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More Packers To Stop Taking Zilmax-Fed Cattle
2013-08-26 18:13:00| Beef
Steve Kay, Cattle Buyers Weekly Big Four packers to adopt policies against buying Zilmax-fed cattle. Zilmax is a beta-agonist that raises efficiency and promotes weight gan in cattle at the end of their finishing period. read more
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What's The Future For Northern Beef Packers?
2013-07-22 00:35:48| Beef
The old saying, A day late and a dollar short, might apply to the South Dakota beef industry these days. BEEF Daily read more
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Producers, Packers Happy with Better Margins
2013-06-24 22:25:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA We finally have some good news on the hog price front. Last weeks Iowa-Minnesota direct, national base carcass and national net carcass prices all averaged over $100/cwt., carcass, with the net price nearing $103/cwt. read more
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Packers Hold Steady
2013-06-15 21:33:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics Inc., Adel, IA Moderate growth in sow herd, average litter size would test weekly limits. One year ago, it appeared that packing capacity would become a real issue in the fall of 2013. The concern was well-founded, as producers were expanding the breeding herd by roughly 1% and average litter size was growing at a rate of about 2% per year. The combination suggested that U.S. hog slaughter could grow by more than 3%, year on year, by late 2013. With hog slaughter already headed toward a new quarterly record of 30.433 million head in fourth-quarter 2013, the prospect of pushing 3% more hogs through the current packing sector looked daunting. Then the worst drought in 50 years came knocking. Plans to grow the breeding herd and improve litter size slowed. Slaughter levels in fourth-quarter 2013 will likely be lower than last year. But questions about packer capacity loom. read more
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Amended M-COOL Rules Could Harm US Producers, Processors, Packers & Retailers
2013-06-07 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The president of the National Pork Producers Council says new US Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling rules will create logistical issues for American pork producers, processors and packers and retailers and will harm the US pork industry, Bruce Cochrane writes.
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