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U.S. livestock: Lean hogs sink on weak cash market

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume October 24, 2019

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. lean hog futures fell for the sixth time in seven sessions on Thursday, pressured by weak cash hog prices and disappointing export data that showed minimal new sales of U.S. pork to China. Ample supplies of hogs and higher average slaughter weights have swelled pork supplies while demand from China,

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Tyson bans ractopamine from its U.S. hog supply

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 17, 2019

Reuters — Tyson Foods in February will stop buying U.S. hogs raised with a growth drug banned by China, the company said on Thursday, as global meat suppliers seek an edge in boosting sales to Chinese buyers facing a huge pork shortage due to an outbreak of a fatal pig disease. The halt in the

Fresh meat for sale at a grocery market in the city of Zunyi, in China’s Guizhou province. The country's pig farming industry is undergoing a second crisis in a decade, this time caused by African swine fever.

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China acknowledges domestic pork shortage

Rising prices are now a top political concern for Beijing 

By Alex Binkley October 8, 2019

News reports from Asia indicate the Chinese government is finally having to own up about that country’s pork shortages due to African swine fever (ASF) and trade disputes. The South China Morning Post has reported that Chinese Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua has been assigned to oversee the issue of rising pork prices that could mar October’s

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JBS USA to produce pork without ractopamine

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 4, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — JBS USA will remove a growth drug banned by Beijing from its U.S. hog supply, the company said on Friday, accelerating the competition for pork exports as China grapples with a devastating pig disease. The meat packer’s move away from the drug ractopamine, a feed additive, shows how companies are maneuvering

PED is a potentially devastating disease and can cause 80 to 100 per cent of piglet losses.

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Precautions urged as PED outbreak enters fall manure-spreading season

Producers are getting ready to begin fall spreading, but some manure lagoons will need extra precautions as the province’s PED numbers climb

By Alexis Stockford September 27, 2019

Manitoba’s latest battle with PED has put a new focus on biosecurity as fall manure spreading gets underway. The province suffered another spate of PED confirmations this month. The Chief Veterinary Office (CVO) had confirmed 78 cases as of Sept. 20, with the last confirmed Sept. 13. Eight of those cases have been added since

A macrophage (immune response) cell in early stages of infection with African swine fever virus, magnified about 1,000x. (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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South Korea confirms new cases of African swine fever

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 23, 2019

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea has confirmed new cases of African swine fever at hog farms in cities near the capital Seoul after the country’s first outbreak of the deadly virus last week, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. The new case occurred at a pig farm with about 1,800 pigs in the city

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Safety advocates sound alarm over new U.S. hog slaughter rules

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek September 19, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. food safety and the health of plant workers will be at risk from new federal rules that allow meat companies to slaughter hogs as fast as they want and shift the role of government inspectors, food and environmental advocates said on Tuesday. The warnings about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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Hog market at seasonal lows, turnaround expected

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 17, 2019

MarketsFarm — The Canadian hog market may be at its seasonal lows, but tightening worldwide supplies should underpin values over the next few months. “We’re at a seasonal time of year when prices move lower,” said Brad Marceniuk, livestock economist with Saskatchewan Agriculture, pointing to higher U.S. slaughter numbers and a slowdown in North American

File photo of piglets at a hog operation in China. (KuLouKu/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Markets

China to exempt U.S. pork, soybeans from additional tariffs

By GFM Network News September 13, 2019

Shanghai | Reuters — China will exempt some agricultural products from additional tariffs on U.S. goods, including pork and soybeans, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said Friday, in the latest sign of easing Sino-U.S. tensions before a new round of talks aimed at curbing a bruising trade war. The United States and China have both

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Chinese pork imports seen doubling over two years by 2020

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira August 26, 2019

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Chinese pork meat imports are projected to sharply rise from 2.1 million tonnes in 2018 to 3.3 million tonnes in 2019 and 4.2 million tonnes in 2020, because of the African swine fever outbreak, broker and consultancy INTL FCStone said on Monday. FCStone estimated during a commodities outlook conference in

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New foliar-applied nitrogen enters Canadian market

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U.S. livestock: Lean hogs sink on weak cash market

Tyson bans ractopamine from its U.S. hog supply

China acknowledges domestic pork shortage

JBS USA to produce pork without ractopamine

Precautions urged as PED outbreak enters fall manure-spreading season

South Korea confirms new cases of African swine fever

Safety advocates sound alarm over new U.S. hog slaughter rules

Hog market at seasonal lows, turnaround expected

China to exempt U.S. pork, soybeans from additional tariffs

Chinese pork imports seen doubling over two years by 2020

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