Insights and Stories on Pork

U.S. livestock: Hog futures rise on supply woes

Apr. 20, 2020 at 5:42 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. hog futures rallied on Monday, with supply expected to tighten after another slaughterhouse was shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, traders said. “If we have packers up and running we know we have the domestic demand,” said Ted Seifried, chief market strategist for Zaner […]

JBS shuts Minnesota pork plant due to coronavirus

Apr. 20, 2020 at 2:45 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle mixed on hopes of economic reopening

Apr. 17, 2020 at 7:18 pm CDT

By Christopher Walljasper

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rebound to one-week high

Apr. 16, 2020 at 7:43 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Trump administration aims to buy milk, meat to help farmers, Perdue says

Apr. 16, 2020 at 1:17 pm CDT

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures recover

Apr. 15, 2020 at 6:16 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle and hog futures advanced on Wednesday as the markets recovered slightly from recent losses that traders said had dropped prices too far below the cash markets. Futures prices have tumbled recently as major meat companies have shut slaughterhouses due to the spread of the […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures rise as traders hope slaughterhouses reopen soon

Apr. 14, 2020 at 10:34 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. cattle futures rose Tuesday in a turnaround from recent losses, supported by a temporary easing of concerns over meat plants’ shutting due to cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus among workers, analysts said. Livestock markets have been fixated on shutdowns of meat plants because processing disruptions […]

By Tom Polansek

‘Elbow to elbow:’ North America’s meat plant workers fall ill, walk off jobs

Apr. 13, 2020 at 11:21 pm CDT

Chicago/Winnipeg | Reuters — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 U.S. cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to a meat inspector. In Colorado, nearly a third of the workers at a […]

By Rod Nickel Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: June hogs, cattle plunge limit down

Apr. 13, 2020 at 8:18 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. livestock futures tumbled on Monday on worries about declining U.S. meat processing capacity after Smithfield Foods announced Sunday it would indefinitely shut one of its pork plants due to novel coronavirus infections among workers. The closure at Sioux Falls, S.D., affecting four to five per […]

By Karl Plume

China’s beef imports to drop as hotpot comes off the boil

Apr. 12, 2020 at 7:13 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters — Just over two months ago, the Jinyuan Fucheng Beef Hotpot restaurant in northern Beijing had a long line of customers waiting outside its doors almost every night of the week. Now, the restaurant that can seat 800 barely fills 20 tables a day, with most people […]

By Dominique Patton Sophie Yu