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“If they get less money, there’s disruption in the marketplace, our producers will automatically get less money.” – Andrew Dickson, Manitoba Pork Council general manager.

Manitoba Pork worries after Chinese tariffs against U.S.

Canadian pork will not suffer the same Chinese tariff hikes as the U.S., but those tariffs will still be felt locally, experts warn

By Alexis Stockford April 13, 2018

Manitoba’s pork producers may not know the exact impact from China’s tariffs against the United States, but they know it’s coming. The U.S. pork sector has been caught up in the latest round of trade volleys between the United States and China. The Chinese government announced a sweep of tariffs April 1, blaming new U.S. tariffs against

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. to export pork to Argentina after 26 years

By David Lawder, GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer April 13, 2018

Washington/Chicago | Reuters — U.S. pork exporters will soon be free to ship meat to Argentina for the first time in 26 years after the two countries thrashed out an agreement to overturn an Argentinian import ban. The deal is a sliver of good news for U.S. farmers facing trade tariffs and disruption to exports

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume April 9, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied more than three per cent on Monday in a short-covering and bargain-buying rebound from life-of-contract lows posted last week, traders said. Some contracts, including actively-traded June, rose by as much as the daily three-cent limit as a steady slide in prices over the past

Representatives from Plainview Colony accept the reserve champion award from Ron Kristjansson (r), Provincial Exhibition of Manitoba general manager, during the 2018 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair pork quality competition. The colony took both first and second in this year’s competition.

Hogs, Local news

Plainview Colony brings home the bacon from Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Organizers say the annual competition was smaller than normal,  but judges had nothing but good feedback for the entries that were there

By Alexis Stockford April 9, 2018

Quantity may have been lacking, but there was no shortage of quality on display at the 2018 Royal Manitoba Winter Fair pork quality competition. Judge Jason Care said the smaller-than-average show was one of the few he has seen where every entry earned warm carcass points. “Most of the shows that I do, I have

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Hogs, Livestock

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Pork producers in Western Canada are still grappling with old problems even as new opportunities present themselves in the export market, according to presenters at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Canadian pork exports in 2017 totaled 1.29 billion tonnes to a tune of $4 billion. On its

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Tariffs raise tough questions for pork industry

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 6, 2018

CNS Canada — Representatives from the two largest pork-exporting states in the U.S. were in Winnipeg Thursday to take in the Manitoba Pork Council’s general meeting. The delegates, who hailed from Iowa and Minnesota, talked about the various challenges facing their industry. In 2017, over a quarter of the U.S. pork industry’s C$6.5 billion market

Attendees at the 2017 Food and Hotel China trade show watch USMEF chefs prepare U.S. beef and pork. (USMEF.org)

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

U.S. meat groups fear for market growth with China beef tariff hike

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters April 4, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — China’s proposal on Wednesday for tariffs on U.S. beef confirmed the worst-case scenario for the U.S. cattle industry, trade groups said Wednesday, even as they remained hopeful the dispute could be resolved quickly. China listed U.S. goods from soybeans to beef that could potentially incur a 25 per cent import tariff

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters March 30, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — The number of hogs on U.S. farms in the December-February quarter was up 3.1 per cent from the same period a year ago, a record high for the quarter, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report. Farmers added extra pigs, encouraged by less-costly feed during that period and the

A crenellated walkway on top of the Great Wall of China. (Cia.gov)

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. pork to feel further chill from China tariff threat

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 23, 2018

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters — China’s threat of steep tariffs on U.S. pork imports knocked down U.S. hog futures prices and shares of producers on Friday, while increasing fears of hard times for farmers already facing weaker demand from the world’s top buyer of the meat. U.S. farmers have worried for months that rising trade tensions

A worker checks sows on a large-scale pig farm owned by the Xinguangan company in Wuxuan county,  Guangxi province, China, December 14, 2017.

Hogs, International news

GOING BIG: Chinese pork producers supersize

The country is the world’s top pork market, but until recently most of it has been raised on small operations

By Dominique Patton February 20, 2018

Surrounded by mountains in a remote part of southwestern China, Xinguangan’s first large-scale, modern pig farm is getting ready to produce its first offspring. By the end of the year, 10,000 sows will live inside two huge barns on this 73-hectare (180-acre) site, producing up to 280,000 piglets annually, or about 20,000 tonnes of pork.

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Manitoba Pork worries after Chinese tariffs against U.S.

U.S. to export pork to Argentina after 26 years

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

Plainview Colony brings home the bacon from Royal Manitoba Winter Fair

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

Tariffs raise tough questions for pork industry

U.S. meat groups fear for market growth with China beef tariff hike

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

U.S. pork to feel further chill from China tariff threat

GOING BIG: Chinese pork producers supersize

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