Bacon fans stay loyal, but futures wobble

Standing at the meat counter at a Mariano’s grocery store in Chicago, a half-dozen customers bantered with the butchers about the recent World Health Organization report linking processed meat to colorectal cancer. “Give me two pounds of bacon,” said Roland Marks, 47, a software engineer, rolling his eyes. “I’ll take my chances.” It is too[...]

U.S. drought heading from croplands to the meat counter

The worst drought to hit U.S. cropland in more than half a century could soon leave Americans reaching deeper into their pockets to fund a luxury that people in few other countries enjoy: affordable meat.Drought-decimated fields have pushed grain prices sky high, and the rising feed costs have prompted some livestock producers to liquidate their[...]


Tyson looks for other pork export markets after China ban

Chicago | Reuters -- Tyson Foods plans to find other export markets for its pork products after a recent delivery to China triggered an export ban of half its U.S. hog slaughterhouses, the company told Reuters Friday. The U.S. Agriculture Department announced earlier this week that China was barring future pork imports from six U.S[...]

Piglet virus spreads to North Carolina's hog farms

A swine virus deadly to piglets has been discovered on two hog farms in North Carolina, an official in the No. 2 hog-producing U.S. state said Tuesday. Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was found at a sow farm, where piglets are born, and at a finishing farm where hogs are fattened up for slaughter, said[...]