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New National 4-H Leaders Elected

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The Canadian 4-H Council elected Judy Shaw president at its recent annual meeting in Prince Edward Island. Shaw was elected by her fellow board members for a two-year term, and replaces previous president, Robert McAuley. Shaw has been involved in 4-H since 1996 when she became the member representative of Syngenta Canada for the Canadian
Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Jul. 9, 2009

Move in new livestock direction Governments have once again chosen political expediency over science. They are doling out another $37 million to the hog industry. Why? Because, in the words of the minister of agriculture, “the false connection to the H1N1 flu,” is unjustly damaging the industry. She makes no mention of how she reached
Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Industry Struggling

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Summer is usually a profitable time for America’s hog producers but this year swine flu, recession and high feed prices have even the largest farmers operating deep in the red and some smaller ones on the brink of bankruptcy. Before things get better, the weakest are expected to fail and even those who survive will
Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Reduction Effort Floated

Asmall group of U. S. hog producers has devised an industry-financed plan to reduce the domestic hog herd as a means of restoring profits to an industry that has been losing money since late 2007. Called the Producer Retirement Program, the goal is to collect $50 million to $60 million, which would then be used
Hogs, Livestock, News

Environmental Regulations Squeeze Spanish Hog Farmers

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“It was a successful model. It seemed like everybody was winning.” – VICTORIA SOLDEVILA Large-scale hog farming worked wonders for the Catalonian economy – for a while. Economically depressed for decades by a long civil war and later the rule of fascist dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish autonomous territory bordered by France on one side
Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield’s Outlook Improves

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Smithfield Foods Inc. said May 13 it should meet its fiscal 2009 fourth-quarter debt covenants and appears to be on track to comply with fiscal 2010 covenants. It also said pork exports are recovering after being disrupted recently when countries banned the meat as a precaution against the H1N1 strain of flu. Speaking at the
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Syngenta Upbeat Outlook Boosts Shares

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Syngenta AG, the world’s largest agrochemicals company, has reported a four per cent fall in first-quarter sales but stayed upbeat about the full year, sending its shares over seven per cent higher. Syngenta, which makes products to kill weeds and bugs as well as genetically modified seeds, said sales totalled $3.6 billion, a seven per
Livestock

Spring Snowstorm Hurts U. S. Cattle

Cattle producers last week were digging out from a rare springtime blizzard that dumped more than a foot of snow on March 28 and 29 that killed cattle and stressed others from the Texas panhandle to southwest Kansas. Cattle feedlot operators worked long hours during the weekend clearing paths so that cattle could be fed.
Beef cattle, Livestock

U. S. Cattle Fattening Up As Beef Sales Slow

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“The real problem is demand.” U. S. cattle have been gaining weight instead of earning money for producers these days, but beef sales should speed up during the spring grilling season. The average weight of steers and heifers set monthly records in January, and February, and remained large in March, according to the Livestock Marketing

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