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Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

By GFM Network News, Julie Steenhuysen, Michael Hirtzer April 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans. Routine pig-human organ transplants are years away, but recent scientific advances are breaking down barriers

Alberta Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier speaks with Alberta Beef Producers’ Tom Lynch-Staunton, Roland Cailliau and Bob Lowe (l-r). (Government of Alberta photo)

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock

Alberta to restore non-refundable checkoff option

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 11, 2017

Alberta’s farmed-commodity commissions may soon be able to make their checkoffs non-refundable again if their producer members are willing. The provincial government on Tuesday tabled amendments to the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act (MAPA) which would grant each of the province’s 13 agricultural commissions the ability to determine whether their checkoffs should be refundable or

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs narrowly mixed on quarter-end positioning

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer March 31, 2017

Chicago/Reuters – U.S. livestock futures were narrowly mixed on Friday, with live cattle edging slightly higher in a rebound from an earlier 10-day low as investors squared up their positions on the final day of the quarter, traders and analysts said. Most-active Chicago Mercantile Exchange June live cattle settled unchanged at 110.875 cents per lb,

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog prices rally on bargain buying before USDA report

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters March 30, 2017

Chicago/Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs finished higher on Thursday, with strength from bargain buying prior to what turned out to be a neutral U.S. government hog report after futures closed, said traders. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly hog report showed a record-large March 1 herd, with most of the data close to

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

‘Operation Weak Flesh’ takes bite out of Brazil’s meat exports

By Alberto Alerigi, GFM Network News March 25, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters –– Brazil’s meat exports have fallen sharply since a police investigation into alleged bribery of food-sanitation inspectors in the world’s top beef and poultry exporter sparked a wave of trade bans, an industry group said on Friday. Import restrictions by several key importers of Brazilian meat, ranging from China to Europe,

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Canadian hog prices to rise by summer

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News March 17, 2017

CNS Canada — Cheap prices for feed and a softer Canadian dollar have helped keep Canadian hog prices aloft so far in 2017. “Right now producers are looking at $180 to $184 a pig,” said Andrew Dickson, general manger of Manitoba Pork. “Prices are looking pretty good for June, July, August.” By July, he said,

Hogs, Livestock, Weather

Manitoba to axe limits on hog barns

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 17, 2017

UPDATED, March 20 — Manitoba’s restrictions on hog barn and manure storage construction are set to be shelved by way of an omnibus “red tape reduction” bill. Provincial Finance Minister Cameron Friesen on Thursday introduced Bill 24 for first reading. Among its 15 proposed amendments to various pieces of legislation, the bill would repeal two

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

PED pops back up in southern Ontario

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 14, 2017

Porcine epidemic diarrhea has appeared on two hog operations in southern Ontario, after nearly eight months with no new cases in the province. Ontario Pork reported the province’s 100th and 101st cases of PED on Feb. 22 and March 7, at finisher barns in Middlesex County and in the Haldimand-Norfolk district respectively. Ontario — home

Hogs, Livestock

JBS to buy U.S. pork processor Plumrose

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff March 13, 2017

U.S. ham and bacon processor Plumrose is set to become an arm of major Brazilian meatpacker JBS. JBS, whose holdings include one of Canada’s biggest beef packing plants at Brooks, Alta., announced Monday it has an agreement in place to buy Plumrose from Danish co-operative Danish Crown for US$230 million. The deal would give JBS

Hogs, Livestock, Weather

Oklahoma wildfires kill thousands of pigs

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Renita D. Young March 10, 2017

Reuters — Wildfires devastated a Smithfield Foods hog farm in Laverne, Oklahoma, killing at least several thousand pigs, company and local officials said Friday. The exact number of swine killed in the Oklahoma fire, which began on Monday, was not immediately known. Smithfield did not say how many died in the blaze, but said no

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Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

Alberta to restore non-refundable checkoff option

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs narrowly mixed on quarter-end positioning

U.S. livestock: Hog prices rally on bargain buying before USDA report

‘Operation Weak Flesh’ takes bite out of Brazil’s meat exports

Canadian hog prices to rise by summer

Manitoba to axe limits on hog barns

PED pops back up in southern Ontario

JBS to buy U.S. pork processor Plumrose

Oklahoma wildfires kill thousands of pigs

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