Weekly Cattle Slaughter Could Be Huge This Week
By Dennis Smith
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
GRAINS:
Besides the inflation situation I’m not hearing much fresh news for the grains today. Prices are mixed in the morning trade. I’m picking up from sources that cash grain is starting to really move...
The Issue:
With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, many consumers experienced, for the first time in their lifetimes, empty grocery store shelves. More than a year into the pandemic, they are facing another unfamiliar trend when it...
Source: PigHealthToday.com
New gilts entering a farrowing room face some big demands for animals still maturing while supporting their first litters.
“We can be pretty demanding as far as what we ask from gilts, especially once they get ramped up in...
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Thursday, November 11, 2021
GRAINS:
Open interest surged higher in corn futures yesterday. Aggressive buying yesterday is focused on one thing and one thing only, inflation. Will futures be able to sustain the rally and follow through to the upside with carryout projected at 1.5 billion bushels? This...
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 were improved by feeding functional amino acids above requirements for growth...
Bloomberg writer Megan Durisin reported last week that, “Global food costs jumped last month, extending a march toward a record and piling more inflationary pressure on consumers and governments.
“A United Nations index tracking staples from wheat to vegetable oils...
By Dennis Smith
312-242-7905
Monday, November 8, 2021
GRAINS:
Lower prices across the board. Be careful selling these markets in the hole ahead of the crop report due out Tuesday at 11:00. Not that I’m bullish but a whip higher before or after the report is a...
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...
Weekly Pork Export Sales Huge
By Dennis Smith
312-242-7905
Thursday, November 4, 2021
GRAINS:
We were stopped out of long Dec soybean oil positions overnight at our stop price of 6042. The overnight low was 6016. Prices have since staged a full recovery with crude oil higher. However,...
Most, if not all, pigs harbor some strains of Streptococcus suis (Strep suis). Lately, challenges by the bacteria appear to be on the rise, but that could be interpreted as a positive.
“It’s up for debate whether Strep suis is...