Export Demand, Less Production Expected to Fuel Higher Prices
Despite economic turmoil, moderately high feed costs and weak domestic demand, U.S. hog prices may record gains in 2009, thanks to strong export demand and less pork production...
New Approach May Be Needed to Fuel Exports
U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) President and CEO Philip Seng says the new administration should be prepared to try a new approach to improving trade relations with key U.S. export markets, and not shy away from using different tactics to achieve results...
COOL Causes Trade Friction Between U.S.-Canada Producers
Canadian livestock producers want their government to start trade actions against the United States over a new trade law that is already starting to curtail beef and pork trade to American markets....
Crop Projections Reduced, Signaling Higher Prices
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today reduced its forecast for this year’s corn and soybean harvests due to dry weather, setting up the potential for higher commodity prices...
How Can More Pork End Up Being Less?
The United States is producing more pork but less is available for U.S. consumers, according to a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist...
All-Natural Pork Group Provides DNA Traceback
Nature’s Premium Brand, producer of all-natural fresh pork, has announced the capability to track DNA for product traceability back to the farm of origin...
Near-Record Harvests Predicted
Despite severe flooding throughout much of the Corn Belt in June, crops have rebounded with yields expected to produce the second-largest corn crop and the fourth-largest soybean crop in history...
Pork Demand Slows, But Live Hog Demand Remains Strong
Consumer demand for pork from January through June fell 2.3% from a year ago, according to University of Missouri agricultural economists Glenn Grimes and Ron Plain...
Pork Exports Post Exceptional Gains
May pork exports posted “phenomenal” gains with an increase of 98.2% above a year earlier, according to a recent Hog Outlook report from Glenn Grimes, University of Missouri professor emeritus...
Crisis Management Tips Offered On-Line
The Illinois Pork Producers Association (IPPA) and the University of Illinois Extension service have introduced an interactive Web site to provide assistance to pork producers during these unsettling economic times...
