Livestock Production & Management

CME October 2019 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hog futures set contract highs

By Tom Polansek April 17, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures rallied to new contract highs in deferred months on Wednesday on projections that China will accelerate pork imports in the last half of the year, following an outbreak of an incurable swine disease. China is expected to import more pork to fill a hole in protein supplies left […] Read more

General, Livestock

Alberta ag minister Carlier downed in UCP win

By GFM Staff April 17, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Alberta’s incumbent agriculture minister was among the casualties as Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party defeated Rachel Notley’s New Democrats in Tuesday night’s provincial election. Oneil Carlier, the provincial NDP government’s minister of agriculture and forestry since May 2015 and deputy government house leader since February 2016, was unseated in his riding of Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland […] Read more

CME June 2019 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hogs extend gains on China virus outbreak

By Tom Polansek April 16, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures closed mixed on Tuesday as front-month contracts stumbled in a setback from recent gains, while deferred contracts rose on expectations for increased demand from China due to an outbreak of a fatal hog disease. Gains in the market have been fueled by worries about an epidemic of African […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

China eyes U.S. poultry, pork imports in trade talks

By Chris Prentice, Tom Polansek April 16, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutes Reuters — China would likely lift a ban on U.S. poultry as part of a trade deal and may buy more pork to meet a growing supply deficit, but it is not willing to allow a prohibited growth drug used in roughly half the U.S. hog herd, two sources with knowledge of the negotiations said. […] Read more

Finishers, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Alberta demand drives feeder market higher

By Jerry Klassen April 16, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were $2-$4 higher while calves were relatively unchanged. Stronger fed cattle prices in the deferred positions along with lower new-crop barley values resulted in a firmer tone. We’re in the last half of April and quality cattle will be hard to come by in 30 days; this […] Read more

CME May 2019 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs push higher as herds in China suffer from virus

By Tom Polansek April 15, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures closed mostly higher on Monday on increasing expectations that China will need to import more pork to compensate for hogs killed in an outbreak of an incurable swine disease. The front-month contract, which is thinly traded, set its highest price in about 21 months as the market rose […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs up third straight session

By Julie Ingwersen April 12, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures closed higher on Friday for a third straight session on expectations that an outbreak of African swine fever in China’s hog herd would prompt the Asian country to import more pork, traders said. Traders were still digesting Thursday’s export sales report from the U.S. […] Read more

CME June 2019 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs surge on strong pork sales

By Julie Ingwersen April 11, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures closed higher on Thursday on strong weekly U.S. pork export sales, traders said, including more than 77,000 tonnes sold to China as a fatal hog disease continued to spread in the Asian country. CME live cattle futures followed hogs up but settled off their […] Read more

CME June 2019 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle down as weather fears ease

By Julie Ingwersen April 10, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed lower on Wednesday for a second straight session as worries eased about a blizzard disrupting feedlots in the U.S. Plains, traders said. “The storm system for the most part moved further to the north — more to South Dakota, and missed a lot of […] Read more

An eight-year-old handler walks her best-in-class York Barrow pig on June 4, 2014 at World Pork Expo in Des Moines. (File photo: Reuters/Lane Hickenbottom)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

By Tom Polansek April 10, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. pork industry canceled its annual convention on Wednesday over concerns that international attendees could bring in an incurable hog disease at a time when U.S. farmers are already suffering from trade wars. The decision to scrap the World Pork Expo, held by the National Pork Producers Council in Des […] Read more

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Livestock

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hog futures set contract highs

Alberta ag minister Carlier downed in UCP win

U.S. livestock: Deferred CME hogs extend gains on China virus outbreak

China eyes U.S. poultry, pork imports in trade talks

Klassen: Alberta demand drives feeder market higher

U.S. livestock: CME hogs push higher as herds in China suffer from virus

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs up third straight session

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs surge on strong pork sales

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle down as weather fears ease

World Pork Expo cancelled over swine fever fears

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