Insights and Stories on Hogs

Jul. 11, 2017 at 7:54 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Canada’s Farm Input Price Index has climbed slightly for the first quarter of this year. Canada-wide, the index rose 1.3 per cent for the first quarter of this year compared to the final quarter of 2016. When comparing this year’s first quarter to last year’s first quarter, […]

By Terry Fries

Mar. 10, 2017 at 7:17 pm CST

Reuters — Wildfires devastated a Smithfield Foods hog farm in Laverne, Oklahoma, killing at least several thousand pigs, company and local officials said Friday. The exact number of swine killed in the Oklahoma fire, which began on Monday, was not immediately known. Smithfield did not say how many died in […]

By Michael Hirtzer, Renita D. Young

Mar. 9, 2017 at 6:54 pm CST

Austin | Reuters — Fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly two million acres of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches and left thousands of cattle and other livestock dead, officials said Thursday. Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched […]

By Jon Herskovitz

Dec. 28, 2016 at 1:17 pm CST

Chicago/Reuters – A pre-Christmas USDA quarterly report showing showing an unexpectedly large hog herd caused Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures fell more than two per cent Dec. 23. USDA said Dec. 23 the hog and pig herd as of Dec. 1 was 71.5 million head, or 104 per cent […]

By Michael Hirtzer

Nov. 10, 2016 at 1:00 pm CST

CNSC/Winnipeg – A record week for U.S. slaughterhouses is weighing on hog prices in Canada. According to the USDA, hogs slaughtered under federal inspection for the week ended November 5 were pegged at 2.532 million head, which is an all-time record. That number is also up 7.2 per cent from the […]

By Dave Sims