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Closing Feedyards Could Increase Beef Prices

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“In the long term, consumers are going to see much higher meat and poultry prices because the economic conditions are causing livestock producers to cut production.” – JIM ROBB Amer icans are eat ing more hamburgers and fewer steaks as the economy wallows in recession, and that has led to huge losses at U. S.
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Future Of Ontario Single Desk In Limbo

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Ontario’s hog producers are hanging in limbo on when or whether the pork board will lose its single-desk marketing powers April 1. Things might get clearer after a pre-hearing conference by the Ontar io Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs tribunal March 9. One of the key issues is whether all of the changes at Ontario
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Company To Provide Hog-Marketing Services

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Manitoba pork producers are predicting a brave new world for interprovincial trade with the formation of a hog-marketing venture with Saskatchewan. Manitoba Pork Marketing Co-op and SPI Marketing Group have formed a company to act as a service centre for producers in both provinces. The new company called h@ ms (hog administrative marketing services) is
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Smithfield To Shut Plants, Cut Jobs

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Smithfield Foods said Feb. 17 it would close six processed meat plants and eliminate 1,800 jobs while retaining its current hog slaughter capacity as it restructures its pork group. Smithfield, the largest U. S. hog and pork producer, makes more than 50 brands of pork and turkey products including John Morrell, Eckrich and Armour. None
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DDGS Hailed As Swine Feed Option

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The United States and Canada should join forces to create a win-win situation for ethanol production and hog farming. That was the message from an Alberta scientist to a recent international grains conference in Guatemala. Eduardo Beltranena, an Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development research scientist, said U. S. ethanol plants can broaden their markets by
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Carcass Demerits Are An Overlooked Cost

bernie peet Peet on Pigs “The results showed that approximately 10-20 per cent of all hogs delivered had some form of a demerit valued at $0.60-$1.20/hog.” Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator.
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Brazil’s JBS Drops U. S. National Beef Bid

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Brazil’s JBS, the world’s largest beef producer and owner of JBS-Swift, has abandoned its attempt to take over U. S. meat company National Beef Packing Co., saying it could not work out an agreement with U. S. authorities over terms of the deal. JBS became the No. 3 U. S. beef producer in 2008 when
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Credit Crunch Hits The Pork Industry

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“Every pig farmer’s risk rating is worse now than it was 18 months ago.” – STEPHEN MOFFETT, CPC Canada’s pork producers are worried the current financial crisis, coupled with continuing tough times in the industry, is causing them a serious credit crunch. The Canadian Pork Council is asking Ottawa to further loosen an already-extended repayment
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China Blames Blue Ear For Over 1,000 Pig Deaths

Blue ear disease has killed more than 1,000 pigs in the northern province of Shanxi, but agriculture experts said the spread of the disease should be contained by a vaccination program. Local authorities have sealed villages and forced local breeders to vaccinate pigs to prevent the spread of the disease, which killed 1,056 pigs in
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Prairie Orchard eyes Chinese market

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The folks at Max Pro Feed Ltd., were watching with interest as consumers were beginning to snatch up omega-3-enriched eggs and other foods containing the beneficial fatty acid a few years ago. They wondered whether consumers would go for omega-3-enriched meat too. If so, how could it be produced? And was this an opportunity for

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