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Smithfield Returns To Profit, Tops Street View

By Bob Burgdorfer March 18, 2010

U. S. hog and pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. posted its first quarterly profit since 2008 and said its hog unit, a longtime drag on results, should improve in the coming fiscal year. The company also said pork sales to China and Russia should resume soon, and restructuring its pork segment should boost earnings in

Hogs, Livestock

Big Sky Files For Creditor Protection: Reports

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 19, 2009

Big Sky Farms, the largest hog production company in Saskatchewan, has applied for creditor protection, according to Saskatchewan media. The Humboldt, Sask. company cited an unprecedented downturn in North America’s markets for pork, Canadian Press said Nov. 11. CBC quoted Big Sky CEO Casey Smit as saying in a news release that “while today’s actions

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Maple Leaf To Conduct Hog Loading Site Inspections

By Ron Friesen November 12, 2009

Maple Leaf Meats is increasing its surveillance of loading practices for hogs shipped to the company’s slaughter plant at Brandon. Maple Leaf will conduct assessments at loading sites in Manitoba between now and December 2010, a company official said. Sixteen farms randomly selected from Maple Leaf’s hog operation network will undergo loading assessments to ensure

Beef cattle, Hogs, News, Poultry

Investors Liking The Taste Of U. S. Meat Companies

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

“Even though we may be at the bottom of the recession, we still have to climb out of it.” – JIM ROBB Investors like the taste of meat again, bidding up shares of Tyson, Smithfield, Hormel and Sanderson Farms as the spring and summer cookout season is about to heat up. While some of these

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock

New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

Bryan Karwal raises and sells 18,000 Canadianborn hogs a year on his Iowa farm, but a new food-labelling law designed to help consumers threatens that business because it has shut off key markets for the hogs. The law has also angered Canada and Mexico because they say it will hurt demand for their cattle and

Beef cattle, Hogs, News

Troubles Not Over For U. S. Meat Firms

By Bob Burgdorfer March 26, 2009

U. S. meat companies can expect a few more months of financial pressure as they work through supplies of high-priced feed and deal with soft demand for beef, chicken and pork amid a global recession, credit analysts said March 17. Feed costs have come down and meat production is being reduced, which has raised optimism

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, News

Closing Feedyards Could Increase Beef Prices

By Bob Burgdorfer March 5, 2009

“In the long term, consumers are going to see much higher meat and poultry prices because the economic conditions are causing livestock producers to cut production.” – JIM ROBB Amer icans are eat ing more hamburgers and fewer steaks as the economy wallows in recession, and that has led to huge losses at U. S.

Hogs, News

Smithfield To Shut Plants, Cut Jobs

By Bob Burgdorfer February 26, 2009

Smithfield Foods said Feb. 17 it would close six processed meat plants and eliminate 1,800 jobs while retaining its current hog slaughter capacity as it restructures its pork group. Smithfield, the largest U. S. hog and pork producer, makes more than 50 brands of pork and turkey products including John Morrell, Eckrich and Armour. None

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Smithfield workers vote for union

January 1, 2009

Meat cutters at the world’s largest pork plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, have voted to be represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, a decision that should end more than 10 years of bitter fighting between the union and the plant’s owner, Smithfield Foods Inc. The tally was 2,041 in favour of

Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

California resolution rings alarm for livestock farmers in Canada

By Ron Friesen November 20, 2008

Largely unnoticed during the November 4 U. S. presidential election was the passage of a sweeping California ballot initiative which could have far-reaching effects for livestock production in North America. Proposition 2 will effectively ban gestation stalls, battery cages and veal crates in California by 2015. The initiative, which voters passed by a margin of

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Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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