Margins deteriorated over the first half of October as a drop in hog prices more than offset the savings from steady to weaker projected feed costs, particularly in nearby marketing periods. CME hog futures have been pressured recently from...
A gap is a hole in prices which occurs when the current day’s high is below the previous day’s low or when the current days low is above the previous day’s high. Gaps indicate a sudden change of direction...
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales for China, Genesus Inc.
“Too pessimistic to be more pessimistic” is the way one publication described it. There certainly has been a lot for pork farmers in China to be pessimistic about recently. Our...
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Businesses of all sizes and across most industries are wrestling with perhaps the worst supply chain bottlenecks to date.
Entering the final quarter of 2021, the U.S. economy and rural industries seem to be transitioning into yet another...
Farmscape for October 8, 2021
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The Director of Risk Management with HAMS Marketing Services reports, despite ongoing challenges resulting from COVID, domestic demand for pork has remained exceptional. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's quarterly Hogs and...
Mercedes Vega
General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal
mvega@genesus.com
Fifteen days ago, Genesus was an exhibitor at FIGAN, Spain. We had the opportunity to meet again with many people withing the industry. The truth is that we had our doubts the...
Market showing signs of a change of direction. Outside days, reversals, & breaking trend lines could contribute evidence of the turn. Increasing volume would confirm the change whereas decreasing volume would indicate the move is temporary.
Walt Breitinger,
Breitinger & Sons, ...
Margins strengthened over the second half of September as hog prices surged following a bullish quarterly Hogs and Pigs report while feed prices were steady to weaker as quarterly grain inventories were larger than anticipated. USDA shocked the market...
Genesus Global Market Report
SE Asia, September 2021
Paul A. Anderson
General Manager South East Asia/ International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc.
Philippines
The average market price of regular slaughter hog drastically went further down in the month of September 2021. As of this...
The total number of pigs in the United States, recorded on 1 September, was 75.4 million head, according to the USDA. This is a reduction of 4% compared to the same date a year ago, but 1% more than...