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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)

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

Markets

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

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,

Canada’s pork sector has enjoyed rapid expansion of export markets.

Hogs, News

Pork posts positive export growth

The Canadian Pork Council says export growth will determine future industry growth

By Alex Binkley February 27, 2017

Canadian pork producers and processors have responded actively to new trade deals — and their success during the last decade has them looking for more opportunities. Statistics from the Canadian Pork Council show that in the decade ending in 2016, exports rose in value by 51 per cent to $3.8 billion from 2006 and by

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Hog market improving with solid exports

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News February 3, 2017

CNS Canada — Strong U.S. exports and declining cold-storage numbers have helped push hog prices on Canada’s Prairies to better levels than a few months back. According to the latest information compiled by Saskatchewan Agriculture, the U.S. exported 173,770 tonnes of pork in November 2016, up 13.5 per cent from 153,051 in October 2016, and

Hogs, Livestock

Pork packer HyLife to enter expansion mode

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 18, 2016

Manitoba hog slaughter and pork processing firm HyLife says it’s setting itself up for major expansions of its hog finishing and pork processing capacities. The company on Friday said “steady growth in demand” for its pork products overseas calls for an investment of up to $125 million in its integrated pork operations, to start “as

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle tick lower in thin pre-holiday trade

U.S. grains: Wheat extends gains on short covering, war risk

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Tag Archives pork exports

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

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

Pork posts positive export growth

Hog market improving with solid exports

Pork packer HyLife to enter expansion mode

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