Livestock
28Feb

Sahlen Packing Company, Inc. Recalls 13,000 Pounds of Deli Ham

Sahlen Packing Company, Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., recalled 13,224 pounds of ready-to-eat deli ham products that may be contaminated with plastic, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Tuesday. This is on the heels of a Bellisio Foods recall announced Saturday. The deli ham items were produced on January 25. The following products are subject to recall: Varying weights of whole hams sliced and sold by weight at retail deli counters containing “Market 32 by Price Chopper Black Forest...

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25Feb

January 1 Cattle On Feed Up 2%

Cattle and calves on feed for the slaughter market in the United States for feedlots with capacity of 1,000 or more head totaled 11.7 million head on Jan. 1, 2019. The inventory was 2% above Jan. 1, 2018, USDA reported Friday. Marketing of fed cattle during December totaled 1.74 million, 1% lower than the same month in 2017. Placements of cattle on feed during December totaled 1.77 million head, 2% below 2017. The on feed inventory included 7.28 million steers and steer calves,...

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21Feb

USDA: Soybean Plantings Will Decline, Corn Will Rise in 2019

During its 2019 Agricultural Outlook Forum officials announced their planting expectations for this year. USDA predicts U.S. corn plantings for this year will be 92 million acres. That's up 3.3% from a year ago. Soybeans are forecast to fall to 85 million acres. That's down 4.7% from last year. USDA Chief Economist Rob Johansson made the announcement Thursday morning during remarks at the USDA Outlook Forum held near Washington, DC. Wheat acres are also expected to be down...

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19Feb

African Swine Fever Confirmed in Vietnam

The first confirmed cases of African swine fever (ASF) have been detected on three farms in Vietnam, authorities said on Tuesday. All pigs were culled at these farms located in Hung Yen and Thai Binh provinces, southeast of the capital Hanoi, said the Animal Health Department. Pork is a major staple and accounts for 75% of the total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million people where most of its 30 million farm-raised pigs are consumed domestically. Because pork is such...

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05Feb

Exports in 2019: Bigger Risk, Bigger Reward?

As per capita animal protein consumption in the U.S. soars to all-time highs in 2019, the U.S. animal protein sectors will need to increase their focus on international markets for growth. Export growth will be key for U.S. beef, pork and chicken producers as growing meat supplies and processing capacity outstrip domestic demand, according to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. This has some producers concerned because the more exports play a role in supply and demand, the more...

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