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Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics Last June China stopped purchasing Canadian Pork. Up to that time in 2019 China’s pork imports from Canada were 15% of total imports, Just below Spain and Germany at about 18-20% each. The closure...
PRRS, the 4-letter abbreviation that should make any hog producer shutter. The extensive disease pressure this year has likely caused this feeling more than once. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) is a viral disease resulting in complications with...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics   Last Monday, December Lean Hog Futures were 59.72₵ lb. On Friday, 5 days later, they closed at 68.70₵ lb. That’s a 9₵ lb. increase or about $20 per head in 5 days. It’s a...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics   USDA December 1 Hogs and Pigs Report (1,000 head) December 1 2019 2020 2020 as percent of 2019 Kept for Breeding 6,471 6,276 97 Market 71,757 71,226 99 Market Hogs and Pigs by weight groups Under 50 pounds 22,048 21,739 99 50-119 pounds 20,648 20,260 98 120-179 pounds 15,256 15,246 100 180 pounds and over 13,816 13,980 101 Fig Crop 71,829 71,030 99 Dec 2019-Nov2020 (12-Months) (1,000 head) Sows...
Seasonal infertility continues to be a widespread problem for sow herds across the US. And if you don’t have a problem with seasonal infertility, it may mean you are not recognizing it, reported Daniel Gascho, DVM, with the Four...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics For the second week in a row, U.S. market hog harvest was higher than a year ago. 2,457,000 vs. 2,439,000. We can only hope that U.S. plants can continue to ramp up production....
Michael Schwirtz, Andrew E. Kramer and Michael Levenson reported on the front page of Sunday’s New York Times that, “President Vladimir V. Putin warned on Saturday that crippling economic sanctions imposed by the West were ‘akin to a declaration...
Corn prices and soybean prices were very volatile in 2021.  The average corn price in Indiana was $4.32 per bushel in January, increased to $6.32 in June, and will likely be around $5.50 at the end of the year. ...
Last Week’s Cattle Kill Was Larger Than Expected; Bullish!  By Dennis Smith   312-242-7905  Monday, November 29, 2021  GRAINS:  Corn open interest was down nearly 70k from Friday’s trade. Shorts wanted out and got out. The fundamentals are not bullish. Prices are slightly lower early today. Stick with the risk on bearish positions that...
A couple of puzzling cases of diarrhea in baby pigs that didn’t test positive for the usual culprits were recently identified through genome sequencing as a porcine sapovirus, reported Daniel Hendrickson, DVM, Four Star Veterinary Service in Farmland, Indiana. The...
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