The chart above takes the numbers from the weight breakdown and plots very tentative forecasts for weekly U.S. hog slaughter through the balance of the year. The first thing that jumps out are the ...

Bangkok police seize 1.8 tonnes of illegal pig carcasses, arrest owner; operation targets consumer safety and environmental health.

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Here are the six most consequential ones. Pig slaughter lines are already allowed to process as many as 1,106 hogs per hour, or roughly one pig every 3.2 seconds, while poultry operations are ...

All primals excluding the picnics are quoted higher this morning. Thursday’s federally inspected hog slaughter from USDA was estimated at 483,000 head, taking the weekly total to 1.938 million head.

Futures traders have seemingly ignored recently rising hog slaughter numbers, compared to a year ago at the same time, and a ...

Tuesday’s federally inspected hog slaughter from USDA was estimated at 487,000 head, taking the weekly total to 1.461 million head. That is up 148,000 head from the previous week and 28,853 head ...

State-run Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) said it will promptly pay for hogs that farmers will deliver under a pilot program that aims to lower pork prices. FTI President Joseph Lo also called on more hog ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday that it will invite more hog farms to participate in a direct-sourcing scheme piloted by Food Terminal, Inc. (FTI), which supplies retailers with ...

The bacon-making process begins in a seemingly sterile room where high-tech scanners provide a 360-degree analysis of each pig carcass. Only the finest cuts move forward. The meat is then sent to a ...

A state climate program helps Smithfield Foods and others profit from animal waste. Scientists and neighbors say the deal ...