Formerly a net importer of pork, the US swine sector's export-led transformation has become a key source of value added for American hog producers.

An 11% spread between high and low crop yield estimates leads to 122% difference in closing US inventories, creating scope for volatility. With inventories set to triple, the trend is down or flat, depending on the harvest outcome.

Profitability is good, inventories broke their 2007 record and imports are down, at least until the next round of official intervention sinks supply below demand.

Government protected and more expensive than pork, Canada's broiler sector resembles the US market on the demand side but has completely different supply side characteristics.

A good year, but with a looming need to bring costs under control before ASEAN's looming 2015 trade integration.

Record harvests, tightening liquidity put downward pressure on prices that only China stands to counteract.

A mixed but positive export performance helps offset a drought-induced slaughter's deflation, promising better days ahead for Australia's beef cattle industry.

China's falling broiler population has brought soy below US$13/bushel. World inventories and tightening monetary policies imply that there could be further deflation ahead.

Feed wheat is becoming scarce, meat consumption is outracing crop yields and soy crushing capacity cannot keep up.

Human ingenuity will probably find a way to get around fishmeal shortages, but not without differentiating once commodity fish into distinct product quality levels.

Progress is being made, but the sector remains decades away from recapturing self-sufficiency in ready-to-drink milk.

Brazil's poultry industry is still growing slightly faster than America's but the impact of its growth deceleration is finally starting to be felt. From 2001 to 2008, Brazil's broiler output and exports jumped at annual rates of 7.1% and 16.2% respectively. However, in the five years from 2009 to the end of 2013, output only increased at an average rate of 4% per annum and exports by 3.3%.

America's market share has fallen but North and South America's collective market position is stronger than ever.

How H7N9 avian influenza and still unidentified hog diseases upended the country's cyclical price and meat consumption trends.

Rising productivity, expanding meat demand and a wave of export-oriented foreign investment are turning around the Philippine corn sector's terms of trade.

Accounting for over half the world's swine, China's swine sector is faced with years of challenges from scarce contaminated feed, painful consolidation and perverse government policies.

With ASEAN's 2015 economic integration looming, Philippine pork producers try remedy their own shortcomings.

No longer boosted by a cheap currency, Canadian pork export growth has slowed down but low costs will preserve its market share.

Accounting for over half the world's swine, China's swine sector is faced with years of challenges from scarce contaminated feed, painful consolidation and perverse government policies.

Exports are diversifying as domestic consumption takes over demand growth.

Drought and high feed costs set new price records and it will be up to America to bridge the supply gap.

The country is turning into an important dairy mass market. Will it remain 99% supplied by imports or become a domestic producer and ASEAN export platform?

Slack Chinese demand today, a small US soy crop in six months, and a long term price forecast.

Strong feed demand depleted a very poor harvest, making imports necessary for the first time in US history. What happens when a corn exporting superpower removes a competitor's supplies from the market and meat demand refuses to budge?

We warned supplies were tighter than corn's price direction implied, that China would get the urge to import more or Argentina was primed to disappoint supply optimists. Well, here it comes.

How Indian feed wheat, America's drought and Brazil's corn harvest upended recent South Korean feed grain sourcing decisions.

Think like a feed miller, behave like an ethanol maker and you will understand why corn markets are poised to tighten up.

Prices are sagging but fundamentals are tight and China's livestock are running short of feed grain.

A fast food multinational tries to pass its share of the blame on to Liuhe Group. Behind the scenes, an outdated contract farming model is begging to be replaced by vertical integration.

Exports need to be ramped up to counterbalance any future imports. New biosafety measures will play a key role.