Insights and Stories on Pork

Industry groups hail appointment of new China envoy

Sep. 5, 2019 at 3:27 am CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada has appointed veteran business consultant Dominic Barton as ambassador to China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, as the government grapples with a major diplomatic and trade dispute between the nations. Barton, 56, a Ugandan-born Canadian who stepped down as global managing partner of […]

U.S. livestock: Live cattle lower, feeder cattle advance

Sep. 4, 2019 at 7:48 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Lean hogs limit up on Chinese pork prices

Sep. 3, 2019 at 7:30 pm CDT

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. livestock: Cattle slide as traders eye weak cash prices

Aug. 30, 2019 at 8:11 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: Hogs top one-week highs on China trade hopes

Aug. 29, 2019 at 7:02 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME cattle down as USDA launches beef market probe

Aug. 28, 2019 at 6:57 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S live cattle futures fell on Wednesday on large domestic supplies, analysts said, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an investigation into the wide gap with beef prices. Cattle prices have weakened recently after a fire at a Tyson Foods slaughterhouse in Kansas temporarily eliminated […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs, cattle drop on large supplies

Aug. 27, 2019 at 3:07 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. lean hog futures crumbled under the weight of large supplies and a lack of news about trade talks with China on Tuesday, while cattle futures also weakened. The declines were a turnaround from Monday, when hog futures climbed on hopes for easing tensions in the […]

By Tom Polansek

U.S. livestock: CME hogs limit up as trade tensions cool

Aug. 26, 2019 at 8:25 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) lean hog futures jumped Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump predicted a trade deal with China after positive gestures by Beijing. Signs of cooling trade tensions supported the market, traders said, after China imposed retaliatory tariffs on imports of U.S. pork and […]

By Tom Polansek

Chinese pork imports seen doubling over two years by 2020

Aug. 26, 2019 at 1:51 pm CDT

Sao Paulo | Reuters — Chinese pork meat imports are projected to sharply rise from 2.1 million tonnes in 2018 to 3.3 million tonnes in 2019 and 4.2 million tonnes in 2020, because of the African swine fever outbreak, broker and consultancy INTL FCStone said on Monday. FCStone estimated during […]

By Marcelo Teixeira

Japan set to grant TPP-level access for U.S. beef, pork

Aug. 24, 2019 at 3:08 am CDT

Tokyo | Reuters — The United States and Japan have reached the broad framework of a trade agreement, Japan’s Nikkei business daily said on Saturday, with Tokyo making concessions on its agriculture but none immediately apparent from Washington on automobiles. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi […]

By David Lawder Kaori Kaneko