CME August 2022 feeder cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, brown and dark red lines). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle futures firm on weaker corn

China's COVID lockdowns pressure CME hogs

Chicago | Reuters — CME live and feeder cattle futures firmed on Monday, supported by lower corn futures, an input cost to feeder cattle, analysts said. “The big driver there was just lower corn,” said Josh Steinhilber, broker at Cattlehedgers.com. “We got spillover into the live cattle.” CME August feeder cattle added 5.8 cents, to

CBOT July 2022 soybeans (candlesticks) with 20- and 50-day moving averages (yellow and green lines). (Barchart)

U.S. grains: Soybeans drop to three-week lows

Wheat futures hit lowest since April 8; corn drops to one-week low

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago soybean futures dropped to a more than three-week low on Monday, pressured by falling crude oil markets and delayed U.S. corn planting that some analysts think could push farmers to plant more soybeans. Corn fell ahead of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s weekly planting progress report on Monday afternoon, showing


CME June 2022 live cattle (candlesticks) with 20-, 30-, 40- and 200-day moving averages (pink, brown, dark red and black lines). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME cattle, hog futures weak as feeding costs rise

Corn's 'unending rally' drags on feeder cattle

Chicago | Reuters — CME cattle futures fell on Wednesday as traders assessed higher feeding costs due to a sharp gains in corn. Hog futures were also weak, falling for the sixth time in seven sessions, with prospects for more COVID-19 lockdowns in China further chilling the already weak export demand from the world’s top

File photo of a rooster being swabbed in testing for avian influenza. (Merrimon/iStock/Getty Images)

China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu

Beijing | Reuters — China has recorded the first human infection with the H3N8 strain of bird flu, the country’s health authority said on Tuesday, but said the risk of it spreading among people was low. A four-year-old boy from central Henan province was found to have been infected with the variant after developing a



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

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

China's total Q1 pork imports down 64 per cent

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


CME June 2022 lean hogs (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (pink, brown and dark red lines). (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures top two-week high

Chicago cattle futures ease

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied to their highest price in more than two weeks on Monday, while live cattle and feeder cattle futures weakened. Hopes for increased domestic demand from summertime grilling and cookouts helped lift hog futures, analysts said. They added that surging grain and soybean futures raised

China sees little impact from sanctions on potash exports

China sees little impact from sanctions on potash exports

Sanctions on exports of potash fertilizer from Belarus and Russia are not impacting supply in China, an executive from state-owned fertilizer maker Sinofert Holdings said, due to sufficient domestic stocks. Belarus and Russia are among the world’s top three producers of potash, and China is a major importer. Exports from Belarus were sanctioned by Washington


Hog sale prices currently average about half of what they were a year ago.

China’s hog farmers face long slog in return to profit

Higher grain prices and COVID restaurant closures are hitting them hard

China’s pig farmers, suffering record losses due to surging feed costs and weak hog demand, are switching to lower-quality grain from pricier soymeal and even selling off assets in a bid for survival. The pain across the world’s largest hog market, however, could last until next year, said analysts, shrinking incomes across China’s rural economy

China to increase soybean acreage by 1.3 million hectares in 2022

China to increase soybean acreage by 1.3 million hectares in 2022

China expects to increase its soybean-planting acreage this year and has released soybean oil and soybeans from its reserves in an effort to boost market supply, state radio reported March 17. The country’s soybean-planting acreage is expected to increase by more than 1.3 million hectares in 2022 based on preliminary estimates, state radio reported, citing