Ag Policy
August pork export volume was down 1% from last year at 182,372 mt, while export value fell 3% to $494.1 million.
USDA reports live hog prices in January and February averaged below $40 for the first time in over a decade, says Chris Hurt, Purdue University.
Mississippi lawmakers have real fears about “fake meat,” and the state could become the latest to ban food made from plants, insects, or grown in a lab from being described as meat.
As the fifth hog nuisance lawsuit against Murphy Brown LLC, a subsidiary owned by Smithfield Foods, finished closing arguments this week, an appeals court in Virginia received an amicus brief for the first lawsuit.
The U.S. is well positioned to help fill any additional need that China has for pork, said Joe Schuele, U.S. Meat Export Federation, “but we’d be in a lot better position if we weren’t facing a tariff that’s five times higher than everybody else.”
Pork producers urge Congress to step up efforts to keep ASF from entering U.S. ports.
African swine fever has now spread to all parts of China.
For several weeks, farmers have been debating amongst each other the virtue of taking a Market Facilitation Program payment.
Trump abruptly escalated his trade war with China
After months of uncertainty and murky details, the agency announced per acre payments will vary by county but will range from $15 to $150.
USDA on Thursday provided more details on the 2019 Market Facilitation Program. We compiled answers to frequently asked questions.
Pork exports in May were steady with last year’s pace, while value increased 1% to $567.8 million – the highest monthly value total since April 2018.
At the Latin American Product Showcase, more than 60 USMEF exporting member companies participated, displaying and promoting U.S. beef, pork and lamb products. The event attracted more than 190 buyers from 23 countries.
Inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1, 2019, was 75.5 million head, up 4% from June 1, 2018, and up 1% from March 1, 2019. This is highest June 1 inventory since estimates began in 1964.
Taiwan is a rapidly growing market for U.S. pork and beef—
Report calls for hog farm moratorium, new permit system
Shoot, trap, pressure and push, but the march of wild pigs continues across the United States. However, a chemical cavalry is approaching and may provide a major weapon in the control arsenal used by landowners and farmers: Kill the ultimate beast of survival with a poison pill?
Chicken growers would have had more leverage in antitrust claims against big agriculture. Now they feel betrayed.
“NAFTA has been a resounding success, and we don’t want to go backwards,” said Nick Giordano, vice president and counsel, global government affairs, for the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). He said losing access to the Mexican and Canadian markets for pork would be a “huge financial problem.”
Lawsuit challenges cancellation of farmer fair practice rule
Soy agreement is latest China-U.S. agreement in 100-day round.
Agriculture industry hopes Trump administration doesn’t forget about exports when making America great.
Animal activists gained a foothold in Massachusetts on Tuesday night.
The nation’s only ban on hogs owned by meatpackers was expected to end after Nebraska lawmakers voted Friday to repeal a state law designed to keep large processors from exerting too much leverage over small farms.
Total red meat production for 2013 and 2014 is down from December estimates.
Food, agricultural and allied industry groups yesterday urged the parties involved in a labor dispute that’s affecting food exports that ship out of West Coast ports to resolve their differences as soon as possible.
As corn futures plunged after USDA reported surprisingly high stocks, analysts wondered what livestock and poultry have been eating in place of corn.
North Carolina’s new water quality requirements for large hog farms will not take effect this year as intended under the state Senate’s proposed budget plan. A one-year delay is needed, budget writers say.
U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) Economist Erin Borror says recent trade developments with Japan, Mexico and Canada, are very important breakthroughs for the U.S. red meat industry.
“The safeguard trigger is obviously not good,” says Gerardo Rodriguez, USMEF regional marketing director. “But this is a result of more interest in finding U.S. pork in Panama.”