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

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs rise on China trade optimism

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen October 9, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed higher on Wednesday for a second straight session on hopes that U.S. trade talks with China, at a time of surging Chinese pork prices, could bolster U.S. pork exports, traders said. CME December lean hog futures settled up 2.075 cents at 69.475 cents/lb., just

Fresh meat for sale at a grocery market in the city of Zunyi, in China’s Guizhou province. The country's pig farming industry is undergoing a second crisis in a decade, this time caused by African swine fever.

Hogs, News

China acknowledges domestic pork shortage

Rising prices are now a top political concern for Beijing 

By Alex Binkley October 8, 2019

News reports from Asia indicate the Chinese government is finally having to own up about that country’s pork shortages due to African swine fever (ASF) and trade disputes. The South China Morning Post has reported that Chinese Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua has been assigned to oversee the issue of rising pork prices that could mar October’s

File photo of wheat storage for a flour mill at Yokohama, Japan. (Joel-t/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

Japan trade deal aims to put U.S. farmers on par with TPP

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 8, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The new U.S.-Japan trade deal will provide staged reduction of Japanese tariffs for more than US$2 billion worth of U.S. beef and pork, matching access now granted to the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact countries, a text of the agreement shows. U.S. President Donald Trump presided over a White House signing

Hogs, Livestock

JBS USA to produce pork without ractopamine

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 4, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — JBS USA will remove a growth drug banned by Beijing from its U.S. hog supply, the company said on Friday, accelerating the competition for pork exports as China grapples with a devastating pig disease. The meat packer’s move away from the drug ractopamine, a feed additive, shows how companies are maneuvering

Beef sirloin tips are among the many Ryding-Regency-produced beef products now recalled. (Panainte Ancuta-Georgiana/iStock/Getty Images)

Beef cattle, Livestock

New meat recall prolongs Ryding-Regency shutdown

By GFM Network News, John Greig October 4, 2019

Ryding-Regency Meat Packers remains shut down, making an already tight processing capacity situation event more challenging for Ontario farmers. The Toronto company, along with St. Ann’s Food, announced a recall Tuesday of a long list of its products because of concerns with E. coli O157:H7. More products were added to the recall on Thursday. The

CME November 2019 feeder cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise on cash market strength

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub October 3, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures firmed for the second day in a row on Thursday, with the most-active December live cattle contract holding support near a two-month peak on strong cash prices. “The cash market has been moving up steadily,” said Don Roose, analyst with U.S. Commodities in West Des Moines, Iowa. “The

Italian sausages, cheeses and other traditional foods for sale in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo in December 2016. (Florin1961/iStock/Getty Images)

Markets

U.S. set to widen trade war on EU front

By GFM Network News, Philip Blenkinsop October 2, 2019

London/Brussels/Washington | Reuters — The United States won approval on Wednesday to impose import tariffs on US$7.5 billion worth of European aircraft and agricultural goods over illegal EU subsidies handed to Airbus, threatening to trigger a tit-for-tat transatlantic trade war as the global economy falters. The decision by the World Trade Organization pushes a 15-year

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 25, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Livestock, Markets

U.S., Japan sign limited trade deal

By David Lawder, GFM Network News, Jeff Mason September 25, 2019

New York | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a limited trade deal on Wednesday that cuts tariffs on U.S. farm goods, Japanese machine tools and other products while further staving off the threat of higher U.S. car duties. Trump said the deal would open up Japanese markets

China's pork output could fall by as much as 25 per cent this year.

News

China says pork supply enough for holidays

The assurances come due to the country’s losses in its hog herd due to ASF

By Reuters September 24, 2019

China, the world’s top pork consumer, will secure sufficient supplies of the meat for upcoming holidays, including the Lunar New Year in late January, said an official Sept. 10, as concerns grow over a looming shortage and soaring prices. China’s pig herd has shrunk by a third following a severe outbreak of deadly African swine

A macrophage (immune response) cell in early stages of infection with African swine fever virus, magnified about 1,000x. (Keith Weller photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

South Korea confirms new cases of African swine fever

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 23, 2019

Seoul | Reuters — South Korea has confirmed new cases of African swine fever at hog farms in cities near the capital Seoul after the country’s first outbreak of the deadly virus last week, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. The new case occurred at a pig farm with about 1,800 pigs in the city

Daily Network News

CBOT Weekly: Additional soybean purchases strengthen U.S. soy

Trump, Xi discuss Taiwan and soybeans in call aimed at easing China, U.S. relations

ICE weekly: China, soy complex lift canola prices

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