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The beef carcass value continues to appreciate, motivating packers to own large live cattle inventories.
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The U.S. is refusing to resume trade
negotiations with China until Beijing comes up with a concrete proposal
to address Washington's complaints about forced technology transfers
and other economic issues, said officials on both sides of the Pacific.
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The United States has lifted
restrictions on some imports of fresh and frozen pork from Poland,
specifically from facilities that are in contiguous areas free of the
highly contagious hog disease African swine fever, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture said Thursday.
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2) | A scorching drought in Canada's heartland that made grass worthless for feed is causing farmers to consider culling as much as 20% of the national cattle herd before winter in a "heartbreaking" nationwide effort. |
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China reported a new African swine
fever outbreak in the province of Guizhou on Thursday. The new case, the
first confirmed in the southwestern province, was found on a small farm
with 10 pigs in Biji city, Guizhou, the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs said in a statement published on its website.
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The pork carcass value continues to soften in the face of mounting market hog supplies.
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Japan found African swine fever in
packed pork sausage being carried into the country by a foreigner coming
from Beijing early this month, the nation's agriculture ministry said
on Tuesday.
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The latest monthly trade data has
been tabulated -- for August -- and U.S. beef trade continued its
impressive performance with monthly exports up 9% and year-to-date
export totals up 14.2% year over year.
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OTHER MARKET SENSITIVE NEWS
CATTLE:(Cargill) -- Cargill has developed an
industry-first robotic cattle driver aimed at improving animal welfare
and employee safety. The robots are designed into move cattle from pens
to the harvest area, reducing stress to the animals by minimizing their
proximity to human activity.
Employees operate the robots from a catwalk
located above the pens, reducing safety risks by keeping those who work
in the cattle yard portion of processing plants at a greater distance
from the 1300-pound animals.
"The robotic cattle driver developed by Cargill
is a major innovation in the handling and welfare of farm animals," said
Temple Grandin, professor of Animal Sciences at Colorado State
University. "This device will lead to huge strides in employee safety
while moving large animals and reduce the stress on cattle across the
country."
Cargill Protein spent two years developing the
prototype, with significant input from animal welfare experts including
Grandin, beef plant employees and engineers from equipment supplier
Flock Free.
Using waving automated arms, blowers and audio recordings to
move cattle in a desired direction, the robots can operate in rain,
snow or mud, with no delay in daily operations. Testing was conducted at
Cargill's Wyalusing, Penn., and Schuyler, Neb., beef processing
facilities to determine a design and operational attributes of the robot
that would effectively improve animal welfare and employee safety
before being implemented at the company's U.S. and Canadian beef plants.
"The average bovine weighs almost three quarters
of a ton, and our plant processes several thousand head of cattle
daily," said Sammy Renteria, general manager of the Cargill beef plant
in Schuyler, Neb. "This innovation provides a much safer workplace for
our employees and allows them to develop new technology expertise as
they manage and operate the robot."
The robotic cattle drivers are currently being
implemented at Cargill Protein beef plants in the U.S. and Canada. They
are manufactured by the New Jersey-based company Flock Free. Cargill
believes the robotic cattle driver has multiple applications for
improving animal handling and worker safety across livestock and poultry
supply chains and is working toward making them available for use
throughout the industry.
HOGS:(WNAX)-- National Pork Producers Council
officials while pleased with the recent USMCA trade agreement like
Canada and Mexico want to see the U.S. lift steel and aluminum tariffs
on those countries. NPPC's Dave Warner says that will help make the
USMCA work better. He says that would mainly help with U.S. pork trade
to Mexico.
He says the overall remake of NAFTA through the new USMCA kept all the previous ag benefits to the U.S. and pork roughly intact.
Warner says building off USMCA, America's trade
negotiators can now move ahead with a bilateral deal with Japan and
possibly even the Philippines which is a huge potential market for
American pork.
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