Protecting Valuable Pork Exports
I have spent a good deal of time over the past few years trumpeting the exporting success of the U.S. pork industry...
Storm Clouds Lurking Over Hog Market
At the risk of contributing to the overuse of the term "perfect storm," I have had the feeling all week that we are headed for a veritable...
Cheap Corn Makes Cheap Hogs
That's the adage and it has historically been very true. It's corollary is that high-priced corn makes high-priced hogs...
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...
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...
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...
Studying the Weight Class Swings
In my Hogs and Pigs Report review sent earlier this week, I alluded to the big swing between the year-over-year change between the inventory of...
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