The USDA says the total number of hogs and pigs in the U.S. on December 1st, 2021 was 74.201 million head, down 4% from December 1st, 2020. That reflects a higher slaughter pace and lower breeding rate as producers...
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Source: USDA news release
The Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for December 2021 analyzes economic impacts on animal product markets of month-to-month changes in USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Use Estimates report.
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Margins were weaker over the first half of December on a combination of lower hog prices and higher projected feed costs. While futures prices have been steady to slightly weaker recently, pork demand generally remains quite strong. Pork export...
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics
Christmas holidays have never been an easy time to get market loads of butchers or cull sows to packers. The fact Christmas is on Saturday should help a little but it will still be challenging....
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures closed higher on Monday, bouncing off a three-week low on technical buying, analysts said.
CME February live cattle settled up 0.775 cent at 138.850 cents per pound, rebounding after a dip to 136.850 cents,...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures rebounded on Thursday from four sessions of losses, amid an accelerating slaughter pace and indications that pork prices may be near a bottom following a prolonged slide, traders said.
The daily hog slaughter was...