Corporate financial results for the first half of this year are nigh, and more than 60 percent of some 1,800 A-share listed companies have said they expect positive growth. Agriculture, biopharmaceutical, food and beverage are among the ...
China's consumer prices increased 2.3 percent in February from one year earlier, up from January's 1.8 percent, official data showed Thursday. The inflation rate, the highest since July 2014, beat expectations as economists from the ...
Tags: Consumer Prices, inflation rate
Uncertainty surrounding total swine herd losses to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus has sent lean hog futures for spring and summer contracts to record-high levels, but it's possible the markets have overreacted, a Purdue Extension ...
Tags: PEDv, Demand for pork, avoid the disease
An agricultural economist with the University of Missouri says demand will play a key role in the profitability of pork producers throughout 2014. As the result of dramatically lower feed costs and stable live hog prices U.S. pork ...
Although the trade was expecting a slight increase, USDA's January supply and demand report (WASDE) trimmed the size of the 2013 corn crop by 64 million bushels to 13.925 billion. They increased the number of acres harvested by 0.5 million, ...
Tags: Hog, Hog Outlook, Hog Prices
Zhongpin, a China-based meat and food processing company, has reported a 31% decrease in net income to $44.1m for the full-year 2012, compared to $64.2m in 2011, due to a lower gross profit margin, rising labor and utility costs, and higher ...
The National Pork Board has approved budgets for the domestic and international marketing of pork, a move which will increase the demand for pork. The board is planning to provide $27,735,000 in 2013 and about $7,102,000 for international ...
Tags: budgets, pork, USDA, pork exports