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
Pork prices have jumped around Australia, but a question mark surrounds the course of the latest pork price rise. There is speculation as to whether rise is an opportunistic flow-on by butchers and processors in response to previously ...
Housewives compare prices every day, including Zhang Ming, a 60-year-old retired woman who frequents a supermarket in Beijing's Fengtai district. On Sunday morning, she spent 45 yuan ($7.30) on 1 kg of pork fillet. "It's amazing ...
Tags: Pork, vegetables
The successful and innovative Australian grocery chain, Harris Farm Markets, has introduced an ‘alternative meat cuts’ range. The range, sold as the “Curious Cuts” line, uses meat not normally sold to ...
The hog market has been a good place to be in the last year. Live hog prices in the last few months have trended almost $20 a head higher than the same period in 2013. So, what's the outlook heading into winter? Feed supplies remain low, ...
Tags: hog market, Agriculture
The U.S. pork industry has started a slow expansion driven by lower feed costs, which should lead to more rapid growth of pork supplies in the latter half of this year, says Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt. That could ...
Tags: pork, Agriculture, Food, Meat
Pork exports during November were down 2.9% compared to a year earlier due to almost no pork going to Russia. Pork imports were up 14.3% in November due to more pork from Canada. In November, 22.2% of U.S. pork production was exported. ...
Tags: Pork, Agriculture, Food
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: hog herd, Agriculture
For the last year, there's been some guarded optimism that the U.S. hog herd could be on its way to expansion. But, the sustained growth forecast in 2013 never really reached fruition by the year's end that industry-watchers saw coming. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Last week, USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) released their estimates of monthly average retail meat prices for November. According to this data, beef prices continue to edge higher. Both average Choice and All Fresh retail beef prices ...
Tags: Meat, Agriculture, Food
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities stayed mostly flat in the week ending Dec. 29 compared with the previous week, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce. Average wholesale prices of 18 kinds of ...
Tianli Agritech, Inc., a leading producer of breeder hogs, market hogs and black hogs headquartered in Wuhan City, China, today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Mrs. Hanying Li, Chairwoman ...
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Bank of Communications (BOCOM), China's leading commercial bank, released its projections on Monday for China's economy in the second half of 2013, predicting gross domestic product growth of around 7.5 percent by the end of the year. ...
Tags: Economy
Russian meat producer Cherkizovo has reported net loss of $0.6m for the first quarter of 2013, compared with net income of $39.8m in Q1 2012 due to high grain prices and low pork prices. The company's sales for the quarter increased by ...
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Food producer Cranswick is in “a strong UK position” after reporting revenue up by 7% to £875M for the year to March 31, according to City analysts. Damian McNeela, analyst with Panmure Gordon, said: “We ...
Tags: Full year results, Cranswick, Meat, Pork