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Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

By GFM Network News January 4, 2020

The new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), a free trade deal set to replace NAFTA, includes language meant to block any future bids at a trade-disrupting country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The new clause would, in theory, checkmate a move made last summer by some Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives to have a new North […] Read more

CME February 2020 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit down on profit-taking, Middle East tensions

By GFM Network News January 3, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures tumbled by the daily trading limit to a three-week low on Friday as rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East triggered profit-taking, analysts said. Losses hit markets after a U.S. air strike in Iraq killed Iran’s most prominent military commander, rattling traders of products from agricultural futures to […] Read more

CME February 2020 lean hogs with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures touch seven-week high

By GFM Network News January 2, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures kicked off 2020 by approaching seven-week highs in gains driven by increasing expectations for bigger sales of American pork to China. China, the world’s largest pork consumer, needs larger imports to offset a domestic meat shortage caused by an outbreak of the fatal pig disease African swine fever. […] Read more

CME February 2020 lean hogs with Bollinger (20,2) bands, a gauge of market volatility. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise in 2019 as swine fever hits China

By GFM Network News December 31, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures rose in 2019 on hopes China will further increase pork imports as an outbreak of a fatal pig disease ravaged the Chinese herd. Prices eased on Tuesday as traders adjusted positions and booked some profits before the end of the year. The African swine fever disease has reshaped […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rally on China trade optimism

By GFM Network News December 30, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures shot to their highest prices in more than six weeks on Monday on increased optimism over trade with China, the world’s biggest pork consumer. China agreed to import more U.S. farm goods under a Phase 1 trade deal struck this month, providing support for farm markets. Chinese Vice-Premier […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs stumble as supply trumps Chinese demand

By GFM Network News December 27, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures dropped on Friday as pressure from large domestic supplies overshadowed an uptick in pork sales to China. Traders are keeping an eye on Chinese demand because China, the world’s biggest pork consumer, is grappling with a fatal pig disease, African swine fever. Farmers are hoping China will further […] Read more

Pork is displayed for sale at a market in Hanoi, Vietnam in this Feb. 19, 2019 file photo. (Photo: Reuters/Kham)

Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Vietnam’s pork imports more than double amid swine fever outbreak

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 26, 2019

Hanoi | Reuters — Vietnam’s pork imports during the first 11 months of this year more than doubled to 110,000 tonnes, the ministry of finance said on Thursday, as the country’s pig herd has been battered by an outbreak of African swine fever. Since the disease was first detected in February, it has spread to […] Read more

A large male wild boar — which can top 600 pounds — in a rare daytime photo. The animals tend to be nocturnal.

Columns, Livestock

A boaring threat to our meat production

The growing population of wild boar on the prairies threatens livestock production 

By Ieuan Evans December 23, 2019

People who say they have never seen wild boar should watch the ditches at dusk from Florida to Dawson Creek. I have seen them at both locations and many places in between, and more than once avoided a disastrous collision with a wild boar. Wild boar, wild swine, Sas scrofa, Eurasian wild pig or just […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slip ahead of USDA report

By GFM Network News December 23, 2019

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. hog futures eased back on Monday, ahead of a quarterly government report that is expected to show a healthy boost to the size of the U.S. hog herd, traders said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s quarterly Hogs and Pigs report is expected to show the herd increased 2.9 percent in […] Read more

CME February 2020 live cattle with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages. (Barchart)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle placements top estimates

By GFM Network News December 20, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle producers placed more animals than expected into feedlots last month, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Friday, raising expectations for big supplies next summer. The increase in placements will likely pressure futures prices on Monday, brokers said. Meat producers and buyers are keeping a close watch on herd […] Read more

GFM Network News

Australia’s wheat production outlook improves as harvest begins

China imports no U.S. soybeans in September for first time in seven years

Australia’s weather bureau casts doubt on prospects for La Nina

Pigs

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit down on profit-taking, Middle East tensions

U.S. livestock: Hog futures touch seven-week high

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise in 2019 as swine fever hits China

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rally on China trade optimism

U.S. livestock: Hogs stumble as supply trumps Chinese demand

Vietnam’s pork imports more than double amid swine fever outbreak

A boaring threat to our meat production

U.S. livestock: Hog futures slip ahead of USDA report

U.S. livestock: Cattle placements top estimates

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