Insights and Stories on Hogs

China arrests over 110 people for selling contaminated pork

Jan. 12, 2015 at 4:23 pm CST

Shanghai | Reuters — China has arrested more than 110 people suspected of selling pork from pigs that died from disease, and confiscated more than 1,000 tonnes of contaminated pork in its latest crackdown on food safety violations. The ministry of public security said Sunday the people were part of […]

U.S. livestock: CME hogs slump to two-year low as funds roll positions

Jan. 12, 2015 at 3:52 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: More fund sales drop CME live cattle limit-down

Jan. 9, 2015 at 6:04 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

U.S. livestock: CME hogs near two-year low in active fund selloff

Jan. 8, 2015 at 5:22 pm CST

By Theopolis Waters

Nursery barn Quebec’s sixth case of PED

Jan. 8, 2015 at 3:23 pm CST

By Staff

Two more Que. hog operations confirmed with PED

Jan. 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

Two more hog operations in Quebec’s Monteregie — a nursery operation and a finishing barn — have been confirmed infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). Quebec’s provincial swine health team (EQSP) announced Wednesday that the two new cases — both in the St-Denis-sur-Richelieu area, about 25 km northwest of St-Hyacinthe […]

By Staff

U.S. livestock: CME hogs rally in anticipation of cash price rebound

Jan. 7, 2015 at 2:42 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs turned higher Wednesday after initial selling, benefiting from sentiment that cash prices are about to bottom out soon, traders said. February closed 0.75 cent per pound higher at 79.325 cents, and April finished up 0.525 cents at 81.875 cents (all figures […]

By Theopolis Waters

Hog nursery barn Quebec’s third PED case

Jan. 7, 2015 at 11:26 am CST

A hog nursery operation in Quebec’s Monteregie was confirmed Dec. 31 as the province’s third case of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in hogs. Quebec has previously booked two cases of on-farm outbreaks of the PED virus (PEDv) — both at hog finishing operations in the Monteregie in February and November […]

By Staff

Researchers identify new PEDv strain in Minnesota

Jan. 7, 2015 at 10:24 am CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. researchers have identified a new strain of a hog disease that has wiped out millions of baby pigs, a sign the virus will keep mutating as producers work to contain it. A third strain of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) was detected in a Minnesota […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Bearish fundamentals sink CME hogs to near two-year low

Jan. 6, 2015 at 5:08 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hogs fell to their lowest in almost two years on Tuesday, weighed down by sluggish wholesale pork demand and ample hog supplies, traders said. February closed 1.35 cents per pound lower at 78.575 cents and April finished down 1.45 cents, to 81.35 […]

By Theopolis Waters