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CME May 2019 hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally on hopes for increased exports to China

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 3, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures charged higher on Wednesday, with the May contract surging 5.4 per cent, on hopes for a trade deal with China that would boost exports to the world’s largest consumer of pork. “U.S.-China trade talks restart in D.C. today and most accounts have those negotiations going

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog futures mixed, cattle futures firm

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub April 1, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures were mixed on Monday, with the front-month contract firming slightly after two straight days of declines while deferreds continued to ease. Traders said that fresh pork exports to China were required to ease the burdensome supplies and boost hog futures higher. “Even though we

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tumble after Trump threatens Mexico border closure

By GFM Network News, Karl Plume March 29, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures ended down sharply for a second straight day on Friday after a volatile session in which traders weighed thinner near-term hog supplies against risks to pork exports with Mexico. Early-session strength stemmed from a quarterly U.S. Department of Agriculture hog supply report, released after

A crenellated walkway on top of the Great Wall of China. (Cia.gov)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. pork, fruit producers brace for second wave of Chinese tariffs

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Tom Polansek June 22, 2018

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters — U.S. producers of pork, already saddled with duties enacted in an earlier round of the escalating trade dispute with China, are bracing for further pain after Beijing hit the products with additional tariffs due to come into effect next month. China implemented a 25 per cent duty on most U.S. pork

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Hogs, Livestock

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News April 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Pork producers in Western Canada are still grappling with old problems even as new opportunities present themselves in the export market, according to presenters at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Canadian pork exports in 2017 totaled 1.29 billion tonnes to a tune of $4 billion. On its

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Fund buying sends CME live cattle higher

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 5, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle rose sharply for a second straight day on Thursday, driven by short covering and fund buying, said traders. Investors, for now, are focused more on what packers will pay for cattle in the near term than a potential trade war with China, a trader said. On

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters March 30, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — The number of hogs on U.S. farms in the December-February quarter was up 3.1 per cent from the same period a year ago, a record high for the quarter, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report. Farmers added extra pigs, encouraged by less-costly feed during that period and the

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Officials aim to forge ahead with TPP as Canada wavers

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 22, 2018

Tokyo | Reuters — As trade officials gather in Tokyo this week to try and forge ahead with a trade pact that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned last year, the new 11-member club risks getting bogged down by resistance from Canada. The member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), also

Hogs, Livestock

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 29, 2017

Argentina is now ready to import Canadian pork for the first time in about 15 years, federal officials report. Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday that access to the Argentinian market has been restored for Canadian pork effective “immediately.” Canadian pork processors had started shipping to Argentina in 1998,

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Canada beats U.S. in pork sales to China – feet, elbows and all

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Rod Nickel June 5, 2017

Winnipeg/Chicago/Beijing | Reuters — Canada has overtaken the United States as the top North American supplier of pork to China as farmers and meat packers in both nations battle for lucrative shares of the biggest global market. Canada’s pork sales to China, after a sharp rise last year, exceeded those of the U.S. in the

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U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally on hopes for increased exports to China

U.S. livestock: Hog futures mixed, cattle futures firm

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tumble after Trump threatens Mexico border closure

U.S. pork, fruit producers brace for second wave of Chinese tariffs

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

U.S. livestock: Fund buying sends CME live cattle higher

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

Officials aim to forge ahead with TPP as Canada wavers

Canadian pork cleared for Argentina

Canada beats U.S. in pork sales to China – feet, elbows and all

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