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What the 2026 Swine Live Production Salary Survey Says About Pork Industry Talent
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 [...]
Why R&D Compensation Is So Hard to Benchmark?
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, [...]
Seven of Ten Beef Managers Were Open to Opportunities. What Should Employers Take From That?
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 [...]
Are You Building the Career You Want?
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 [...]
How to Make a Mill Manager Role More Recruitable
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. [...]
Neglecting to Sell the Job and the Opportunity
One thing we see quite often is that companies spend most of the interview deciding whether they like the candidate. Sometimes they forget that the candidate is making the same decision about them. That matters, especially when the interviewee is already employed and doing well. They may not be actively looking for another [...]
