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Small Hog Farmers Blamed For Destabilizing China Market

July 8, 2010

Small hog farmers have helped destabilize pork prices and played havoc with feed demand forecasts, according to the chairman of China’s top corn buyer New Hope Group. “Individual farmers, small in scale, have no plans in their breeding scale. Whenever the prices are good, they increase breeding and when prices are lower, they reduce pig

Hogs, News

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, News

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

Hogs, Opinion

Hog Loan Aid No-Win For Ottawa

By Roberta Rampton August 13, 2009

Canada’s government will set off squeals of protests no matter how it decides to handle a plea for aid from its desperate hog farmers. If Ottawa fails to come through on the $800-million loan request, Canada stands to lose a large chunk of its once-lucrative hog sector to bankruptcy and closures. But aid for Canuck

Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Industry Struggling

By Bob Burgdorfer July 2, 2009

Summer is usually a profitable time for America’s hog producers but this year swine flu, recession and high feed prices have even the largest farmers operating deep in the red and some smaller ones on the brink of bankruptcy. Before things get better, the weakest are expected to fail and even those who survive will

Hogs, Opinion

Letters – for Jun. 18, 2009

June 18, 2009

Fresh air good for animals too The article “Berkshire freerange hogs” by Daniel Winters Manitoba Co-operator May 28, brought back some nice memories. After growing up on a farm in the 1940s, I can relate to what the McDonalds are accomplishing. It’s been quite awhile since I first attended school, yet I remember the teacher

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield’s Outlook Improves

By Bob Burgdorfer May 21, 2009

Smithfield Foods Inc. said May 13 it should meet its fiscal 2009 fourth-quarter debt covenants and appears to be on track to comply with fiscal 2010 covenants. It also said pork exports are recovering after being disrupted recently when countries banned the meat as a precaution against the H1N1 strain of flu. Speaking at the

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

Livestock, News

Hot, Dry, Polluted

By Daniel Winters March 26, 2009

“We are nearing the end of the downswing. It is inconceivable that prices will continue to go down indefinitely when production is dropping at the rate it is worldwide” – TED BILYEA The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but in the meantime, Manitoba’s grain and livestock farmers will be doing a

Beef cattle, News

National Beef To Go It Alone As JBS Bid Abandoned

By Bob Burgdorfer March 5, 2009

National Beef Packing Co. intends to operate as an independent company now that Brazilian beef company JBS SA has abandoned its attempt to buy the No. 4 U. S. beef producer, National Beef’s chairman told Reuters Feb. 20. While disappointed the deal was cancelled, National Beef chairman Steve Hunt said the company would move forward

Daily Network News

Grocery code of conduct takes full effect

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures surge as second screwworm case announced

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall on competition with Brazilian exports

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