The National Pork Board honored Maynard Hogberg, Ph.D., as the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award on March 8. Hogberg is professor and chair of the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University. The award was presented ...
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Soybeans were sharply lower on fund and commercial selling. Ending stocks were down on the month at 145 million bushels, but that was still larger than expected. Additionally, it looks like traders are more focused on planting and quarterly ...
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Germany-based Vion Zeven has unveiled plans to shut its pork slaughter and processing plant in Lingen, as the facility has been incurring higher losses in the recent past. In 2013, the slaughtering operations at the plant dropped by 30% ...
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Maple Leaf Foods Inc. today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Adjusted Operating Earnings(1)(2)(3) for the fourth quarter was a loss of $21.7 million compared to Adjusted ...
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PRC, Bearish news continues to dominate the newswires in China. Many pork producers continue to be constrained by negative margins as the industry grapples with oversupply. Meanwhile, the poultry industry remains rocked by the H79N virus ...
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The manager of producer services with Sask Pork says it's up to each individual pork producer to ensure the biosecurity protocols are in place that will protect their farms from the introduction of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea. Porcine ...
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More than one-third of US consumers cut back on red meat for health reasons Despite prevalent health trends encouraging consumers to eat less red meat,90 per cent of US consumers are eating some kind of red meat at least once a ...
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February 17, 2014 Orion Premium Draft Beer is now available to buy online in Australia through Asian Beer Online Online alcohol supplier Asian Beer Online has introduced its so-called "champagne of beers", Orion Premium Draft Beer, ...
CHEROKEE, Iowa – Pork producers in northwest Iowa are invited to attend a one-day swine production seminar on Thursday, March 13 in Okoboji. The program is sponsored by Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, University of ...
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The U.S. livestock sector is slowly recovering from high feed prices and drought in the Southern Plains of the United States over the last few years. Improving returns have provided incentives for increased production in the livestock ...
Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. USDA’s outlook forum projects soybean planting at 79.5 million acres, less than what many private firms were expecting, so it looks like beans are trying to buy some acreage. ...
Hormel Foods Corporation today reported its performance for the fiscal year 2014 first quarter. All comparisons are to the first quarter of fiscal 2013. The company reported fiscal 2014 first quarter net earnings of $153.3 million, up 18 ...
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Though hog farmers are starting to see decent profits, the continued presence of a major disease continues to keep a lid on profits and herd expansion, a report released this week shows. In a quarterly pork report, Rabobank livestock ...
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An all-new swine educational event is being held for Iowa youth later this month in Ames. It's the Iowa Pork Producers Association's Cyclone Swine Spectacular and it's being paired with the Iowa State University Block and Bridle Club's ...
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Some chefs and bartenders in California are miffed about a new regulation restricting them from handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands. At the beginning of January, language in the state's food code changed from directing food ...
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