Key performance metrics for swine production include feed conversion, litters per sow per year, pigs per litter, and pounds of pork produced per sow per year. All of these metrics have improved dramatically over time. Improvements in production performance...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
At the end of December the USDA estimates U.S. Pork in cold storage was 408,361 (1,000 pounds) a year. A year ago it was 580,464. Down 30% and a ten year low.
In our...
A study by the Torremorell group was recently published in the Preventive Veterinary Medicine Journal. In this publication, Dr. Jorge Garrido-Mantilla et al. evaluated if piglets put together with a nurse sow were more likely to be influenza A...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Summer month lean hog futures hit new contract highs last Friday at 87.20₵/lb. Significantly up from last June at 71₵ or mid-August at 74.50₵.
We remember mid-August as that was when a certain Ag-economist...
Like every product we’ve created, our Adaptive-Flow™ feeder nipples were created to solve a specific challenge faced by our customers. In this case, we set out to offer a better way to control water flow in our wet/dry feeders...
Source: USDA news release
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The January 2021 Feed Outlook report contains estimates for 2019/20, and projections for the 2020/21 U.S. and global feed markets, based on the most current World Agricultural Supply and Demand...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Last week there was chatter about pork demand. The bears attacked the market. When the dust settled Friday, U.S. pork cut-outs were still over 80₵. The market held - a positive sign.
We expect...
Extrusion is the norm in the pet and aqua feed industries, yet it remains unusual for swine feed in the United States. But the technology can improve energy and protein digestibility in pigs, according to research from the University...
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
Holidays are over, packers got working to get hogs killed. Last week, 2,849,000. We aren’t sure but we believe the largest weekly kill in a long time. Despite this big slaughter week U.S....
Jim Long, President and CEO Genesus Genetics
2020 was one of the most challenging if not the most challenging ever in the U.S. hog industry. The slowdown and closing of slaughter plants in the early parts of the pandemic collapsed...