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U.S. livestock: Hog futures jump on technical buying

Oct. 29, 2018 at 4:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Lean hog futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange gained as much as 1.7 percent on Monday, rising on technical buying and calendar spreading despite weaker prices for hogs in U.S. cash markets, traders said. Live and feeder cattle futures each were narrowly mixed in spread trading […]

Hog industry worldwide getting slaughtered in trade war

Oct. 26, 2018 at 10:05 am CDT

By Ana Mano Hallie Gu Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Live cattle slip from 3-week high in technical setback

Oct. 25, 2018 at 5:57 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs end limit-up on African swine fever jitters

Oct. 24, 2018 at 4:34 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slip from two-week high; hog futures firm

Oct. 23, 2018 at 6:44 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rebound on supply reports

Oct. 22, 2018 at 4:01 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange cattle and hog futures rose on Monday, bouncing back from Friday’s decline as traders digested government reports that showed supplies, while remaining abundant, were less than expected. Concerns about the spread of African swine fever in China added support. The U.S. Agriculture Department on Monday […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. farmers, government fight risk of African swine fever

Oct. 22, 2018 at 10:10 am CDT

Chicago | Reuters – U.S. hog farmers are ramping up safety procedures and leaving animal-feed ingredients imported from China in storage in an attempt to keep out a highly contagious swine disease that is sweeping through Asia and Europe. U.S. government officials said in interviews on Friday they are also […]

By Tom Polansek

CAQ taps businessman as Quebec’s new ag minister

Oct. 19, 2018 at 8:33 pm CDT

Quebec’s new governing party has turned to one of its more experienced MNAs to handle the farm file. Premier Francois Legault on Thursday named Andre Lamontagne, a businessman and former supermarket owner and the MNA for the southwestern riding of Johnson, as his minister of agriculture, fisheries and food, and […]

By GFM Staff

China culls 200,000 pigs due to African swine fever – official

Oct. 19, 2018 at 10:51 am CDT

China | Reuters – China, the world’s top pork producer, has culled 200,000 pigs so far following outbreaks of highly contagious African swine fever in the country, a Chinese animal health official said on Friday. While that represents only a tiny portion of the nearly 700 million pigs slaughtered in China each year […]

By Dominique Patton

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

Oct. 12, 2018 at 6:09 pm CDT

Strasbourg, France | Reuters — France will put up fencing along its border with Belgium to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe’s pig industry. France has been on alert for African swine fever since Belgium detected the virus last month among […]

By Reuters