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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The combined U.S. and Canada cattle and hog herds have gotten smaller. That’s as both nations respond to weather issues leading to liquidation of cattle herds and attempts to improve profitability for hog producers, reports Brownfield Ag News. A report from the USDA and Statistics Canada says that on July 1st there were […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – USDA’s projections in the May 12, 2023 WASDE report estimate for very large corn and soybean crops this season, and a modestly higher all-wheat harvest. That’s good news for the cattle and beef industries For 2024, cattle prices are forecast above 2023 on tighter supplies.  The 2023 cattle price forecast is raised […]
LINCOLN, NE — The question of what is moral when it comes to animal pen sizes and other pig-production practices took center stage Tuesday with Supreme Court justices during oral arguments over California’s Proposition 12 in the National Pork Producers Council appeal against the State of California. Agriculture groups led by NPPC argued the Dormant […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The latest combined U.S. and Canadian cattle and hogs looks supportive for cash business, having become tighter with drought in the cattle business and a cut in production by U.S. hog producers in efforts to improve their bottom line. According to the USDA and Statistics Canada, the combined cattle herd on July […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD — A ballot question that could ban new meat processing plants in Sioux Falls is moving forward. The city council certified the language of the ballot question on Aug. 2 after the citizen-led ballot measure campaign committee, Smart Growth Sioux Falls,  turned in over 6,000 signatures, roughly five percent of registered voters. […]
VERNON, CA – Smithfield Foods, the largest pork processor in the world, will close its Vernon, California, plant and reduce its hog herd in the West, the company announced Friday. Owned by Hong Kong-listed WH Group Ltd, Smithfield Food is withdrawing from California by early next year, citing red tape like that from Proposition 12 […]
WASHINGTON, DC – All cattle and calves in the United States and Canada combined totaled 103 million head on January 1, 2022, down 2 percent from the 105 million head on January 1, 2021. All cows and heifers that have calved inventory at 44.0 million head, down 2 percent from a year ago. The joint […]
WASHINGTON, DC – WHEAT: The outlook for 2021/22 U.S. wheat this month is for reduced supplies, lower domestic use and exports, and decreased ending stocks. Supplies are lowered on reduced wheat production and beginning stocks. All wheat production is lowered 152 million bushels to 1,746 million. The all wheat yield is 45.8 bushels per acre, […]
GUYMON, OK – One of the largest U.S. pork processors in the United States wants to pursue a 10-1/2-month delay to a federal court decision that would force it to slow the speed of hog slaughtering at a massive Oklahoma pork plant, according to court documents. Seaboard, the second-biggest U.S. pig producer/processor after Smithfield Foods, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Sheep Industry Association joined half a dozen other livestock groups in calling on Congress to reject any attempts to fund the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Packers and Stockyards Program through user fees. “Moving PSD to fee funding would be an inequitable shifting of the burden of the program onto the […]
