Chicago Mercantile Exchange lean hog futures ended lower on Thursday, retreating near the close on technical selling and soft cash hog markets, traders said.
The CME’s lean hog index, a two-day weighted average of cash hog prices, fell 0.51 cent...
A new high-oil corn product offers greater amino acid and energy digestibility in growing pigs, according to new research from the University of Illinois.
“This corn has a higher oil concentration – almost 9% – and more protein, a little...
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The Executive Director of the Swine Health Information Center says the possible introduction of a foreign animal disease through feed remains a top-of-mind concern for the pork sector. A just completed...
Bloomberg’s Mike Dorning reported last week that, “The U.S. Department of Agriculture has potentially found a vaccine to combat African Swine Fever , a disease that devastated hog herds in China and was recently detected in the Dominican Republic...
The USDA's Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report shows signs of further contraction as producers seek to boost profitability, even as the industry tries to meet strong demand expectations.
On September 1st, the total U.S. inventory was 75.352 million head, down...
In its monthly Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook report last week, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) stated that, “Pork exports in July were 508 million pounds, 8.5 percent lower than those of a year ago.
Higher exports to most major...
Genesus Global Market Report
USA, August 2021 - Feed Conversion
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics Inc.
I had a conversation with a producer that uses a different genetics company. We started discussing his death loss in finishing and he admitted that in...
Whey, which is a co-product from dairy processing plants that extract fat and protein from milk to make cheese, has been used in diets fed to weanling pigs as a source of lactose. Whey powder does not contain much...
Phytic acid is the main storage of P in plants, and most P in plant feed ingredients is bound in the phytate complex. Because pigs do not secrete phytase, an enzyme to hydrolyze inositol bonds in phytate, the utilization...
This inaugural report sets a benchmark on some of the most important areas of the business and will be used as a waypoint on the journey to help measure, report and verify progress in the future.
The alignment utilizing the...