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Door opens to hog expansion
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Door opens to hog expansion

Anaerobic digesters out, new barns in

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New hog barns will be built Manitoba. After an all-night session at the Manitoba Legislature, Bill 24 has passed its final reading and received royal assent. Better known as the Red Tape Reduction and Government Efficiency Act, Bill 24 covers legislation ranging from consumer protection and labour relations, to residential tenancies and transportation of dangerous
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures mixed on spreading, cash declines

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Chicago | Reuters – U.S. livestock futures were widely mixed on Thursday, with nearby live cattle and lean hog contracts hitting multi-week lows in bear-spreading as traders moved into deferred positions. Worries of weaker prices in cash markets for cattle and hogs further weighed on front-month contracts while the third of the five-day Standard &
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures slump 3rd straight session

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle lost ground for a third day in a row on Wednesday, led by lower early-week cash prices, traders said. Funds involved in CME livestock futures that track the Standard & Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index periodically sold, or “rolled,” December long positions mainly into deferred months.
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cash price unease weakens CME live cattle futures

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle on Tuesday settled lower, pressured by sell stops and caution in advance of cash prices later this week, traders said. Funds involved in CME livestock futures that track the Standard & Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index sold, or “rolled,” December long positions mainly into February and
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Profit-taking undercuts CME live cattle futures

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle closed lower on Monday, hit by profit-taking after last week’s sharply higher cash prices drove some trading months up by their 3-cents per pound daily price limit on Friday. Funds “rolled” the December contract and simultaneously bought deferred ahead of similar moves on Tuesday. Tuesday is
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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures retreat from 5-month high

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Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle on Thursday settled lower, pressured by profit-taking after futures posted new highs for the contract and reached their highest level in almost five months, said traders. December futures led decliners after funds “rolled” that month and at the same time purchased deferred contracts ahead of similar
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Hogs, Local news

Bill 24 to allow new hog barns

A diverse group of individuals and organizations spend two nights making the case for and against the hog industry

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Untreated manure is good for the soil, anaerobic digesters are ineffective, hogs will poison Lake Winnipeg, farm expansion has ignored Treaty Land Entitlements and immigration relies on the pork industry. Those are just a sampling of the varied opinions heard by an all-party committee of the provincial legislature last week during two days of public
Jenelle Hamblin will be tackling disease response in Manitoba as the Manitoba Pork Council’s new swine health program manager.
Hogs, Livestock

Swine health hire highlights disease management

PEDv has highlighted the need to take a proactive approach to swine health issues

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When Jenelle Hamblin agreed to join Manitoba Pork a couple of months back, she always knew it would be trial by fire. She was joining the organization as its swine health program manager in the midst of an outbreak of the porcine disease PEDv, a situation that’s roiled the pork sector throughout North America in
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Hogs, Livestock, Pulses

Maple Leaf Q3 profit beats on overall sales growth

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Reuters — Maple Leaf Foods, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts’ estimates, helped by growth across all its businesses. The company, whose brands include Schneiders, Maple Leaf and, since March, Lightlife, said adjusted operating earnings rose to $65.15 million in the third quarter from $61.52 million a year

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