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(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

U.S. livestock: Hog futures ease on big supplies, spreading

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News September 18, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures were mostly lower on Monday, pressured by bear-spreading and big U.S. supplies that continued to weigh on cash markets, traders said. The front-month October hogs contract notched the biggest declines, easing 0.975 cent, or about 1.7 per cent, to settle at 60 cents/lb. (all figures […] Read more

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures surge on technical bounce

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News September 15, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures surged more than three per cent on Friday while live cattle gained about one per cent, lifted by chart-based and investment fund buying, traders and analysts said. Hog futures had tumbled to a roughly 11-month low on Wednesday, before stabilizing on Thursday and then rising […] Read more

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

Fruit/Vegetables, Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

Mexico considers pork in response to NAFTA produce proposal

By GFM Network News September 15, 2017

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexican negotiators are working on a response to informal U.S. proposals to include protections for fresh produce in the re-negotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), two people briefed on the proposals said. U.S., Canadian and Mexican delegations finished a second round of talks last week to renegotiate […] Read more

General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. wants NAFTA five-year sunset provision

By GFM Network News September 14, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday that the United States was seeking to add a five-year sunset provision to the North American Free Trade Agreement to provide a regular, “systematic re-examination” of the trade pact. Ross told a forum hosted by Politico that both he and U.S. Trade Representative Robert […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Prairie pork industry leader Bill Vaags, 82

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 14, 2017

UPDATED, Sept. 15 — A memorial service is planned for Sept. 19 in Winnipeg for a prominent Prairie figure in the business of promoting and securing export markets for Canadian pork. Bill Vaags, a pork producer at Dugald, Man. who led the Canadian Pork Council from 1985 to 1990 and chaired Canada Pork International from […] Read more

Livestock, Reuters

Brazil police detain JBS CEO

By GFM Network News September 13, 2017

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Brazil’s federal police on Wednesday detained the chief executive of JBS SA, the world’s No. 1 meatpacker, saying he used insider information to avoid hefty losses related to a plea bargain he signed earlier this year. Wesley Batista, who has been at the helm of JBS since 2011, was detained […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall to 11-month low

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News September 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures tumbled to an 11-month low in a bear-spreading selloff linked to big U.S. hog supplies and declines in cash markets, traders said. Live cattle futures also eased on spreading and worries beef packers might be hesitant to pay higher prices for cattle when supplies were […] Read more

Columns, Hart Attacks

Food guide isn’t keen on red meat

Hart Attacks: The problem isn’t that I don’t know about good food... the problem is me

By Lee Hart September 12, 2017

Boy, I can’t wait for the revised version of the Canada Food Guide to hit the store shelves so I can start eating properly. Health Canada is proposing changes to the food guide steering people away from red meat and more towards “alternative” proteins such as plant-based proteins — your peas, beans, lentils, chickpeas, or […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs narrowly mixed on pre-USDA consolidation

By Michael Hirtzer, GFM Network News September 12, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle and lean hog futures were flat to narrowly mixed on Monday as investors consolidated positions ahead of a government livestock and crop report due on Tuesday, traders and analysts said. Some live cattle contracts eked out small gains following modestly higher sales in U.S. Plains cash […] Read more

Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Funds, short-covering extend CME live cattle gains

By GFM Network News September 8, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Friday closed higher for a third day in a row, led by fund buying and investors who covered previously short positions, said traders. December led advances after funds in CME’s livestock markets that track the Standard + Poor’s Goldman Sachs Commodity Index bought that […] Read more

GFM Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Pigs

U.S. livestock: Hog futures ease on big supplies, spreading

U.S. livestock: Hog futures surge on technical bounce

Mexico considers pork in response to NAFTA produce proposal

U.S. wants NAFTA five-year sunset provision

Prairie pork industry leader Bill Vaags, 82

Brazil police detain JBS CEO

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall to 11-month low

Food guide isn’t keen on red meat

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs narrowly mixed on pre-USDA consolidation

U.S. livestock: Funds, short-covering extend CME live cattle gains

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