Insights and Stories on South Carolina

U.S. livestock: Hog futures drop to contract lows on demand woes

May. 22, 2023 at 5:48 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures sank to contract lows on Monday, with the market under pressure from plentiful supplies and weak demand for pork at grocery stores and on the export market. “The story remains one of a slow-to-move product market,” brokerage StoneX said in a […]

Low-path H7N3 bird flu believed to have gone high-path in U.S.

Apr. 9, 2020 at 7:47 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

U.N. picks former U.S. governor to run World Food Programme

Mar. 28, 2017 at 2:49 pm CDT

By Reuters

Smithfield to shutter major hog plant against Matthew

Oct. 7, 2016 at 2:50 pm CDT

By Theopolis Waters Tom Polansek

U.S. farmers race to ready for Hurricane Matthew’s blast

Oct. 6, 2016 at 7:37 pm CDT

By Chris Prentice

Killers sought in deaths of 300,000 chickens in South Carolina

Mar. 3, 2015 at 7:23 pm CST

Charleston | Reuters –– Revenge may be the motive for the killings in South Carolina of more than 300,000 commercial chickens worth about $1.7 million over the past two weeks, authorities said Monday. Birds have been found dead of unnatural causes in 16 chicken houses at six farms that grow […]

By Harriet McLeod