Insights and Stories on Hogs

West’s hog farmers urged to insist trailers cleaned in Canada

Apr. 29, 2016 at 5:32 pm CDT

Hog industry officials in Western Canada want hog producers to insist that livestock trailers coming to their farms be washed at certified Canadian cleaning facilities — even if the trailers were just cleaned on the U.S. side of the border. The recommendation comes as a federally-approved trailer-wash pilot project, credited with helping […]

Pork prices gain on seasonal demand, tighter numbers

Apr. 25, 2016 at 12:26 pm CDT

By Jade Markus

Russian farming firm to test investor appetite

Apr. 21, 2016 at 6:37 pm CDT

By Olga Popova

U.S. to revoke pig drug approval over cancer risk concern

Apr. 8, 2016 at 2:15 pm CDT

By toni-clarke

U.S. hog herd ekes out new high as PED impact ebbs

Mar. 28, 2016 at 6:05 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures jump on fund buying, USDA report

Mar. 28, 2016 at 4:23 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures closed higher on Monday, driven by short-covering and fund buying after contracts broke through technical resistance levels, traders said. They said last Friday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture quarterly hog report stirred additional deferred-month buying. The survey showed modest U.S. herd […]

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle snaps back in anticipation of cash prices

Mar. 4, 2016 at 4:55 pm CST

Chicago/Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle contracts rose on Friday, paring recent losses as investors pulled futures closer in line with expectations for cash prices later on Friday, traders said. April closed 0.900 cent per lb higher at 136.350 cents, and June ended up 0.850 cent to 126.475. “We’re […]

By Theopolis Waters

Maple Leaf profit beats as margins improve

Mar. 1, 2016 at 6:46 pm CST

Reuters — Canadian pork processor Maple Leaf Foods posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit as margins in its prepared meats business improved. Adjusted operating profit in the meat products group, which includes brands such as Schneiders and the company’s namesake Maple Leaf brand, was $54.6 million, compared with a year-ago loss […]

By Reuters

Coop Federee to offer Olymel stake

Feb. 25, 2016 at 3:50 pm CST

Reuters — Quebec-based La Coop Federee, one of Canada’s biggest farmer co-operatives, is offering for sale up to 49 per cent of pork processor Olymel, to help fund expansion in Western Canada, CEO Gaetan Desroches said in an interview. La Co-op would retain control of Olymel, which along with Maple […]

By Rod Nickel

Pork market looks to improve by spring

Feb. 23, 2016 at 4:17 pm CST

CNS Canada — Canadian pork prices are feeling a modest bump upward as healthy U.S. exports clean up some excess North American pork supplies. Canadian slaughter-weight prices hit their lows in November and December — and since then, they have increased about 30 per cent, according to Brad Marceniuk, a […]

By Dave Sims