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U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hog futures hit two week lows on robust supplies

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Chicago | Reuters – CME Group live cattle and hog futures fell to two-week lows on Monday, pressured by bearish government supply reports released late on Friday. “There’s no shortage of market supplies or beef production until the fourth quarter at the earliest,” brokerage StoneX wrote in a note to clients. The U.S. Agriculture Department said on
A McDonald’s restaurant sign in San Diego on March 31, 2015. (File photo: Reuters/Mike Blake)
Hogs, Livestock

McDonald’s calls Icahn demands on sourcing pigs ‘unfeasible’

Investor cites company's 10-year-old pledge

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Boston | Reuters — McDonald’s Corp on Thursday said Carl Icahn’s call for the fast food chain to stop buying pork from suppliers that house the animals in crates would be logistically unfeasible and prohibitively expensive. The billionaire investor, who owns roughly US$50,000 worth of McDonald’s stock, is pushing the company to change how it
Small-scale farmers important for ASF prevention: Manitoba Pork
Hogs, Livestock

Small-scale farmers important for ASF prevention: Manitoba Pork

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On smaller, specialty hog farms, herd health — while taken just as seriously — can look a lot different, say two producers

Smaller-scale farmers have a part to play in keeping deadly African swine fever (ASF) out of Manitoba’s swine herd, says the Manitoba Pork Council. “When African swine fever went from wild pigs in Germany into the domestic herd, the first time was a farm with four pigs, and the second time was a farm with
File photo of piglets at a hog operation in China. (KuLouKu/iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock, Markets

China’s hog output recovers, drags on Brazil pork exports

China's total Q1 pork imports down 64 per cent

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Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazilian pork exporters are grappling with a drop in volumes shipped to their main buyer, China, which has increased its pork meat production after an outbreak of African swine fever in 2018. ASF forced China to cull millions of hogs and increase imports. China continued to be Brazil’s top pork
Hogs, News

Manure releases from Smithfield hog farms raise environmental concerns

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Reuters – More than 20 Missouri hog farms have reported an increase in emergency manure releases since U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods took them over in 2006, an environmental advocacy group says, citing equipment failures and improper maintenance that raise concerns about the impact on air and water quality. The group, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project
Iowa Pork Producers president Kevin Rasmussen (left) speaks alongside Manitoba Pork chair Rick Prejet (centre) and Minnesota Pork Producers president John Anderson (right).
Hogs, News

North American pork producers face tight labour market

U.S. packers struggling to staff up, sending hams to Mexico for processing, producers heard

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Labour issues for pork producers and processors in Iowa and Minnesota are just as dire as in Manitoba, pork producers heard during their AGM on April 6. “Currently labour is our No. 1 issue on the farm as well as in the plants,” said Kevin Rasmussen, president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association. Rasmussen spoke
Left to right: Fair co-chair Wayne Buhr, Manitoba Pork Council general manager Cam Dahl, Mike Hofer of Barrickman Colony and judge Jason Care pose in front of the winning carcass of the 2022 RMWF pork quality competition.
Hogs, News

Pork quality competition returns to RMWF

Royal Manitoba Winter Fair competition saw an above-average 16 entries during its grand return

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Jason Care of Manitoba Hog Grading had little to complain about judging the entries of the 2022 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair (RMWF) pork quality competition. Of the above-average 16 carcasses entered, a quarter had broken the 80-point mark, out of a total of 111 points possible. Colour was, in general, good, ranging consistently more to
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Hogs, Livestock

Alberta looks into ‘isolated’ case of PED

Feed, other objects considered possible sources

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The source of what’s believed to have been an “isolated” recent case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in southern Alberta was likely either feed or some object brought into the barn, veterinary officials say. The chief provincial veterinarian’s office said it was informed by a private veterinarian on Feb. 24 of a suspected case of
Manitoba Pork has set up a new working group to tackle the spread of PED, hoping to break the two-year cycle.
Hogs, Livestock, News

Manitoba pork sector to hone PED strategy

Recommendations from a value chain-spanning working group on PED are expected in late spring or summer 2022

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The pork sector will not have to wait long for action items to come out of a new working group to reduce PED (porcine epidemic diarrhea). Cam Dahl, general manager with the Manitoba Pork Council, says the multi-stakeholder group is already meeting, and he expects recommendations to start flowing in by late spring or early
A group of wild boars running in Europe, where the pigs have caused challenges with disease spread. (iStock/Getty Images)
Hogs, Livestock

Saskatchewan to license, limit wild boar farming

Moratorium placed on any new farms

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Saskatchewan is tightening its rules on wild boar farming, including a moratorium on any new farms, in a renewed bid to keep the province’s feral pig population in check. The provincial ag ministry announced the moratorium Wednesday and said it’s “developing regulations for licensing existing commercial wild boar farms.” Regulations for wild boar and feral

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