…ever recorded, with total supplies of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and turkey reaching close to 223 pounds per person. The biggest driving factor behind the projection is the forecasted increase…
New York Times: How NAFTA Shapes Beer, Bacon and Blue Jeans Trade
…World Trade rules, neither the U.S. nor Canada charges a tariff on imported pork. But, U.S. pork would face a tariff of 20 percent when moving into Mexico. Finally, blue…
NPPC Commends USDA for Maintaining Essential Livestock Market Programs
…Food Safety Carmen Rottenberg,” said NPPC President Ken Maschhoff, a pork producer from Carlyle, Illinois. “Inspection and market news reporting are essential to the proper functioning of responsible commerce in…
Agri View: Withdrawing from NAFTA
…jobs would dry up in the food and agriculture industries. The Gross Domestic Product would fall as much as 13 billion dollars from the farm sector alone. U.S. pork production…
NPPC: Mexico Pork Exports Rule Maintains Good Trade Relationship
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) says allowing Mexico to export pork to the U.S. is a sign of good trade relations. The Department of Agriculture last week finalized a…
Latest WASDE Report from USDA
…Oceania. No change is made to exports. Pork exports for 2017 are raised reflecting the pace of trade to date but no change is made to pork imports. Broiler imports…
November 2017 Pork Exports Set Value Record
Pork exports in November of last year set the highest-ever monthly value record, while beef export value took another step toward a likely full-year value record. November pork exports totaled…
Livestock Outlook Positive for 2018
…up a grading system similar to beef. He adds, “Beef product, compared to pork and chicken, has improved dramatically. Pork wants to have grading guidelines like beef to improve their…
U.S. Pork Farmers Get Outstanding Return on Checkoff Investment
…pork farmers who took part in the November survey acknowledge their overwhelming support of the pork checkoff, knocking opposition levels down to just three percent. The National Pork Board commissions…
Agri View: Hog Farming
…talks about hog farming in today’s Agri View. Raising hogs is hard work. Everett checks out what the new Guest Worker Program may do for hog farming and pork production….
Demand Supporting Hog Prices
…of 2018 and by near four percent in the last-half of 2018. The theme for the pork market in 2017 was higher production and higher prices when pork production rose…
Agri View: Meat Exports
Everett Griner talks about 2018 meat exports in today’s Agri View. Everett gives us the numbers for what beef, pork, and poultry exports are projected to be for this year….
Lucky Foods to Ring in the New Year
…tradition, eating pork and sauerkraut brings good luck in the New Year. In the Southern U.S., it is believed that eating black-eyed peas, ham hocks, and collard greens or cabbage…
Beef and Pork Production Hit Record High Numbers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says domestic red meat, beef, and pork production all hit new monthly highs in November. In fact, for the first 11 months of 2017, red…