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

U.S. pork to feel further chill from China tariff threat

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News, Tom Polansek March 23, 2018

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters — China’s threat of steep tariffs on U.S. pork imports knocked down U.S. hog futures prices and shares of producers on Friday, while increasing fears of hard times for farmers already facing weaker demand from the world’s top buyer of the meat. U.S. farmers have worried for months that rising trade tensions

Weather

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

By GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter, Renita D. Young September 7, 2017

Chicago/New York | Reuters — Hurricane Irma sent farmers and food companies scrambling to protect processing facilities, farm fields and animal herds in the south and southeastern parts of the U.S. on Wednesday. Florida sugar and citrus processors rushed to secure rail cars and equipment that could be crushed, blocked or turned into flying projectiles.

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

By GFM Network News, Julie Steenhuysen, Michael Hirtzer April 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans. Routine pig-human organ transplants are years away, but recent scientific advances are breaking down barriers

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock, Weather

Oklahoma wildfires kill thousands of pigs

By GFM Network News, Michael Hirtzer, Renita D. Young March 10, 2017

Reuters — Wildfires devastated a Smithfield Foods hog farm in Laverne, Oklahoma, killing at least several thousand pigs, company and local officials said Friday. The exact number of swine killed in the Oklahoma fire, which began on Monday, was not immediately known. Smithfield did not say how many died in the blaze, but said no

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield Foods to buy Farmer John from Hormel

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 21, 2016

Reuters — Smithfield Foods said it would buy parent of the Farmer John and Saag’s Specialty Meats brands, and farm operations in three U.S. states from Hormel Foods for US$145 million in cash. Smithfield will buy Clougherty Packing as well as hog farm operations under PFFJ, or Pigs for Farmer John, in California, Arizona and

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs rise for third straight session

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters October 31, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures on Monday settled higher for a third consecutive session, with strength from buy stops and firmer wholesale pork values on the final trading day for the month, traders said. Most actively traded December lean hogs closed 1.15 cents/lb. higher at 47.95 cents (all figures US$).

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures rise again

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters October 29, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog contracts landed in positive territory for a second straight day on Friday, lifted by short-covering and technical buying that offset bearish fundamentals, traders said. December lean hogs closed 1.425 cents/lb. higher at 46.8 cents, and February ended 1.675 cents higher at 54 cents (all figures US$).

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets

U.S. livestock: Hog futures stumble as supplies grow

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters October 18, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures on Tuesday slumped for a third consecutive session, weakened by already ample supplies as Smithfield Foods’ East Coast plants return to full operations after being idled by Hurricane Matthew, traders said. Most-actively traded December lean hogs finished down 0.475 cent/lb., to 41.125 cents (all figures

Hogs, Livestock, Weather

Smithfield sees pork operations back to normal Monday

By GFM Network News, Jim Brumm October 17, 2016

Wilmington, N.C. | Reuters — Smithfield Foods expects to resume full production on Monday at its North Carolina meat operations, including the world’s largest pork plant, more than a week after Hurricane Matthew struck the U.S. Southeast and triggered widespread flooding in the state. Operations will get back to normal at Smithfield’s four North Carolina

NASA’s Terra satellite observes Post-Tropical Cyclone Matthew being absorbed by a cold front along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Oct. 9 at 11:45 a.m. ET. (NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team)

Livestock, Weather

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek October 13, 2016

Chicago | Reuters — Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to five million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state’s top environmental official said Wednesday. Donald van der Vaart, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, also told Reuters that some pits that hold hog waste on farms

Daily Network News

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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U.S. pork to feel further chill from China tariff threat

From sugar mills to hog farms, U.S. agriculture braces for Irma

Smithfield makes move on market for pig-human transplants

Oklahoma wildfires kill thousands of pigs

Smithfield Foods to buy Farmer John from Hormel

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs rise for third straight session

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures rise again

U.S. livestock: Hog futures stumble as supplies grow

Smithfield sees pork operations back to normal Monday

Millions of chickens reported dead in Hurricane Matthew floods

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