Opinion
Dave Dickey’s Perspective: Big Meat’s Proposition 12 nightmare soon will be a reality
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Long time Ag reporter, Dave Dickey, takes a look at California's Proposition 12
Agribusiness
Closure of Smithfield and other plants forces South Dakota pork producers to consider desperate measures
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The closure of major pork processing plants across the U.S., including the massive Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls, has state officials and pork producers in South Dakota planning for the worst — the potential euthanization of thousands of hogs that cannot be sold.
Food for thought
Opinion: New vaccine for pigs could help relieve prices at the grocery store
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It has been a tough couple of years for U.S. livestock producers. Columnist Dave Dickey looks at the challenges the industry faces.
Food for thought
Opinion: Is China taking over the U.S. pork industry?
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This past summer, the International Olympic Committee awarded China the winter games for 2022. What does that have to do with agriculture, you might reasonably ask?