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U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit new high on supply fears, PEDv

By GFM Network News March 13, 2014

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Thursday hit a new high, with April closing up the three-cent limit, as prices for slaughter-ready hogs climbed fueled by tight supplies in part pegged to a deadly pig virus, traders said. The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), which is fatal to piglets has been […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures rise on hopes for cash prices

By GFM Network News March 12, 2014

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle rose on Wednesday, driven by anticipation of higher cash prices this week, traders said. For now, there is more confidence in better prices for cash cattle given record-high beef values and positive packer margins, said R.J. O’Brien floor manager Jim Brooks. Cash cattle bids in Texas […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

Hog cash prices nearing record highs

By GFM Network News March 11, 2014

CNS Canada –– Cash prices for Canadian hogs are nearing record levels due to concerns about reduced North American supplies because of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) that’s plagued U.S. farmers and a handful in Canada this winter. Futures prices for hogs reached record levels in the U.S. in early March, with prices rallying […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Markets, Reuters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs peak at new high in volatile action

By GFM Network News March 11, 2014

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Tuesday reached a new high for a second straight session as buying pegged to a deadly pig virus offset profit-taking, traders said. The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus sweeping across U.S. hog farms is already hurting production in parts of the Midwest. The virus is expected […] Read more

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PEDv-related supply woes drive U.S. hogs up 6.5 per cent

By GFM Network News March 8, 2014

Chicago | Reuters — Hog futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange surged 6.5 per cent this week on tightening U.S. supplies as a deadly pig virus sweeps the country, traders and industry sources said on Friday. CME lean hog futures finished the week at 113.75 cents per pound, down from a record high of 114.675 […] Read more

(Manitoba Co-operator file photo by Laura Rance)

Hogs, Livestock

Hog code calls for group sow housing, pain control for piglets

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 6, 2014

Animal welfare advocates call Canada’s new code of practice for the care and handling of pigs — which commits farmers who follow it to adopt group housing for sows in any new barns built after July this year — a “watershed moment” for the industry. The revised code, replacing the previous version released in 1993, […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

Alta. biosecurity funding boosted under PED pressure

By Jennifer Blair, GFM Network News March 5, 2014

Alberta Farmer Express — As Alberta’s hog industry braces for the seemingly inevitable arrival of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), the province has announced an early opening to a program to boost on-farm biosecurity. “Even though we do have some connections with feed now, biosecurity is still our best tool in preventing the spread of PED,” said […] Read more

CFIA’s tests “could not demonstrate” that processed feed pellets made with PED-infected hog plasma are capable of causing PED in hogs. (Photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 4, 2014

Federal lab tests still can’t rule piglet feed in or out as a possible source of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Monday announced its findings after testing an Ontario company’s hog feed pellets containing U.S.-origin blood plasma from PEDv-infected hogs as an ingredient. [Related story] While […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 4, 2014

Saskatchewan has now officially had a close encounter of the third kind with the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) — but not in hogs. Saskatchewan’s chief veterinary officer Dr. Betty Althouse on Friday reported a confirmed “positive environmental sample” of both PEDv and transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) in a livestock trailer returning to the province from […] Read more

Hogs, Livestock

PEDv arrives in North Dakota

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News February 28, 2014

North Dakota has become the seventh U.S./Canadian border state with a case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in its hog herd. The lone case so far was confirmed this week on a hog farm in the eastern part of the state, North Dakota State University said Thursday. As of Sunday, before North Dakota’s confirmation, the […] Read more

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U.S. livestock: CME hogs hit new high on supply fears, PEDv

U.S. livestock: Live cattle futures rise on hopes for cash prices

Hog cash prices nearing record highs

U.S. livestock: CME hogs peak at new high in volatile action

PEDv-related supply woes drive U.S. hogs up 6.5 per cent

Hog code calls for group sow housing, pain control for piglets

Alta. biosecurity funding boosted under PED pressure

PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

PEDv arrives in Sask. on soiled boots, not yet in hogs

PEDv arrives in North Dakota

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