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• Guide Business, Livestock

  AranLIFE

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• Guide Business, Livestock

  A learning plan in action

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs notch fresh contract highs on export hopes

By GFM Network News 1 day ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rose to contract highs for a third straight session on Friday on hopes for strong demand from China before easing from those peaks on profit-taking and technical selling, traders said. China is expected to be in the market for imported pork as the deadly hog […] Read more

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Livestock, Reuters

VIDEO: Tractor operator saves cow trapped in mud after flood

By GFM Network News 1 day ago

AccuWeather – Dubas Equipment in Nebraska shared this video of the careful efforts a tractor operator used with a front loader to save the life of a cow stuck in the mud after the state’s historic flooding. The video has since gone viral so Dubas has put together a “Nebraska Strong” t-shirt to sell with […] Read more

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Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

China’s pork imports seen doubling in 2019 on swine fever impact

By GFM Network News 2 days ago

Wuzhen, China | Reuters — China’s 2019 pork imports are set to double from last year to two million tonnes, a Rabobank analyst said on Thursday, as African swine fever hits production of the meat in the world’s top hog market. China has reported 113 outbreaks of the contagious disease since last August, though farmers […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up again on China swine fever fears

By GFM Network News 2 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied by their daily trading limits for a second straight day on Thursday on expectations that imports by China would surge as the country’s domestic hog herd is ravaged by a deadly hog disease. All hog contracts posted new contract highs and spot futures reached […] Read more

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Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Swine fever in China poses risks, rewards for Canadian pork

By Phil Franz-Warkentin - MarketsFarm, GFM Network News 3 days ago

MarketsFarm — Sharp losses in China’s hog herd due to African swine fever (ASF) are underpinning the North American pork market and could create export opportunities for Canada — if this country manages to stay disease-free. ASF does not affect humans, but the highly viral disease is nearly 100 per cent fatal for hogs with […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up on China swine virus fears

By GFM Network News 3 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures soared by the company’s daily price limit to new contract highs on Wednesday on increasing worries about the spread of a deadly hog disease in China. Traders expect that China, the world’s biggest hog producer and pork consumer, will need to import more U.S. pork […] Read more

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Guide Business, Livestock

All for one

This innovative group of Alberta feedlot owners is redefining how to win by acting together

By Trevor Bacque 4 days ago

“Let’s get naked.” It’s not a phrase you expect (or probably want) to hear from a group of Alberta feedlot owners. But then again, you may never have met the five individuals who make up the Allied Marketing Group (AMG) in southern Alberta. Getting naked is their cheeky way of telling Country Guide how, metaphorically […] Read more

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Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Piles of pigs: Swine fever outbreaks go unreported in rural China

By GFM Network News 4 days ago

Baoding, China | Reuters — When pigs on the Xinda Husbandry breeding farm in northern China began dying in growing numbers in early January, it looked increasingly likely that the farm had been struck by the much feared African swine fever, an incurable disease that has spread rapidly across the country since last year. But […] Read more

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Livestock, Reuters, Weather

Livestock, pets among victims in U.S. Midwest flooding

By GFM Network News 4 days ago

Reuters — The floods that have devastated large swaths of Nebraska and Iowa since late last week left house pets homeless, inflicted an unknown toll on livestock and led to several daring water rescues of animals from dogs to horses. Rescuers in the Omaha area, where the Platte, Elkhorn and Missouri rivers began spilling over […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle hit contract highs on weather woes

By GFM Network News 4 days ago

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose Tuesday, with the benchmark June contract hitting a high as poor feedlot conditions in portions of the U.S. Plains raised concerns about beef supplies, traders said. Lean hogs closed lower in a profit-taking setback from contract highs set a day earlier. Fat cattle futures […] Read more

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