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Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures shrug off early selling

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago / Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts settled higher on Monday after short-covering and futures’ discounts to late last week’s cash prices offset early-session losses, traders said. August live cattle ended 1.525 cents per lb higher at 112.450 cents, and finished above the 20-day moving average of 112.05 cents. October closed 0.775 cent […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Feds and province fund Maple Leaf bacon plant

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Reading Time: < 1 minute The governments of Canada and Manitoba have announced funding of $500,000 toward an expansion of Maple Leaf Food’s bacon processing plant in Winnipeg. The announcement was made Monday at the plant by federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler. A release said Maple Leaf Food’s investment in the bacon line expansion […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

June U.S. hog herd unexpectedly climbs to record high

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — The U.S. hog herd in the March-May quarter rose two per cent to a record high versus a year ago, according to Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture report, which exceeded most analysts’ forecasts. Farmers added to their herds due to affordable feed, strong U.S. pork export demand and gradual price improvement for their […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock

Olymel plans major expansion for Quebec hog plant

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Reading Time: 2 minutes The meat packing arm of Quebec’s La Coop federee has budgeted $25 million for a major expansion project at its hog slaughter and butchering plant at St-Esprit, Que. Olymel’s expansion plan, announced Tuesday, is expected to bring the plant’s floor space to over 215,000 square feet, up by about 35,000 square feet, and boost its […] Read more
Market opportunities range from five million tonnes per year of pulses to shipments of maple syrup, says Canadian counsellor Parthi Muthukumarasamy. “Canola oil could carve itself an incredible market share in India.”
Guide Business, Hogs, Pulses

Feeding the Indian tiger

Move over China. Food sales to India are set to roar

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Reading Time: 5 minutes “The Indians are crazy for red lentils… potential sales are incredible,” says Lance Walker, head of Lazer Enterprises Inc. in Borden, Sask. Walker was working in a trade show booth as he told me this, one of the representatives of the 23 Canadian businesses that were participating at the 31st Aahar Food Hospitality Trade Fair […] Read more
(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)
Hogs, Livestock, Machinery, Reuters

Canada’s hog farmers suspect U.S. truck washes in PED fight

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters — Canadian farm groups are blasting U.S. truck washes for being too dirty to prevent the spread of a virus that has killed millions of piglets in recent years, exposing a dispute over the effectiveness of such facilities in North American agriculture. The brewing battle over trucks comes as Manitoba, which slaughters more swine […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Cash hog market benefits from barbecue season

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Reading Time: < 1 minute CNS Canada –– The Canadian hog market is gearing up to start bringing home the bacon. Weekly cash hog prices are higher on continued stronger seasonal pork cutout values, with lower supply creating better prices. “Prices generally do increase over the summer,” said Brad Marceniuk, a provincial livestock economist in Saskatoon. “I expect hog prices […] Read more
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Hogs, Livestock

Where have all the hog farmers gone?

They’ve gone to Manitoba, where they’re enjoying some good years in the face of a long list of challenges

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Reading Time: 9 minutes Despite losing nearly 14,000 pig farmers since 1971, Manitoba still produces more pigs than any other province, accounting for just under a third of Canada’s total pork production, and well over half of its exports. For nearly three decades, Manitoba has had a front row seat on the peaks and valleys of Canada’s hog industry. […] Read more
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Features, Hogs

Ending the moratorium on new hog barns?

Manitoba’s 10-year old ban on new barns means almost half of the province’s pigs still get finished in the U.S.

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Reading Time: 2 minutes People aren’t the only thing Manitoba needs more of. A shortage of slaughter pigs continues to be a nagging problem. Maple Leaf’s Brandon facility struggles to keep a second shift operating at capacity, searching for additional hogs to process, while HyLife has gone outside the province to keep its Neepawa plant at capacity. “We are […] Read more
(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Hogs, Livestock

Manitoba hog producers worry as PED continues spread

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Reading Time: 3 minutes CNS Canada — Hog industry officials are increasingly concerned how Manitoba producers will be impacted after another hog farm in southeastern Manitoba confirmed a case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) on Saturday. The province, which until last week hadn’t reported any new on-farm cases since January 2015, logged new cases in the southeast on May […] Read more

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