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Increased Crop Yields Result in Lower Hog Production Estimates

2015-08-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - It appears that we have survived the first (and perhaps only) early killing of this year’s crop, writes Steve Meyer in the National Hog Farmer.

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Increased crop yields result in lower hog production estimates

2015-08-18 00:05:00| National Hog Farmer

Impact of crop production report dropped estimates of 2016 hog costs by over $4 per hundredweight carcass. That reduction and a continued rally in lean hog futures has now pushed 2015 farrow-to-finish profits back to nearly break-even and pushed projected 2016 costs to $7.19 per head. read more

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Hydrogen sulfide the invisible killer in hog manure

2015-08-13 18:08:00| National Hog Farmer

As fall harvest nears, hog producers will be preparing to empty their manure pits. Producers need to be conscience of the dangers that lurk in the form of hydrogen sulfide that has claimed at least four lives this year. read more

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Mexico Hog Markets - And the Road Still Winding...

2015-08-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

MEXICO - In July, the farm grain prices finished as follow: i) corn at $235 vs $246 USD/MT previous month ($3,900 vs. $3,860 Mx/MT), -4.4 per cent previous month in USD and 1 per cent above in Mexican Peso), ii) Sorghum $223 vs $233 USD/MT ($3,697 vs $3,660 Mx/MT), and 4 per cent reduction in USD and basically non-movement previous month in Mx.), and iii) soybean meal $420 vs $430 USD/MT ($6760 Mx/MT both months), writes Genesus Mexico, Carlos A. Peralta, President.

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Hog Outlook: Strong Dollar Impacting on Trade

2015-08-10 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - The strong dollar continues to be a negative factor for US trade. Meat imports are up and exports of pork, beef, turkey and chicken are each lower than during the first half of 2014, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown, University of Missouri.

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