Publication: PorkNetwork

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Groups want ‘comprehensive’ FTA with EU

A coalition of U.S. food and agricultural organizations led by the National Pork Producers Council is urging the Obama administration to press the European Union to negotiate a “comprehensive” free trade agreement, including addressing sanitary-phytosanitary ... [Published PorkNetwork - 15 hours ago]

Entities: European Union, Coalition, United States, Corn, National Pork Producers Council

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast

Drier weather last week gave farmers the opportunity they needed to make up for lost time. After struggling for weeks against the wetter weather, they were able to get 71 percent of the corn in the ground.This is 43 percentage points higher than last ... [Published PorkNetwork - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Corn, Soybean, John Dee

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Arson charges brought after Ill. hog barn burns

Angela Bowman, Staff Writer | Updated: 05/20/2013Resize textA fire at a farm in Crawford County, Ill., killed an unknown number of hogs valued at more than $300,000 last week, and now authorities have arrested man in connection with the fire.The Daily ... [Published PorkNetwork - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Arson, Chaos, Allegation

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Brumm Speaks Out: I’m not cut out for the urban life

Mike Brumm, Brumm Consultancy | Updated: 05/20/2013Resize textThis week’s blog is being written in the MSP airport. Storms shut down all departures and landings for over 1 hour so all flights the remainder of the evening are messed up, including mine. ... [Published PorkNetwork - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Drought, Agriculture

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

US Department of Agriculture

Lower Q1 live swine imports

USDA: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook | Updated: 05/17/2013Resize textFirst-quarter U.S. imports of live swine from Canada, at 1.3 million head, were almost 8 percent lower than in the same period last year. Lower imports are consistent with the ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 18 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, United States, Iowa State University

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Hog Outlook: Retail prices up 2.4 percent over the last 2 years

The average price of pork in grocery stores during April was $3.458 per pound. That was down 0.8 cents from March and down 0.1 cents from April 2012. Over the last two years, the retail price of pork has increased 2.4 percent. The cost of raising hogs ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 17 2013]

Entities: Corn, Zumbrota (United States), Futures Contract, US Department of Agriculture, Futures

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Ag markets decidedly mixed on Friday morning

The equity and U.S. dollar markets proved quite strong again Friday, but commodity traders seemed to pay more attention to the negative demand aspects of the greenback rally than to the economic strength implied by stock gains. As for corn, persistent ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 17 2013]

Entities: Futures, Soybean, Corn, Wheat, Stringency

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

2014 Farm Bill: Are we near an agreement?

Payment limitations in the Senate Bill specify that no payments from commodity programs go to anyone with an adjusted gross income of more than $750,000, and that payments cannot exceed $50,000 per entity. The House replaces the two income limitation ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 17 2013]

Entities: Gross Income, Means Test, Vegetables, Fruit, Commodities

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Weather report: Northern Texas recovering after tornado outbreak

In the West, temperatures are making the transition to below-normal levels in the northern Rockies, northern Great Basin, and Pacific Coast States, but warmth continues farther east. Dry weather continues to promote fieldwork in most areas, although showers ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 16 2013]

Entities: Tornado, High Plains Corporation, Mississippi, Corn

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Lower feed costs to drive pork production higher in 2014

USDA: Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Outlook | Updated: 05/16/2013Resize textThe significant reductions in corn and soybean meal prices that USDA expects from larger 2013-2014 crops, should translate into welcome reductions in pork production costs in 2014. ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 16 2013]

Entities: US Department of Agriculture, Soybean Meal, Litter, Livestock, Corn

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Senate committee to consider ag workers, E-verify next week

The Senate Judiciary Committee continues its review of the immigration reform bill and 300 amendments to it, with provisions related to the fresh produce industry likely to be discussed the week of May 20.Robert Guenther, vice president for public policy ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 16 2013]

Entities: Patrick Leahy, Workers, Nonimmigrant Visa, United Fresh Produce Association

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

U.S. Pork exports down 25 percent

U.S. pork exports dropped by 25 percent this week after rebounding the week before.The USDA reported in its weekly U.S. Export Sales report pork net sales of 7,200 MT for 2013, which is down 25 percent from last week’s report for 9,600 MT.Primary destinations ... [Published PorkNetwork - May 16 2013]

Entities: United States, Futures, Mexico, South Korea

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"It's going to be slow going. Already the west is seeing 1.0 to 1.5 inches in a widespread area, and that will spread into the eastern Midwest early this week" said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring

Corn planting pace turns from record slow to record fast [Published PorkNetwork - 14 hours ago]

The study, "Amino acid digestibility and concentration of digestible and metabolizable energy in copra meal, palm kernel expellers, and palm kernel meal fed to growing pigs" was published in the Journal of Animal Science and was co-authored by Won Seok Ju, a former visiting scholar in the Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory...

Establishing nutritional value in copra, palm products for pigs [Published PorkNetwork - May 15 2013]

"ACRE can provide large payments if yields or prices should be very low" Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt said. "Thus, it can provide considerable protection under low-revenue situations."

Farmers face deadline to choose ACRE as revenue-protection plan [Published PorkNetwork - May 15 2013]

"We know our customers love McRib and we won't disappoint them" McDonald s spokeswoman Danya Proud said. "It will be returning."

Will Burger King’s rib sandwich be a McRib-buster? [Published PorkNetwork - May 15 2013]

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