Insights and Stories on Pork

Strong foreign demand boosts North American hog markets

Dec. 10, 2019 at 4:54 pm CST

MarketsFarm — While the volume of hogs at North American slaughter markets have kept packing plants near capacity in recent weeks, strong foreign export demand has kept pork values high. “We expect pork values to move higher, due to the shortness of production in China,” said Brad Marceniuk, a Saskatchewan […]

U.S. livestock: Plentiful supply pressures CME hogs

Dec. 9, 2019 at 6:16 pm CST

By Tom Polansek

Vietnam considers CPTPP-level tariff cuts on U.S. ag products

Dec. 9, 2019 at 8:20 am CST

By Reuters

U.S. livestock: Hog futures fall after weak export sales report

Dec. 5, 2019 at 5:19 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hog futures firm on cash market strength

Dec. 3, 2019 at 4:25 pm CST

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: Hog futures drop on supply glut

Dec. 2, 2019 at 5:41 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures fell 2.4 per cent on Monday, weighed down by bearish supply concerns, traders said. “The hog market boils down to more of the same. Big supplies, record supplies,” said Don Roose, president of Iowa-based U.S. Commodities “With these trade talks still iffy, […]

By Mark Weinraub

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs recover from two-month low

Nov. 29, 2019 at 6:17 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures ended higher on Friday in a turnaround from a decline earlier in the session to their lowest price since early September. Prices bounced back as pork producers are hoping that China will ramp up buying from the U.S. as it grapples with […]

By Tom Polansek

F. Menard’s pork industry assets cleared for sale

Nov. 28, 2019 at 5:50 pm CST

Antitrust regulators have cleared the path for La Coop federee to take up a significantly larger, vertically integrated share of its home province’s pork packing, feed milling and hog production sectors. The agribusiness co-operative announced Thursday its Olymel and Sollio Agriculture arms have “received the green light” from the federal […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. livestock: CME live cattle set contract high on winter storms

Nov. 27, 2019 at 5:24 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures reached a contract high on Wednesday on expectations that wintry weather would hamper the movement of cattle to slaughterhouses. Two winter storms blasted parts of the United States, after parts of Colorado got up to 30 inches of snow on Tuesday. The […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Live cattle touch seven-month peak on weather woes

Nov. 26, 2019 at 5:48 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures closed higher on Tuesday, recording a seven-month high on expectations that a winter storm this week would slow the movement of cattle to beef packing plants and possibly curb the ability of feedlot cattle to gain weight, traders said. A powerful snowstorm […]

By Julie Ingwersen