mike has been employed at Tosh Farms for seven years.  He is a part of Bacon By Gosh, Inc., our trucking company, and he spends his time at work transporting pigs.   Outside of work, Mike enjoys baseball, hunting, and fishing.  He is most proud of his family including his […]

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Meat of the Matter: After the Brexit

By Dan Murphy June 27, 2016 The aftermath of the United Kingdom’s historic vote last week to leave the European Union has created a tsunami of reactions and results. The British pound plunged to its lowest level since 1985, The New York Times reported, as “investors fled risky assets” in favor the dollar and the yen. “Global markets are […]

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Record Corn Crop Coming

By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. USDA is predicting a record corn crop of 14.4 billion bushels this year. According to USDA’s latest projection, “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates,” this year’s crop would be 214 million bushels above the previous record in 2014, and 829 million bushels above last year. The average […]

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AASV Board addresses antibiotic-free production

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians’ (AASV) Board of Directors addressed the issue of antibiotic-free production during their spring board meeting on Mar. 21, 2016. Veterinary members of the association’s Pig Welfare and Pharmaceutical Issues committees raised concerns regarding pig health and well-being in antibiotic-free production systems. The committees considered issues associated with concerns that […]

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