Meat - Hog, Cattle, Poultry etc.

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Postby winston » Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:34 pm

Tens of thousands of drowned livestock carcasses litter North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew

Hurricane Matthew was a devastating storm.

More than 1,000 people died in Haiti, with much of the country still in need of aid. At least thirty-four people died because of the storm in the US, 19 of them in North Carolina, where floodwaters are still rising days after the storm.

But the human toll isn’t the end of the devastation North Carolinians will have to deal with.

The Washington Post reports that farmers will need to clean up “at least tens of thousands” of drowned livestock carcasses after floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew washed over factory farms.

In addition to swamping homes and roads in Cumberland and Roberson counties in the state, helicopter surveys show floodwaters reached several facilities where animals are kept, the Post reports.

Reuters reports 50,000 fewer hogs were slaughtered nationally on Monday, mostly due to plant closures in North Carolina.

The majority of dead livestock are likely chickens and pigs.

The sheer volume of carcasses can pose a serious public health hazard, the Post reports, and Governor Pat McCrory has promised a rapid cleanup.

As local NBC News affiliated WECT 6 reports, dead animals aren’t the only danger as water spills across factory farms.

The flood waters could breach some, if not many, of the hundreds of hog lagoons and poultry waste piles scattered across our region….

“This is just a big massive pit of hog feces and urine,” [Cape Fear Riverkeeper Kemp] Burdette explained of your typical hog lagoon. “The animals that are confined to those [neighboring] barns can literally drown inside the barns which we saw in Hurricane Floyd…. Eventually the barns can be damaged enough that the animals literally float out. And there were plenty of stories during hurricane Floyd of full grown dead hogs floating down rivers.”

Back in 1999, Hurricane Floyd flooded large portions of North Carolina, killing 3 million chickens and turkeys and more than 30,000 hogs.


Source: Business Insider

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Re: Meat - Hog, Cattle, Poultry etc.

Postby winston » Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:39 pm

Reports of dead livestock from Hurricane Matthew’s aftermath

By JoAnn Alumbaugh

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's daily livestock slaughter report estimated Monday's hog slaughter at 385,000 head. That was down from 440,000 last Monday and 441,000 head on Sept. 26.


Source: PORK Network


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Postby winston » Wed Oct 19, 2016 8:45 pm

Oct 14, 2016

Hurricane Matthew inflicts significant damage on Carolina ag

By Krissa Welshans

The National Pork Producers Council reported Oct. 14 that fewer than 3,000 pigs had perished from among North Carolina's more than 2,100 permitted hog farms.


An estimated 11 lagoons in North Carolina have been inundated with flood waters, meaning a small portion of heavily diluted effluent has been washed out of them. This compares to 50 that were inundated during Hurricane Floyd in 1999, the pork council noted.


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Postby winston » Thu Nov 17, 2016 8:52 am

Pampered Canadian pigs feed Japan's hunger for pricey pork

By Rod Nickel and Yuka Obayashi

Japan’s growing appetite for pricey pork cuts is driving Canadian and U.S. fresh pork exports to record levels, spurring producers to use every advantage to gain market share.


U.S. exporters shipped 147,000 tonnes of chilled pork to Japan from January through August, setting a record-brisk pace, according to the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Canada sold C$679 million ($507 million) worth of pork to Japan for the period, its fastest pace in 11 years as measured by value.


Source: Bloomberg

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Postby winston » Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:06 am

Higher Prices for Cattle and Hogs Are Creating a Great Trading Opportunity

By Matt Badiali

Pork and beef prices at the grocery store are headed higher.

The iPath Bloomberg Livestock Subindex Total Return ETN (COW) – which holds commodity futures on livestock – hit an all-time low last month.

The fund’s holdings are roughly 63% beef and 37% hog.

It was down nearly 50% over the last two and a half years, and more than 60% since its inception in 2007.


Source: The S&A Resource Report

http://dailytradealert.com/2016/11/24/h ... portunity/
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Postby winston » Fri May 26, 2017 8:12 am

Boom times for pork in the US as summer grilling seasons gets going

Americans spent about US$208 million on pork for the holiday in 2016


Pork chops in April were the lowest for the month since 2011, the latest US government data show.

While bacon has climbed from a year ago, it’s still down more than 5 per cent from a peak reached in June 2014.

Pork has also gotten relatively cheaper when compared with beef, at the wholesale level.


The US hog herd was up 4.2 per cent over last year as of March 1


Source: SCMP

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Postby winston » Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:46 am

First US beef exports on the way to China by plane, ending a 14-year ban by Beijing

China is the world’s fastest growing beef market, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and its imports increased to US$2.5 billion last year from US$275 million in 2012.


So far, only Greater Omaha Packing and Tyson Foods , the biggest US meat company, have processing plants approved by the USDA to ship beef to China.


On Tuesday, Cargill, another major beef processor, said that only a small percentage of the total current US cattle supply would qualify for exports to China under the terms of the new trade agreement.

The deal requires US producers to track the birthplace of cattle born in the United States that are destined for export to China and take other steps.


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http://www.scmp.com/business/global-eco ... 4-year-ban
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Re: Meat - Hog, Cattle, Poultry etc.

Postby winston » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:29 am

China: Healthy diet affecting pork consumption

The Chinese love their pork but it looks like the world's most populous nation may have had its fill of the popular meat.

Reuters has a great story about how the adoption of more healthy diet is affecting pork consumption growth.

Here's a little taste:

For pig farmers in China and abroad, it is a difficult trend to stomach. The producers and other market experts had expected the growth to continue until at least 2026.

Chinese hog farmers are on a building spree, constructing huge modern farms to capture a bigger share of the world's biggest pork market, while leading producers overseas have been changing the way they raise their pigs to meet Chinese standards for imports. Some have, for example, stopped using growth hormones banned in China.

China still consumes a lot more meat than any other country. People here will eat about 74 million tonnes of pork, beef and poultry this year, around twice as much as the United States, according to U.S. agriculture department estimates.

More than half of that is pork and for foreign producers it has been a big growth market, especially for Western-style packaged meats.

But pork demand has hit a ceiling, well ahead of most official forecasts. Sales of pork have now fallen for the past three years, according to data from research firm Euromonitor.

Last year they hit three-year lows of 40.85 million tonnes from 42.49 million tonnes in 2014, and Euromonitor predicts they will also fall slightly in 2017.

Source: Barron's Asia
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Postby winston » Sun Jul 02, 2017 8:11 pm

Chart of the day: Pork prices probe highs

by Nicole Elliott

Rather more slowly than we had originally thought, because Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures prices sagged a little between February and April this year, our target of 87.25 US cents per pound was hit last week.

Becoming overbought in the process, the move means that we have matched and closed above the highs in 2015 and 2016, retracing half of the drop since 2014’s record high at 133.80.

This is now an obvious time to take stock. Because volume is good and open interest is rising sharply, because momentum is strongly bullish and historical volatility high, we feel there is a good chance of yet another surge to the psychological 100.00-110.00 US cents per pound.

Source: SCMP

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Postby winston » Fri May 25, 2018 10:22 am

Hogs: An off the radar commodity could see triple-digit gains

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