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Friday, November 28, 2014
America's red meat sectors: Great profit margins, but boxed in
Why US hog and beef cattle farmers cannot take advantage of record high prices, falling feed costs and healthy returns. After decades of prices trailing inflation and slack fundamentals, the tide has turned for American red meat producers.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Diamond V appoints new members to North America dairy team
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
A glut of oilseeds: America's soy cornucopia, tropical oils to tip market balance
Soy is not just in oversupply; it faces intensifying competition from oilseed alternatives such as palm oil and rape seed. While corn's deflation is (barring a liquidity crisis) currently bottoming out near US$3/bushel, oilseeds appear to h ...
Friday, October 3, 2014
America's dairy sector falls back to earth
Its large domestic market stayed buoyant in the face of crashing world prices, but will not do so for much longer. A major exporter, yet domestically oriented and self-contained, America's avoided most of the past year's global dairy market ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Canadians pay more for dairy, poultry than Americans do
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Monday, September 8, 2014
Chasing greener pastures: Frustrating days for American beef cattle
Cattle markets, pastureland weather and industry restructuring trends are working at cross purposes to one other. This is undermining what should be a year of record profits and moving the industry northwards. American beef cattle farmers a ...
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Cobb-Vantress appoints new member to North American service team
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
America's perfect feed crop growing year?
Excellent weather, record crop yields imply looming oversupplies of corn and soy. Harvest time will be deflationary but higher costs for land, fertilizer and fuel have jacked up price floors. As this article's title says, barring any unexpe ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014
America's broiler producers fly high
Output and exports are flat but rising domestic demand, higher prices, low feed costs and falling inventories make US broilers among the most profitable of the world's poultry industries. The red meat sector's misfortunes are proving very f ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Good times, bad times and great uncertainty in America's swine sector
Hog rearing, pork processing returns at record highs amid devastated farm inventories and much guesswork over actual output. It has been the best and worst of times for American swine producers. While the ongoing PEDv epidemic wiped out the ...
Thursday, June 12, 2014
BASF announces investments and new products for North American agriculture
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014
EU to test live pigs imported from North America for PED
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Fonterra and Nestle realign decade-long Latin American joint venture
Fonterra and Nestle have realigned their 10-year old Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) 50/50 joint venture, resulting in ownership changes to DPA Brazil, DPA Venezuela, DPA Ecuador and DPA's milk powder business . Fonterra will take a 51% contr ...
Monday, May 5, 2014
Zinpro promotes Jose Mendes to regional manager - South America
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Stalled, but profitable: America's swine sector tops out
Amid a PEDv epidemic, high prices and falling feed costs, returns are high as output and exports top out. America's swine sector finds itself beset by both hope and challenges. Hog numbers have taken a hit and exports are stagnant, but at l ...

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