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Each year, we spend a lot of time talking with people working throughout pork production. Compensation is always part of those conversations, but salary alone does not tell the whole story. Our 2026 Swine Live Production Salary Survey received 136 responses. The results were reviewed before analysis, with incomplete or unreliable responses excluded from the [...]
R&D and Product Development positions can look similar on paper and operate very differently inside the company. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 10 respondents working in research, product development, R&D, and related technical development functions. They came from Animal Health and Nutrition suppliers, genetics and breeding companies, animal [...]
Beef employers often assume that experienced managers are difficult to recruit because most of them are not actively looking. That is usually true. It does not mean they are unwilling to listen. Our 2026 Animal Health & Nutrition Technical Professional Salary Survey included 19 Beef respondents within Technical/Sales Support: nine solo contributors and 10 [...]
Like many people, I take some time in the fall to look back at the year and ask myself a few questions. Am I living the life I want? Are things moving in the direction I expected? Am I spending my time on work that still matters to me? There is another question I [...]
By Cris Soronio “You can do anything for a summer.” Brigitte was a college junior whose money was running low. A friend had told her that a sow unit near her home was hiring summer interns. The position paid $9 an hour, required every other weekend, and would likely come with overtime. So she applied. [...]
Some feed and grain companies assume a hard-to-fill mill manager role is just a market problem. Sometimes it is. The candidate pool is tight. Strong mill managers are usually employed. Many are not actively looking. Relocation is harder than it used to be. Compensation expectations have changed. Rural locations can quickly narrow the field. All [...]
Sharing the Stories That Keep Our Industry Moving Forward – Cris Soronio If there’s one thing I’ve learned from recruiting in the swine industry, it’s that behind every thriving farm or production system, there’s a story, often one that doesn’t get told enough. And many of those stories belong to women. From production managers [...]
From Ecuador to the U.S. pork industry, she built her career by learning every part of the job and leading with calm authority. By Cris Soronio When I called Alina Porta for this interview, she was driving home from a site visit on a Friday afternoon. That felt fitting. Her career has been built in [...]
“Tiffany Lee stepped into the swine with honest questions and a willingness to learn. This shaped her career then, and it still shapes the way she leads now.” By Cris Soronio Why do we do it this way? Tiffany Lee has built a career around that question. It took her from a small farm in [...]
The girl from Allentown who worried about veterinary school timelines could never have predicted she would end up auditing sow farms across state lines. By Cris Soronio As a recruiter in the swine industry, I spend countless hours on the phone with candidates, hiring managers, and production leaders. Over time, you start to notice certain [...]
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