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Canadian Feed Advantage Returns

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Canadian hog farmers look to return to profitability later this year, slowing the pace of herd downsizing as high hog prices outweigh the negative effects of a surging Canadian dollar, industry analysts said Jan. 20. Hog farmers have suffered from several mostly unprofitable years because of high feed costs, a strong dollar and the United
Hogs, Livestock

Pork Seminar Offers Tips For Success

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The big market factors may be largely beyond their control, but pork producers can apply fresh thinking to build a stronger economic future. New precision- farming approaches, using advocacy more effectively and dramatically modifying financing approaches are all key options, say speakers at the Banff Pork Seminar. The numbers tell the story of an industry
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U.S. Hog Data Shows Producers Not Expanding

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The latest U.S. Agriculture Department data shows the smallest Dec. 1 U.S. hog herd in four years, indicating that U.S. hog producers pocketed profits from this year’s high hog prices rather than investing them in herd expansion. Worries about high feed grain prices likely thwarted expansion, analysts said. Corn prices are above $6 per bushel,
Grain Markets, Livestock

U.S. Fed Cattle Supply At Three-Year High

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The U.S. feedlot cattle supply on Dec. 1 was the largest for that date in three years as profitable cattle prices and poor pastures had producers rushing young cattle into feedlots rather than into breeding herds, analysts said Dec. 17. The U.S. Agriculture Department said there were 11.609 million cattle in feedlots on Dec. 1,
Hogs, Livestock

U.S. Pork Supplies Swell As High Prices Slow Sales

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U.S. pork supplies rose 13 per cent in October and posted the largest percentage increase from September in nine years as record-high prices slowed retail sales and increased pork production forced more pork into storage. The increase reported by the U.S. Agriculture Department on Nov. 22 was far more than some analysts had anticipated. “I
Livestock, Oilseeds, Other livestock

Smaller U.S. Cattle And Hog Herds

U.S. cattle and hog producers will likely reduce herds now that it appears there will be even less corn and soybean meal for feed, analysts said. Chicken producers, who have been rapidly expanding flocks, may slow that process now that higher-priced corn and soybean meal appear to be here to stay, analysts said. “Feed costs
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Fears Of Resurging U.S. Protectionism Downplayed

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Republican gains in the United States’ recent midterm elections may not be as negative for Canada-U. S. trade as some fear, an American industry analyst says. Historically, Republicans are friendlier to free trade than Democrats. That will likely continue, despite the prevailing recession, said Ron Plain, a University of Missouri livestock-marketing economist. “Our expectation is
Hogs, Livestock

U. S. Hog Herd Stays Small

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USDA’s quarterly Hogs and Pigs Report Oct. 1 put the U. S. hog herd as of Sept. 1 at 64.991 million head, or 97.4 per cent of last year. That is the smallest September 1 hog herd since 2006. However, the smaller herd was expected as analysts, on average, had estimated it at 97.2 per
Crops

Are U. S. Regulators Dropping The Ball On Biocrops?

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“Science is not being considered in policy setting and deregulation. This research is important. We need to be vigilant.” – ROBERT KREMER Robert Kremer, a U. S. government microbiologist who studies Midwestern farm soil, has spent two decades analyzing the rich dirt that yields billions of bushels of food each year and helps the United

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