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U.S. livestock: Cash prices again spike CME hogs to new high

Mar. 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures marked a new high for a third straight session as tight supplies continued to drive up prices for market-ready hogs, traders said on Monday. Packers are finding it hard to buy hogs as the deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) reduces […]

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

Mar. 13, 2014 at 3:04 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

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

Mar. 12, 2014 at 4:29 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

Hog cash prices nearing record highs

Mar. 11, 2014 at 5:15 pm CDT

By Terryn Shiells

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

Mar. 11, 2014 at 4:03 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

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

Mar. 8, 2014 at 9:35 am CST

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 […]

By Theopolis Waters

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

Mar. 6, 2014 at 3:40 pm CST

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 […]

By Staff

Alta. biosecurity funding boosted under PED pressure

Mar. 5, 2014 at 5:34 am CST

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 […]

By Jennifer Blair

PEDv infectiveness not confirmed in piglet feed: CFIA

Mar. 4, 2014 at 11:50 am CST

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 […]

By Staff

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

Mar. 4, 2014 at 10:40 am CST

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 […]

By Staff