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Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

New Game, New Rules

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Watching Big Pork and Big Beef respond to proposed USDA rules to “clarify conduct that violates the P&S (Packers and Stockyards) Act” is like watching Wall Street bankers: they find it impossible to pull their hands out of your pockets long enough to pull themselves out of the mess they’ve made. That’s a good explanation
Cereals, Opinion

U. S. Feed Rations Could Shift To Wheat

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U. S. livestock producers may begin injecting more wheat into their feed after its price premium to corn hit its lowest level in three years and a government report revealed a radically tighter corn supply. Wheat is typically a costly feed alternative to corn, but the spread between the two narrowed to as little as
Cereals, Grain Markets

U. S. Farmers Can’t Meet Booming Corn Demands

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Exporters, livestock feeders and ethanol makers are going through the U. S. corn stockpile faster than farmers can grow the crops, the government said July 9. Despite record crops in two of the past three years and another record within reach this year, the USDA estimated the corn carry-over will shrink to the lowest level
Livestock

USDA Jolts Markets With Corn Numbers

The U. S. government roiled the grain markets June 30 with a sharp cut in corn acres and much tighter June 1 stockpiles, sending corn prices sharply higher and providing a short-term floor for the beaten-down market. Despite predictions for a modest increase in acres planted to corn this year, the U. S. Agriculture Department’s
Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

New USDA Numbers Surprise Markets

For three-times-daily market reports from Resource News International, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca. Canola futures on the ICE Futures Canada trading platform continued to trek higher during the week ended July 2. Steady domestic crusher demand, combined with weather worries across the Canadian Prairies, helped to stimulate the price advances. The continued refusal
Livestock

Vilsack Promises To Hear Concerns Of Dairy Farmers

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U. S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told struggling U. S. dairy producers on June 25 the government is looking to expand marketing opportunities for the industry, which has seen its ranks nearly cut in half during the last decade. Vilsack, speaking at the third of five “town hall” events on anti-trust issues in agriculture that
Cereals, Crops, Forages, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Jul. 1, 2010

Out of time: Wet conditions limited planting by Western Canadian farmers this spring to only 82 per cent of the original planned acreage, the Canadian Wheat Board said June 21. The final crop insurance deadlines passed on June 20. Farmers are expected to plant their smallest acreage of wheat, durum and barley in decades and
Beef cattle, Livestock, Opinion

Beef Checkoff To NCBA: Drop Dead

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“NCBA just doesn’t get it.” In a toughly worded statement June 22, the executive committee of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the group created by Congress to collect and oversee the $1-per-head beef checkoff, served notice that it strongly backed the independence of the Federation of State Beef Councils in the ongoing debate over the checkoff’s
Opinion

Not Such A Bad Idea

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR It seems that in U. S. households, there aren’t many battles over who gets the legs and thighs. Actually, the real problem seems to be that the fast-food chains don’t want their chicken fingers and McNuggets to be too tasty, or at least anything other than snow white. Hence the 90.59
Grain Markets, Poultry

USDA Unveils New Rules For Livestock Sales

WASHINGTON/REUTERS U. S. cattle, hog and poultry producers will gain additional protection against unfair sales practices in a livestock-marketing rule unveiled June 18 by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Among other steps, the rule would bar meat packers from offering better prices to large feeders than smaller operators without good reason and give poultry producers more

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