There have been times this spring, especially during the lean finely textured beef/beef trimmings debacle, when pork and hog demand have seemed less than stellar. But the past few weeks’ data suggest that ample pork supplies are keeping markets under plenty of pressure....More
With the first quarter’s results in, the No. 1 volume market for U.S. pork exports – Mexico – remains on track to set new records in 2012, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF)....More
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the appointment of five members to the 15-member National Pork Board. New members of the board are Craig Mensink, Preston, MN and Carl Link, Fort Recovery, OH....More
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) are asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clarify its authority over and surveillance of antibiotic use in distiller’s dried grains with soluble (DDGS)....More
The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement went into effect on May 15. In 2011, the United States exported $1.1 billion of agricultural products to Colombia...More
Forty-four senators have written the senate leadership calling for a timely and open debate of the farm bill. The bipartisan letter was organized by Senators Mike Johanns (R-NE), Max Baucus (D-MT), Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Maria Cantwell (D-WA)...More
The spring rally in the hog market has been very strong the past five years, from the last week of March through the third week of May, becoming the strongest seasonal rally of the year, according to Chris Hurt, Purdue University Extension agricultural economist. This year’s counter-seasonal price movement has caused the anticipated spring rally to fizzle....More
Thome uses a Casio G’z One Commando model smartphone with Android apps. He did his homework to make sure the phone would be rugged and could stand up to the challenging and often dusty, dirty and wet conditions in barns and outdoors....More
More and more pork producers are turning to smartphones as a go-to tool within their operations. The dizzying array of applications, or “apps,” as they are commonly called, can seem a bit overwhelming....More
