Pork Commentary: USDA Hogs and Pig Report Not Good News
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: Nice Hog Price Rally
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: Are We in the Swine Business or Grain Market?
CANADA - It now feels that we are no longer in the hog business writes Jim Long in this weeks North American Pork Commentary.

Pork Commentary: World Pork Expo Report
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: World Pork Expo Preview
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: Manitoba Government Proposes Draconian Legislation
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: COOL Supported by Congress
This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentry: Hog Prices Rocket Higher
CANADA - Hog prices rocketed to 78¢ lean in Iowa-Minnesota last Friday – up 5¢ lb from the previous Friday (+$10.00 per head), writes Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: Canada’s Industry Downsizes
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Canadian Genetics Shipped to Expanding Russian Agri-Business
CANADA - Genesus has just completed the successful delivery of a Four Plane Shipment of swine genetics to Kuban AgroHolding of Krasnodar, Russia.

Pork Commentary: Carnage Continues But Ethanol Ideal is Over
CANADA - Last week Jim Long reported that Spectrum, a Manitoba feed/ 20,000-sow production operation was in receivership. Another Western Canadian production system was also in trouble and this week comes the sad news that Stomp Farms, a 25,000-sow system...

Pork Commentary: Hogs and Pigs Report Offers No Panacea for What Ails Us
CANADA - The USDA March Hogs and Pigs Report was released last Friday, writes Jim Long. Unfortunately, it offers at first glance little positive news for our industry.

Pork Commentary: Government Should Quit Sask Production
CANADA - Jim Long says North American prices will continue to fall and he also tables his thoughts on Saskatchewan's Big Sky situation and government's ownership of hog production in the province.

Pork Commentary: Rationlisation Inevitable, But Future Has Prospects
CANADA - In this week's pork commentary, Jim Long analyses the effect of the Christmas holidays. Market stability now depends on a clear run of trading for at least three weeks. Feed prices continue to cripple margins and although North American producers...

Pork Commentary: New Record Weekly Marketings
NORTH AMERICA - We now know that the US packing industry is capable of killing 2,449,000 hogs in a week. That’s what they did a week ago and it’s a new record, writes Jim Long in this week's commentary.

Pork Commentary - The deluge of hogs just keep coming and coming.
CANADA - It’s been 5 consecutive weeks of the highest U.S. marketing’s ever. Last week it was 2.322 million hogs, the same week a year ago was 2.187 million.

Pork Commentary - Canadian Swine Inventory Declines
CANADA - Last week, Statistics Canada released quarterly swine inventories, reports Jim Long.

Pork Commentary: Those Pigs Just Keep Coming and Coming!
CANADA - This weeks North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

Pork Commentary - Record Slaughter but Prices Do Not Collapse
CANADA - When we think of recent history in the hog markets 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003 when there was a collapse of prices in the face of huge marketings, it appears we have established new price plateaus, the ones established in commodities every thirty...

Pork Commentary: China Syndrome
CANADA - This past week, we continued to Biomin Asian Nutrition Tour in China. There were three stops; Guangzhou (Canton), Nanchang and Beijing, writes Jim Long. Our observations: