Wednesday, 20 April 2011 09:20Written by Spencer Iowa
High prices for cattle in the United States and a drought in Mexico have cattle coming into the United States, where they are being finished in feedlots or grazed on pastures, according to analysts and USDA data. USDA data show 412,000 Mexican feeder cattle have been imported year to date, up 38-percent from a year earlier. The latest total is the most in at least six years, which is all the farther back USDA has data. The imports for March alone were up 23-percent from a year earlier. The inflow has helped offset fewer cattle here. A drought in northern Mexico contributed the increase in cattle imports, according to livestock economist Jim Robb. High prices here for feeder cattle also contributed to the increase.
Brazilian Beef & Poultry Approved For Export To China
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:00Written by Spencer Iowa
Brazil’s farm minister says China has significantly expanded the number of Brazilian beef and poultry firms that can export to it. On his return from trade talks in China, Wagner Rossi said that country added an additional 25 firms to its list of approved poultry suppliers in Brazil, taking the total to fifty. Rossi said China added five more beef suppliers to the existing three that shipped to it. He said the decision has been approved on a technical level and that it will be formally announced in coming weeks. Last week, Brazil’s president returned from China after securing the first-ever authorization for Brazilian pork to be exported to the Asian giant.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:00Written by Spencer Iowa
South Korea, on Sunday, confirmed a new case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), five days after it declared an end to the outbreak. The Ag Ministry said six pigs at a farm in the southeastern part of the country were infected and order destroyed. Officials say they are investigating the cause of the outbreak. Korea’s worst-ever outbreak of FMD has cost an estimated $2.6 billion since last November.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:00Written by Spencer Iowa
South Korea, on Sunday, confirmed a new case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), five days after it declared an end to the outbreak. The Ag Ministry said six pigs at a farm in the southeastern part of the country were infected and order destroyed. Officials say they are investigating the cause of the outbreak. Korea’s worst-ever outbreak of FMD has cost an estimated $2.6 billion since last November.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:00Written by Spencer Iowa
It looks like farmers, anxious to plant corn, will remain on the sidelines this week. DTN Ag Meteorologist Joel Burgio says a wet week ahead, following heavy weekend rains, will keep farmers pacing for the next six to ten days. Burgio says it will be cool, as well, with temperatures generally below normal. Last Monday, USDA reported 3 percent of the U.S. corn had been planted. Traders and analysts expect that figure to be 7 to 9 percent in this week’s Planting Progress report.
