Source: PigHealthToday.com
The latest disease outbreaks fueled by new disease variants are good reminders that the best biosecurity plans must include strategies to keep disease contained within a barn as well as ways to prevent new disease outbreaks.
“We have to...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
U.S. Cash hog price is having trouble getting traction with the National Hog Price weighted average dipping below a year previously for the first time this year.
DTN calculates U.S. Packer Gross Margin. The...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
The U.S. (Canada) needs continued pork exports to hold hog prices strong. Latest week report brought some good news: Pork Sales 45,700 metric tonnes (MT) - the highest week since May, led by...
In 1994, the Norwegian Pig Health Service decided to embark on a plan to eradicate Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (Mhyo). A partial depopulation program was initiated in all Mhyo positive farrow-to-feed and farrow-to-finish herds. Total depopulation was performed in all positive...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
U.S. slaughter last week 2,551,000; a year ago 2,694,000. That’s 5.5% less.
U.S. Iowa – S. Minnesota slaughter weights are 2 lbs. higher year over year.
Certainly, appears to us less hogs around. The USDA...
Lucas A. Rodrigues1,2, and Daniel A. Columbus1,2*
1Prairie Swine Centre, Inc., Saskatoon, SK
2Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
*dan.columbus@usask.ca
Highlights
Average daily gain and feed efficiency in diseased pigs may be improved by a combination of functional...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
China's financial losses are high. We took the last quarterly reports of four publicly traded swine companies and then divided the amount to what they report as their sow numbers. The four companies...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
As our readers know, we spent a couple weeks in Spain, the world’s third-largest sow herd country. At the time we wrote about the big drop in hog prices and thought major herd...
Feed economics
With feed costs making up 70% of total costs of production on average, it is not surprising that ways to reduce the cost of feed is foremost in producer’s minds, especially during times of reduced availability of common...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
No Chicken
While we were in Spain it was interesting that there was virtually no chicken on restaurant menus. Seems to us a good plan.
U.S. Pork exports to Mexico continue at record pace.
Year...