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Russia combines assets to great new grain player

By Aleksandras Budrys February 5, 2009

The Russian government has sent a draft decree on creating a grain-trading company on the basis of state-owned assets to President Dmitry Medvedev for signing, powerful grain industry lobby said Jan. 12. “Once the decree is signed it will take one month or one month and a half to effectively transfer the assets,” Arkady Zlochevsky,

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Credit crisis slaughters Brazil packers’ expansions

By Roberto Samora January 29, 2009

“In some cases, slaughterhouses couldn’t support the speed of their expansion, on top of which there may have weighed management problems.” – Marcio Vieira, Pricewaterhouse Coopers The foreign acquisitions, record exports and expansion of slaughtering and processing capacity for beef in the past years is over for Brazilian meat packers. As in many other industries

Beef cattle, Other

Mexico clears U. S. meat plants

January 8, 2009

USDA confirmed Dec. 30 that Mexico has approved 20 of 30 suspended U. S. meat plants to resume shipments to that country. The 30 meat plants, which produce beef, pork, and poultry, were suspended from shipping to Mexico the previous week due to sanitary issues like packaging, labelling, and transport conditions, USDA and Mexican officials

Livestock, Livestock Markets

U. S.-fed cattle supply up, still historically low

By Jerry Bieszk January 1, 2009

The number of cattle being fattened in U. S. feedlots rose in November, but the tally is still near a historical low due to concerns the weak economy will hurt beef demand, analysts said. “Cattle-on-feed numbers grew seasonally from November to December, but the number of cattle-on-feed will be one of the lowest levels since

Cereals, Other

Group 1 resistance varies in wild oats

December 18, 2008

A Group 1 herbicide that Syngenta Crop Protection introduced as a tool against Group 1-resistant wild oats hasn’t outlived its usefulness, the company says. The company said Nov. 28 that its AMA Test pilot program found that out of 65 fields it tested, 25 per cent showed wild oats resistant to all Group 1 herbicides,

Other

USDA needs to improve slaughter inspection: report

By Christopher Doering December 18, 2008

The U. S. meat inspection system has flaws that may create food safety risks, although the problems that forced a California packer to conduct the largest meat recall ever are not widespread, according to a federal review. The audit by USDA’s inspector general came after a videotape released Jan. 30 showed Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. workers

Other

USDA seeks comment on ethanol enzyme

December 4, 2008

The U. S. Agriculture Department has asked for public comment on a request by Syngenta Seeds Inc. seeking to deregulate a genetically engineered type of corn that helps in the production of ethanol. The genetically engineered corn produces a microbial enzyme that facilitates ethanol production. Syngenta Seeds is part of Syngenta AG, the world’s largest

Cereals, Crops, Other livestock

Local wheat too expensive for feeders

By Lisa Shumaker December 4, 2008

U. S. hog producers will import wheat from Britain and Brazil due to the high cost of U. S. corn and feed grain, said Don Butler, spokesman for Murphy-Brown, the hog-raising unit of Smithfield Foods Inc. Hog producers will also import a cargo of wheat middlings, a byproduct of milling, from Nigeria, he said. The

Other, Poultry

U. S. egg sets down

By Reuters November 27, 2008

U. S. commercial hatcheries in the 19-state weekly program set 201 million eggs in incubators during the week ending Nov. 15, down seven per cent from the corresponding week a year earlier, the U. S. Agriculture Department said on Nov. 19. Average hatchability for chicks hatched during the week was 83 per cent. Broiler growers

Hogs, Livestock, News

German hog farms adapt to stall-free, drug-free model

By Jim Romahn November 27, 2008

Germany, it appears, could teach Canadian hog farmers a thing or two. And two of its hog producers came here to the annual swine industry seminar recently to do exactly that. German producers have learned through trial and “a lot of mistakes” how to raise hogs in free-stall conditions, said Dr. Friedrich Osterhoff of Ahrhoff

Daily Network News

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Disgruntled with Western pork, China wants to go back to black pigs

U.S. grains: Chicago grain prices fall amid profit-taking and dollar rebound

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