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A crenellated walkway on top of the Great Wall of China. (Cia.gov)

U.S. pork, fruit producers brace for second wave of Chinese tariffs

By Dominique Patton, Tom Polansek, GFM Network News June 22, 2018

Beijing/Chicago | Reuters — U.S. producers of pork, already saddled with duties enacted in an earlier round of the escalating trade dispute with China, are bracing for further pain after Beijing hit the products with additional tariffs due to come into effect next month. China implemented a 25 per cent duty on most U.S. pork […] Read more

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Multi-storey hog hotels elevate Chinese industrial farms to new levels

By Dominique Patton May 11, 2018

Yaji Mountain, China | Reuters — On Yaji Mountain in southern China, they are checking in the sows 1,000 head per floor in high-rise “hog hotels.” Privately-owned agricultural company Guangxi Yangxiang Co. Ltd. is running two seven-floor sow breeding operations, and is putting up four more, including one with as many as 13 floors that […] Read more

(Deyana Robova photo/iStock/Getty Images)

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Hog prices steadying as barbecue season nears

By Dave Sims May 4, 2018

CNS Canada — With barbecue season on the horizon, prices for Canadian pork rose during the week ended April 27, breaking out of their month-long fall. The timing could be perfect, as negotiators have already begun working on improving trade relations and cancelling proposed tariffs on Chinese imports of U.S. pork and other goods. “Prices […] Read more

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Pork supply issues hit Maple Leaf’s Q1 ledger

By Nishara Karuvalli Pathikkal May 2, 2018

Reuters — Meat packer Maple Leaf Foods posted a smaller-than-expected quarterly profit as lower prices and a temporary interruption in supplies hurt sales of its pork products, sending its shares to their lowest in nearly two years. The company, one of Canada’s biggest pork processors, said that processed fresh pork sales were affected by a […] Read more

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U.S. to export pork to Argentina after 26 years

By David Lawder, Michael Hirtzer April 13, 2018

Washington/Chicago | Reuters — U.S. pork exporters will soon be free to ship meat to Argentina for the first time in 26 years after the two countries thrashed out an agreement to overturn an Argentinian import ban. The deal is a sliver of good news for U.S. farmers facing trade tariffs and disruption to exports […] Read more

(Gloria Solano-Aguilar photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

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U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

By Karl Plume April 9, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rallied more than three per cent on Monday in a short-covering and bargain-buying rebound from life-of-contract lows posted last week, traders said. Some contracts, including actively-traded June, rose by as much as the daily three-cent limit as a steady slide in prices over the past […] Read more

Chef Jonathan Collins cuts up a pork leg, foot included, to prepare ginger and black vinegar hog trotters in a video for Canada Pork International. (Video screengrab from CanadaPork.com)

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Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

By Dave Sims April 9, 2018

CNS Canada — Pork producers in Western Canada are still grappling with old problems even as new opportunities present themselves in the export market, according to presenters at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual general meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Canadian pork exports in 2017 totaled 1.29 billion tonnes to a tune of $4 billion. On its […] Read more

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Tariffs raise tough questions for pork industry

By Dave Sims April 6, 2018

CNS Canada — Representatives from the two largest pork-exporting states in the U.S. were in Winnipeg Thursday to take in the Manitoba Pork Council’s general meeting. The delegates, who hailed from Iowa and Minnesota, talked about the various challenges facing their industry. In 2017, over a quarter of the U.S. pork industry’s C$6.5 billion market […] Read more

Attendees at the 2017 Food and Hotel China trade show watch USMEF chefs prepare U.S. beef and pork. (USMEF.org)

Beef Cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Reuters

U.S. meat groups fear for market growth with China beef tariff hike

By Theopolis Waters, GFM Network News April 4, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — China’s proposal on Wednesday for tariffs on U.S. beef confirmed the worst-case scenario for the U.S. cattle industry, trade groups said Wednesday, even as they remained hopeful the dispute could be resolved quickly. China listed U.S. goods from soybeans to beef that could potentially incur a 25 per cent import tariff […] Read more

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U.S. March hog herd hits record high

By Theopolis Waters March 30, 2018

Chicago | Reuters — The number of hogs on U.S. farms in the December-February quarter was up 3.1 per cent from the same period a year ago, a record high for the quarter, according to Thursday’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report. Farmers added extra pigs, encouraged by less-costly feed during that period and the […] Read more

Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

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Media reports suggest U.S. dairy access to Canada a topic of conversation in Ottawa

U.S. livestock: Cattle choppy amid weak cash market, tight supply

China’s canola, soybeans imports to drop one million tonnes each

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U.S. pork, fruit producers brace for second wave of Chinese tariffs

Multi-storey hog hotels elevate Chinese industrial farms to new levels

Hog prices steadying as barbecue season nears

Pork supply issues hit Maple Leaf’s Q1 ledger

U.S. to export pork to Argentina after 26 years

U.S. livestock: CME lean hogs jump on short-covering

Pork producers tackle new challenges, opportunities in 2018

Tariffs raise tough questions for pork industry

U.S. meat groups fear for market growth with China beef tariff hike

U.S. March hog herd hits record high

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