U.S.-South Korea Trade Proposal Holds Promise
A fully implemented U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement could add $10/head to the price of market hogs, according to the National Pork Producers Council ...
Packers' Status Remains Unsettled
It was a tumultuous week for the North American pork industry's packers. The culmination of the Swift & Company derby and the closure of the Mitchell's plant...
Making Sense of Demand Data
The status of meat demand in general, and pork demand in particular, is a bit of a mystery at present...
Smithfield-Premium Standard Farms Merger Approved
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division has approved Smithfield Foods Inc.'s acquisition of Premium Standard Foods (PSF). “The division found that the merged firm would continue to face significant competition in the sale of fresh and processed pork ...
Canada Faces Packer, Production Challenges
Sporadic economic gains and losses, coupled with a labor shortage and uncertainty in the packer segment, present huge challenges to the Canadian pork industry...
New Paradigms Taking Shape
U.S. market hog prices continued their quite normal seasonal increase last week with national net negotiated prices reaching $72.65/cwt. carcass...
Missouri Packer Finishes Major Expansion Plans
A $23 million expansion of Premium Standard Farms’ (PSF) processing facilities at Milan, MO, was completed in late April, increasing the daily processing capacity by 35% and adding 75 jobs....
Canada Reports More Slippage
Canada's Hog Statistics report, released late last week, indicates that the Canadian breeding herd continues to decline on a year-over-year basis...
Debating Meat Dominance
So what is the "dominant" meat in the U.S. marketplace? That probably depends on how you want to define dominant. Perspective is such an important issue in so many things, isn't it? ...
Market Study Under a Microscope
In the Feb. 22 edition of North American Market Preview, I addressed the findings of the recently released Livestock and Meat Marketing Study by...
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