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Strong foreign demand boosts North American hog markets

Reading Time: < 1 minute MarketsFarm — While the volume of hogs at North American slaughter markets have kept packing plants near capacity in recent weeks, strong foreign export demand has kept pork values high. “We expect pork values to move higher, due to the shortness of production in China,” said Brad Marceniuk, a Saskatchewan provincial livestock economist in Saskatoon. […] Read more

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Vietnam considers CPTPP-level tariff cuts on U.S. ag products

By Reuters 3 days ago

Reading Time: 2 minutes Hanoi | Reuters — Vietnam is considering cutting tariffs on several U.S. products, the ministry of finance said in a statement on Monday, after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross urged Vietnam to reduce its trade surplus during a visit to Hanoi last month. Tariffs on chicken and processed chicken meat, almonds, grapes, wheat, pork and […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall after weak export sales report

By Mark Weinraub December 5, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — CME Group hog futures eased on Thursday, pressured by a bearish pork export sales report, traders said. Cattle contracts were mixed, with live cattle rising on technical buying while feeder cattle eased. The U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday morning said that weekly export sales of pork came in at a four-week […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs recover from two-month low

By Tom Polansek November 29, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures ended higher on Friday in a turnaround from a decline earlier in the session to their lowest price since early September. Prices bounced back as pork producers are hoping that China will ramp up buying from the U.S. as it grapples with a fatal pig disease, African […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

F. Menard’s pork industry assets cleared for sale

By Dave Bedard November 28, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Antitrust regulators have cleared the path for La Coop federee to take up a significantly larger, vertically integrated share of its home province’s pork packing, feed milling and hog production sectors. The agribusiness co-operative announced Thursday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture arms have “received the green light” from the federal Competition Bureau to buy the […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs drop on large supply, trade war jitters

By Tom Polansek November 13, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. livestock futures dropped on Wednesday, with lean hogs stumbling under pressure from large supplies in a turnaround from a rally a session earlier. Fresh uncertainty over U.S.-China trade relations added pressure to the hog market, analysts said. Traders and meat producers are hoping for further U.S. pork sales to China, […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Brazil gets approval for 13 meatpacking plants for China exports

By Ana Mano November 12, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sao Paulo | Brazil | Reuters – Chinese authorities approved new Brazilian meat exporting plants on Tuesday, according to the Brazilian agriculture ministry, a highly anticipated move as the two nations continue to strengthen trade ties. The approvals come as China seeks to increase meat imports to compensate for the death of around half of […] Read more

Hogs, Reuters

China reshapes global meat markets as swine fever rages

By Nigel Hunt November 8, 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutes London | Beijing | Reuters – China is scouring the world for meat to replace the millions of pigs killed by African swine fever (ASF), boosting prices, business and profits for European and South American meatpackers as it re-shapes global markets for pork, beef and chicken. The European Union, the world’s second largest pork producer […] Read more

Hogs, Reuters

China’s pork output to fall by at least 20 percent in 2019: FAO

By Sybille De La Hamaide November 7, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute Paris | Reuters – African swine fever (ASF) will cut pork output in China, the world’s largest producer, by at least 20 percent in 2019, the United Nations’ food agency said on Thursday, doubling the decline it had expected six months ago. The disease has slashed China’s hog herd since August 2018, pushing Chinese pork […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

China to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork

By Kelsey Johnson November 5, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes Reuters – China will resume imports of Canadian beef and pork, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, some four months after Beijing blocked shipments amid an escalating diplomatic feud between the two countries. “Good news for Canadian farmers today: Canadian pork and beef exports to China will resume,” Trudeau tweeted. The Chinese embassy in […] Read more

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Strong foreign demand boosts North American hog markets

Vietnam considers CPTPP-level tariff cuts on U.S. ag products

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall after weak export sales report

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs recover from two-month low

F. Menard’s pork industry assets cleared for sale

U.S. livestock: Hogs drop on large supply, trade war jitters

Brazil gets approval for 13 meatpacking plants for China exports

China reshapes global meat markets as swine fever rages

China’s pork output to fall by at least 20 percent in 2019: FAO

China to resume imports of Canadian beef and pork

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