Insights and Stories on Hogs

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs bounce after sell-off, cattle also rise

Aug. 7, 2019 at 4:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures rallied as much as four per cent on Wednesday in a technical buying and short-covering bounce following a string of losses triggered by worries over exports to China. The world’s largest hog and pork market has threatened to halt […]

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs tumble on worsening U.S.-China trade ties

Aug. 6, 2019 at 6:55 pm CDT

By Karl Plume

Elanco buys swine PWD vaccine maker

Aug. 5, 2019 at 8:05 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

U.S. farmers suffer ‘body blow’ as China slams door on farm purchases

Aug. 5, 2019 at 5:36 pm CDT

By Hallie Gu Tom Daly

U.S. livestock: Hog futures swing wildly as trade war intensifies

Aug. 5, 2019 at 4:54 pm CDT

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Futures rally on choppy grains, hopes for Chinese buying spree

Jul. 23, 2019 at 3:37 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters – Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live hog futures rallied on Tuesday, as competition among packers for spot delivery grew and animal weights slipped after the recent U.S. heat wave, traders said. Live cattle futures also inched up, supported in part by choppy trading in U.S. grain futures […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

U.S. livestock: Hogs top five-week high on China demand expectations

Jul. 19, 2019 at 4:45 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures reached their highest prices in more than five weeks on Friday on expectations for increased pork demand from China, the world’s top importer. Live cattle futures ended higher after dropping to their lowest prices in more than a week. […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs rise amid hopes of China pork demand

Jul. 18, 2019 at 8:02 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures reached their highest prices in about a month on Thursday on expectations of bigger pork imports by China, traders said. A recent rise in Chinese pork prices, linked to an outbreak of a fatal hog disease in Asia, is […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs near limit up on renewed pork export hopes

Jul. 17, 2019 at 6:51 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures soared by the daily limit and approached a one-month high on Wednesday on renewed hopes that China will increase pork imports to compensate for pigs killed in a widespread outbreak of a fatal swine disease. China’s agriculture ministry said a […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures weaken as beef prices decline

Jul. 16, 2019 at 5:56 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) live cattle and feeder cattle futures slumped on Tuesday as concerns about declining beef prices continued to hang over the markets. Decreasing beef prices have spurred expectations that meat packers such as Tyson and Cargill may be less aggressive when bidding to […]

By Tom Polansek