Marketing
New Decade Holds More Promise for Pork Producers | A Brand New Decade
Jan 15, 2010 12:00 PM, By Dale Miller Editor
Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? These lyrics from the traditional New Year's Eve song Auld Lang Syne often sung in full voice...More
Marketing News
Canada's Breeding Herd 2.4% Smaller
Aug 23, 2010 4:39 PM, Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D.
Statistics Canada released its estimate of July 1 pig inventories last week, which reflect continuing reductions in Canada’s pork sector. Total inventories amounted to 11.781 million head, 2.4% lower than one year earlier. ...
Higher Feed Costs May Check Expansion
Aug 16, 2010 3:31 PM, Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D.
The recent upheavals in grain markets were threatening to drive feed costs sharply higher. At least that was what we thought the week before last when Russia’s wheat problems drove wheat and other grain markets sharply higher....
Price Discovery
Congressman Urges Economic Investigation of GIPSA Rule
Aug 27, 2010 11:54 AM
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) has called for a sound economic analysis to judge both the need and the use for a proposed USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule on the procurement of livestock...
Canada's Breeding Herd 2.4% Smaller
Aug 23, 2010 4:39 PM, Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D.
Statistics Canada released its estimate of July 1 pig inventories last week, which reflect continuing reductions in Canada’s pork sector. Total inventories amounted to 11.781 million head, 2.4% lower than one year earlier. ...
Strategies
Congressman Urges Economic Investigation of GIPSA Rule
Aug 27, 2010 11:54 AM
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) has called for a sound economic analysis to judge both the need and the use for a proposed USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) rule on the procurement of livestock...
Can You Afford to Feed High-Priced Corn to Hogs?
Aug 24, 2010 1:27 PM
When corn is cheap, the old adage is you have to “walk it to market,” meaning add value to corn by feeding it to livestock, says Purdue University Extension economist Chris Hurt...
Pork Quality
Scratching Pork Quality Issues Off ‘The List’
Jun 19, 2010 4:47 PM, By Lora Berg
The pork industry has come a long way toward addressing pork quality concerns, thanks to nearly two decades of focus on red-flag areas that potentially impact consumers’ decisions...
Proper Injection Methods Ensure Quality Pork
May 15, 2010 12:00 PM, By C. Scanlon Daniels, DVM
No one likes to give injections to pigs. Whether vaccinating sows or pigs to prevent disease or administering medications to treat or control disease, proper injections are a routine and necessary task in our production systems...
