Canada has been very successful in exporting large quantities of just about everything they raise - we know about their cattle - however, the more Canadian farmers have exported, the lower their prices. To the editor: Through the 1970s, 80s, 90s the economic, banking, and government experts told American farmers that agriculture's financial future lay in raising crops for export. conference was organized by a number of American and European agricultural and trade organizations, including...

Many pork processing plants in Iowa have large Hispanic work forces and some hog producers hire immigrants to work on their farms, she said. In an interview after the meeting, Appell said the council's directors decided to take on the immigration issue because hog producers and pork processors need a reliable source of labor. DesMoinesRegister.com Home::Business. Three days after the raid, Swift workers said that the number of hogs processed at the Marshalltown plant was down a third -...

Smithfield Foods is living high on the hog, with improving meat sales leading the company to report soaring profit in its fourth quarter, but it needs to raise prices to keep up with escalating costs, especially for feed. Since President Bush highlighted the importance of ethanol and other alternative fuels in his January 2006 State of the Union address, the price for corn and other grains has skyrocketed, pushing up the cost of feed used by the poultry and meat industries. Smithfield...

Maple Leaf Foods plans to shut down yet another of its pork processing plants as part of its restructure plan to exit the pig production and pork export business. Last year Maple Leaf, Canada s largest food processor, began to restructure its operations to move away from the unprofitable pig production and pork export business and focus on higher-end meat processing. The company also completed the previously announced closure of its primary pork processing operations in Saskatoon, which...

Department of Agriculture's national hog report weighted average price Friday afternoon was shown at $72. In other news this week, the USDA reported pork export sales for April down from a year ago for a third consecutive month, which put the year-to-date figure slightly below a year ago as well. Market analysts and meat distributors said buying interest from retailers for Independence Day holiday promotions and fill-in orders for the second half of June contributed to the strength in...