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

By Julie Ingwersen, GFM Network News March 20, 2019

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

A section of road is underwater stranding a vehicle after flooding near Waterloo, Neb. on March 18, 2019. (Handout photo by Ryan Hignight/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, via Reuters)

General, Reuters, Weather

U.S. Midwest’s catastrophic floods cause widespread damage

By GFM Network News March 19, 2019

Brownville, Neb. | Reuters — Severe flooding caused by rainfall and melting snow devastated farms and towns in Nebraska and Iowa on Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, with waters yet to crest in parts of the region for several days. The floods inundated stretches […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise on pork export optimism

By Julie Ingwersen, GFM Network News March 18, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. front-month hog futures surged on Monday, extending last week’s advances on expectations of additional export sales to China, where African swine fever has decimated the world’s largest hog herd, traders said. “We had that huge sale of pork to China last week, and the market is anticipating more sales,” said […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Alberta confirms fourth PED outbreak

By GFM Network News March 18, 2019

Alberta took another punch last week in its fight with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), having confirmed the province’s fourth on-farm case of the disease. Officials with the provincial ag department and Alberta Pork haven’t said where the fourth case is located, nor how far it is from the three southern Alberta properties where outbreaks in […] Read more

Workers sort cuts of fresh pork in a processing plant of pork producer WH Group in Zhengzhou in China’s Henan province in this file photo, taken through glass, from Nov. 24, 2017. (File photo: Reuters/Dominique Patton)

Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. seizes pork from China on swine fever concerns

By Reuters, GFM Network News March 18, 2019

Washington | Reuters — U.S. border agents have seized around one million pounds of pork from China, a spokesman for the agency said on Friday, over suspicions that it might contain African swine flu disease which has hit Chinese pork output. Federal agents have seized the supplies over the past week in New York. “The […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up as swine fever cuts Chinese herd

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News March 15, 2019

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. hog futures rallied to a five-month high on Friday, closing at their daily trading limit on improving export prospects due to a sharp reduction in China’s domestic supplies, traders said. China’s pig herd slid 16.6 per cent in February from the previous year, as African swine fever swept the country, […] Read more

Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, shown here March 14, 2019 at the Montreal-Trudeau airport with Canadian border services officers and detector dogs, announced new funding to expand Canada’s detector dog corps. (CNW Group/CFIA)

Hogs, Livestock

Canada to boost airport detector dog corps

By GFM Network News March 15, 2019

With African swine fever top of mind, the federal government plans to more than double the total number of detector dog teams at Canada’s airports within five years. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, speaking in Montreal Thursday, announced new funding of up to $31 million over five years to add 24 Food, Plant, and Animal Detector […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rally on improving export prospects

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News March 15, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures jumped 3.5 per cent on Thursday, supported by signs that exports could pick up due to rising Chinese demand, traders said. China bought 23,846 tonnes of U.S. pork last week, its biggest purchase in nearly two years, U.S. Department of Agriculture data showed on Thursday. Chinese hog prices […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures mixed after hitting three-month high

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News March 13, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures were mixed on Wednesday, with the front-month contract easing on profit-taking after rallying to a three-month high while deferred contracts rose on expectations of tight supplies, traders said. Live cattle contracts were firm following two straight days of declines with concerns about a massive U.S. storm system […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hogs extend win streak on short-covering, firm cash

By Mark Weinraub, GFM Network News March 12, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures rallied to two-month high on Tuesday, their third straight day of gains, as investors scrambled to cover shorts amid concerns about supplies and signs of cash market strength, traders said. Live cattle futures were weaker, with abundant supplies continuing to weigh on the market. Concerns about African […] Read more

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

U.S. Midwest’s catastrophic floods cause widespread damage

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise on pork export optimism

Alberta confirms fourth PED outbreak

U.S. seizes pork from China on swine fever concerns

U.S. livestock: Hogs limit up as swine fever cuts Chinese herd

Canada to boost airport detector dog corps

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rally on improving export prospects

U.S. livestock: Hog futures mixed after hitting three-month high

U.S. livestock: Hogs extend win streak on short-covering, firm cash

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