Insights and Stories on Hogs

More Manitoba hogs turn up with PED

Apr. 25, 2014 at 9:15 pm CDT

Another small group of Manitoba hogs has tested positive off-farm for the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv), this time at an unnamed “high-traffic site” in the province’s livestock-intensive southeast. The office of the provincial chief veterinary officer (CVO) reported Friday that the pigs in this case had been transported from […]

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle futures climb before USDA report

Apr. 25, 2014 at 3:22 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME feeder cattle hit new high as corn prices slip

Apr. 24, 2014 at 5:11 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Fund buying pushes CME hogs two per cent higher

Apr. 23, 2014 at 8:17 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Solid beef demand drives CME live cattle higher

Apr. 22, 2014 at 3:57 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures sink two per cent with sagging cash prices

Apr. 21, 2014 at 3:55 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures tumbled two per cent on Monday, pressured by lower prices for market-ready or cash hogs, traders said. The morning’s average of hogs in the eastern Midwest dropped $1.02 per hundredweight (cwt) from Friday to $110.56, according to the U.S. Department of […]

By Theopolis Waters

Sask. sets up pre-emptive PEDv response fund

Apr. 20, 2014 at 1:19 am CDT

Saskatchewan and its hog industry are setting up a contingency fund against the day porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) arrives in the province. The federal and Saskatchewan governments on Thursday announced $200,000, to be matched by industry association Sask Pork, to offset “costs related to disease containment strategies, welfare issues, enhanced […]

By Staff

Maple Leaf’s Hamilton wiener plant now closed

Apr. 20, 2014 at 12:30 am CDT

A wiener processing plant on Maple Leaf Foods’ list of six further-processing facilities tapped for closure in the company’s 2011 “value creation” plan has officially shut its doors. The Toronto meat processing company on Thursday announced its plant on Brockley Road in Hamilton has closed and its production — plus […]

By Staff

USDA to require reporting of PEDv, SDCV

Apr. 19, 2014 at 3:07 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters –– In an expected move, the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced new measures to combat the spread of diseases such as porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in the U.S. pig population. While PED is not considered a reportable disease according to international standards, USDA will now […]

By Ros Krasny

U.S. livestock: CME hog futures climb, live cattle fall before holiday

Apr. 17, 2014 at 6:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Thursday finished higher on fund buying and short-covering ahead of the Easter holiday, traders said. CME will be closed on Friday in observance of the Good Friday holiday. Some investors bought the May and June contracts in anticipation of a […]

By Theopolis Waters