Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures retreated on Tuesday, pressured by technical selling and by anticipation of softer cash prices in the near term, traders and analysts said. The CME February live cattle contract fell below the 20-day moving average, triggering some technical selling, a trader said. There was talk of […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle end lower, hogs firm
Wendy’s calls for progress reports on stall-free pork
Canadian and U.S. pork suppliers feeding the Wendy’s restaurant chain now must file quarterly progress reports on how much of their pork is produced without the use of gestation stalls. The Ohio-based burger chain, which includes about 370 Canadian outlets among about 6,600 worldwide, announced in 2007 it would give preferential buying to pork suppliers […] Read more
U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures drop as beef prices plunge
Hog futures mostly up on speculative buying Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures posted modest losses on Friday, but were up from session lows, dragged by retreating wholesale beef prices, traders and analysts said. The afternoon’s wholesale choice beef price, or cutout, was $223.49 per hundredweight (cwt), $7.26 lower than on Thursday, […] Read more
Tyson says pig virus to cut pork supply by two to four per cent
Reuters — Tyson Foods, the largest U.S. meat processor, said Friday it expects pork supplies to drop two to four per cent this fiscal year, raising wholesale prices, as a deadly pig virus spreads through the U.S. hog belt. Heavier hogs will offset some of the loss in headcount, Jim Lochner, Tyson’s chief operating officer, […] Read more
U.S. pig virus cases see biggest weekly rise since discovery
Reuters — Confirmed cases of a deadly pig virus spreading across the U.S. Hog Belt jumped by 215 to its highest weekly increase since it was discovered in the country in April 2013, according to USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network. NAHLN announced the rise in cases of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) on Wednesday. […] Read more
Fourth Ont. hog farm hit by diarrhea virus, official says
Reuters — The piglet-killing porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has spread to a fourth farm in the Ontario, the provincial government said Wednesday, despite the hog industry’s efforts to stop it by disinfecting delivery trucks and clothing used on farms. The virus has killed more than one million piglets in the U.S. but it has so far […] Read more
Ont. hog industry backed for added biosecurity measures
Ontario hog producers can expect new public funding to help step up biosecurity at “critical points,” following the arrival of the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) in the province on at least two farms. The provincial government on Tuesday pledged $2 million for Ontario Pork to back “industry-wide investments to improve biosecurity measures at critical […] Read more
No changes seen to COOL in new U.S. Farm Bill
Canadian livestock groups’ hopes for change in the U.S. government’s mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) laws on meat now return to the World Trade Organization (WTO), as no such changes have shown up in the U.S. Congress’ proposed new Farm Bill. U.S. Senate and House negotiators on Monday announced a bipartisan deal on a new five-year […] Read more
PED virus hits second SW Ont. hog farm
Now also suspected on third farm; industry launches task force “The reality has changed” for Ontario’s hog industry with a second, and possibly third, case of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus now found in the Chatham-Kent area. “Since the virus is highly contagious, its presence in Canada is not unexpected and more cases are expected in […] Read more
Olymel to run Coop federee’s hog farmer services
Quebec’s biggest agrifood company plans to put its services for hog farmers — such as hog herd management, animal welfare and meat quality and its swine genetics arm — under the wing of its meat packing business. La Coop federee, Quebec’s federation of ag co-operatives, announced Friday it will make those operations, including those of […] Read more