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    Dr. Paul Sundberg recognized with Distinguished Service Award

    Disease Notifiable diseases Husbandry
    calendar icon 18 March 2024
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    Why monitor swine herds for PCV2?

    Non-notifiable diseases PCV Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 23 August 2023
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    An interview with Noel Garbes, DVM – Senior Technical Services Veterinarian, Zoetis

    Innovation: HyLife weaning ramp wins Aherne Prize at 2023 Banff Pork Seminar

    Production stages Nursery/weaner Treatments and prevention
    calendar icon 13 January 2023
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    Learn more about this new industry innovation

    ADM launches new sweetening feed products for piglets

    Herd management Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 22 November 2022
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    Designed to improve the palatability of feed for weanling pigs

    Dr. Kenneth Stalder: global pork industry mourns his loss

    Pig Welfare Herd management Sow management
    calendar icon 5 November 2022
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    Iowa State University professor, well-known for research his sow lameness, productivity and longevity, has passed away

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    January 2021

    CME update: hog futures close slightly lower on bargain-buying

    Market Trends Coronavirus (COVID-19) Marketing pork
    calendar icon 12 January 2021
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    US lean hog futures traded mostly higher on 11 January on bargain-buying and short covering, but the nearby February contract posted losses and funds rolled their long positions to deferred months.

    Canada pushes gestation crate phase-out deadline to 2029

    Pig Welfare Herd management Sow management
    calendar icon 11 January 2021
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    Canada’s pork industry pledged to phase-out gestation crates in pig farming in 2014, with an aim to be crate-free by 2024. But stakeholders now want to extend the phase-out deadline to 2029.

    CME update: hog futures close mostly lower as grain prices hang over market

    Policy and regulation Feed commodity markets Market Trends
    calendar icon 11 January 2021
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    US lean hog futures closed lower on 8 January as traders contended with rising corn prices and expectations of further COVID-19 stimulus from incoming Biden administration.

    CME update: February futures end lower, but traders expect boost in commodities markets

    Processing Processing Market Trends
    calendar icon 8 January 2021
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    US lean hog futures closed narrowly mixed on 7 January, as traders weighed improving pork demand against existing closures.

    China’s hog futures sink 12 percent on debut

    Markets Market Trends Markets and economics
    calendar icon 8 January 2021
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    China’s live hog futures tumbled in their debut on the Dalian Commodity Exchange, with analysts attributing the sell-off to the contract’s high listing price and expectations of increasing supplies.

    Smithfield announces new management shakeup

    People Health and safety Feed and nutrition
    calendar icon 8 January 2021
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    Smithfield Foods unveiled a management reshuffle on 7 January as the company and its new chief executive deal with the ripple effects of a pandemic-led drop in restaurant meat consumption and COVID-19 infections among US workers.

    CME update: lean hog futures trim as packers process holiday backlogs

    Markets Processing Processing
    calendar icon 7 January 2021
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    US lean hog futures fell on 6 January as packers work through backlogs caused by holiday shutdowns.
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