Pork Storage Rise No Surprise
USDA's November Cold Storage report, released Tuesday, really contained no surprises or shocking changes in meat inventories...
Market Slippage No Surprise
This week's cash hog market is somewhat of a head-scratcher. Not that I didn't expect lower prices...
Not A "Good News" Week
USDA's monthly Crop Production and World Agriculture Supply and Demand reports released this week indicate that the big crop is getting smaller...
Canadians Report More Slippage
Last week's Hog Statistics Report from Statistics Canada indicates that the Canadian pork production sector is indeed in the clutches of several economic problems, few of which appear to be of their own making...
Brace for Higher Feed Costs
The feedgrain price situation has been the talk of the meat industry this week with quite a bit of speculation as to...
Skyrocketing Corn Prices
My lamentations over the future of feed costs in an "ethanol or bust" world probably have gotten on a few people's nerves -- until the past two weeks...
More Bearish Pig Crop Reports Needed?
I guess we need a few more "bearish" Hogs & Pigs Reports to stimulate this hog market. Go figure....
Circovirus Uncertainties
There is still a lot of talk about porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and porcine circovirus-associated disease (PCVAD), but much of the discussion is now shifting to vaccines that have been...
Export Dip Merely A Blip
Tuesday's release of export data for July was a bit of a shock for the pork industry in that it showed the first year-over-year monthly decline since November 2003...
It's Only September!
What a remarkable few days for U.S. hog slaughter. The three largest days in history for federally inspected slaughter were...
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