CME: Positive News for US Meat Sector
US - Steve Meyer and Len Steiner report that the US meat sector received positive news (yes, that says “positive” for a change!) on two fronts today with reports that China will soon renew imports of US...

WWFE REPORT: Call for Fair Meat Trade
US - The prospect for growth in international trade in US meat is being hit by a series of significant obstacles, writes ThePigSite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Philippines Farmers to Benefit from Free Trade Deal
PHILIPPINES - Poultry and pig farmers are set to benefit from lower feed costs due to the ASEAN free trade agreement.

Producers' Traceability Costs to Be Offset
CANADA - Saskatchewan's agriculture minister is hoping enhanced traceability within Canada's livestock sector will help secure ongoing access to overseas markets for Canadian food products, writes Bruce...

Cull Breeding Swine Program Audits Underway
OTTAWA, CANADA - As a requirement of the Cull Breeding Swine Program (CBSP), random audits are being conducted to ensure culled breeding swine facilities are in compliance.

CME: Drop in Canadian Breeding Herd
US - According to Steve Meyer and Len Steiner, Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), the cooperative of dairy cooperatives that has run the series of dairy herd retirement programs over the past few years,...

US and Canadian Hog Inventory Down Three Per Cent
US - This publication is a result of a joint effort by Statistics Canada and NASS to release the total hogs, breeding, market hogs, sows farrowed, and pig crop for both countries within one publication....

New Livestock Traceability Rebate Introduced
CANADA - The Saskatchewan Government has introduced a new voluntary livestock traceability rebate, writes Bruce Cochrane.

NFU Responds to Interview on 'Saving the Planet'
UK - The NFU has issued a statement in response to yesterday's front page story in The Times, where Lord Stern of Brentford said, "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse...

Pork Commentary: Back to Reality - And It Isn't Pretty
CANADA - This week's North American Pork Commentary from Jim Long.

CME: Wholesale Pork Market May Be Short-lived
US - Hog futures have been buoyed in recent days by a marked improvement in pork wholesale values, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner in their Daily Livestock Report for 27 October.

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

EU Pig Prices: Prices Inconsistent Throughout Europe
EU - This week, the slaughter pig prices throughout Europe prove to be tending inconsistently.

Market Preview: The Two Sides of a Cheaper Dollar
US - Weekly US Market Preview provided by Steve R. Meyer, Ph.D., Paragon Economics, Inc.

More TAP Benefits for Manitoba Pork Producers
MANITOBA, CANADA - In response to increased challenges facing Manitoba's pork industry, pork producers will now be able to access 75 per cent of their estimated 2009 AgriStability payment. This increase...

Weekly Outlook: Looking Beyond Harvest
US - One of the factors supporting corn and soybean prices in recent weeks is the delay in getting the crops harvested, writes Darrel Good, agricultural economist at the University of Illinois.

CME: Current Grain Market Situation Discouraging
US - The latest USDA crop progress report showed that US corn producers continue to run well behind year ago and five year average levels in harvesting the current crop, write Steve Meyer and Len Ste...

Viet Nam Pushes to Reform Meat Processing Industry
VIET NAM - The Vietnamese government is pushing to reform and modernise its meat processing industry.

Brisk Interest Seen in Hog Farm Transition Program
CANADA - The Canadian Pork Council reports producers from every province have registered for the first round of bidding under the Hog Farm Transition Program, writes Bruce Cochrane.

Outlook ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ for US Agriculture
US - Speakers at Farm Bureau’s second annual commodity outlook conference, 15-16 October, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, painted a “cautiously optimistic” outlook for US agriculture, with crop and dairy producers...

EU Pig Meat Production Cost Report
EU - The latest in a series of annual reports examining the relative costs of pig meat production up to farmgate level in selected EU countries will be available shortly.

Pork Production Sets Record High for September
US - Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.26 billion pounds in September, down slightly from the 4.27 billion pounds produced in September 2008.

Thank You (You Know Who You Are)
UK - The queue of unsold spot pigs may be getting slightly shorter due to the major efforts made by some of the more helpful abattoirs out there who were prepared to up their kills and still pay a reasonably...

Top DPRK Leader Calls for Large-scale Raising of Pigs
NORTH KOREA - Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), called on all the sectors and units of the country to raise more pigs, the official Rodong Sinmun daily said on...

ASF Jumps from Southern to Northern Russia
RUSSIA - The deadly pig disease African Swine Fever (ASF) has jumped 2,000 kilometres from southern Russia to St Petersburg in north-western Russia.