African swine fever (ASF) is highly contagious and virulent disease with very high mortality in both domestic pigs and wild boar. Normally having a fast onset of disease with high mortality in infected animals is not a great recipe...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
March U.S. Pork Exports were record large at 294,724 metric tonnes (mt), up 1% from last year and set a new value record at $794.9 million (up 4%). A true reflection of the...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Harsh reality or the inconvenient truth is a factor in many of our lives. In the swine industry we have the stories of productivity. Seems no one has less than 25 pigs per...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Last week Lean Hogs increased from $103.0₵ / lb. to $106.5₵ / lb. There appears to be a relentless ongoing price increase driven by tight supplies and good demand.
Our Observations
Weekly slaughter last week...
In July 2019, a PRRSV-negative boar station in Demark was infected with a PRRSV recombinant that involved two PRRSV vaccine strains. At the time of infection, the boar stud PRRS monitoring involved performing PRRS antibody testing every 2 weeks....
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Lean Hog Futures Tumble!
This past week we saw a major adjustment down on the Lean Hog Futures Market. Summer futures declined about $7.00. A drop of about $14.00 per head.
Our Observations
Cash lean...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Last year at this time we were at the start of the Covid crisis in our industry. A year ago Lean Hogs were 39₵ lb. Last week they were $1.01 lb. on a...
We know that having some straw in the pen with growing pigs can reduce the incidence and severity of tail biting. Certainly the pigs will manipulate the straw and this will satisfy some behavioural needs. People wonder if the...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
The March 1st U.S. Hogs and Pigs Report indicates fewer Breeding Pigs and Market Hogs.
Our observations:
Breeding Herd
Date
Year
1,000s head
Dec 1st
2019
6471
Dec 1st
2020
6276
March 1st
2021
6215
The U.S. breeding stock peaked at 6,471,000 on the Dec 1, 2019 inventory....
Congenital tremor or "Shaky Pig" was identified in Canada in the 1950's. The exact cause of Congenital Tremor Type AII remained a bit of a mystery for some time but was thought to be some sort of viral infection. Recently, Next...