Purdue ag economist Chris Hurt says while export demand will continue, the marketing margin benefit may not last, and pork profitability will be challenged to remain in the black over the next 12 months. With high prices for corn and soybean meal, profitability will be challenged in the coming months. Hurt says prices should be strong through August, based on the futures market, but may drop into the fall period. Hurt: Pork Margins Stay in the Black Thursday, May 24, 2007 There has been...

Rabobank International predicts it will become increasingly challenging for the Canadian Pork industry to maintain its export markets but there are still opportunities. A combination of factors, including the increasing value of the Canadian dollar and rising feed grain costs, have made it increasingly difficult for Canadian pork exporters to compete on the international market. Rabobank International executive director food and agribusiness research Fiona Boal predicts a slight reduction...

Export growth has contributed greatly to the profitability of hog production during the last few years by reducing the pork supply on the domestic market. pork exports during April totaled 224. So, it is not surprising that less pork is being shipped south. Fortunately, the biggest foreign buyer of pork, Japan, purchased 12. imports of pork during April were up 7. The number of live hogs imported from Canada during the first 4 months of this year was up 9. Canadian hog slaughter has been...

More conventionally, pork is used in many of the most famous dishes in Chinese cuisine moo shu pork, twice cooked pork, sweet and sour pork, steamed pork buns, even home-style tofu, which often has as much pork as bean curd. But it isn't tender feelings for swine that caused Wang Bin, a retired export company worker, to start replacing pork with vegetables, chicken and fish as the mainstays of her family's diet. Like hundreds of millions of other Chinese, she's simply feeling the pinch of...

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