Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures rose on Friday after wholesale pork prices shrugged off pre-holiday losses ahead of U.S. Independence Day, analysts and traders said. CME hogs finished up 0.69 […] Read more
Pork price rebound lifts U.S. hog futures
Piglet virus spreads to North Carolina’s hog farms
A swine virus deadly to piglets has been discovered on two hog farms in North Carolina, an official in the No. 2 hog-producing U.S. state said Tuesday. Porcine epidemic diarrhea […] Read more
U.S. live cattle, hog futures gain before holiday
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures gained modestly before the U.S. Independence Day holiday supported by higher wholesale beef prices, analysts and traders said. CME livestock markets closed at noon […] Read more
U.S. hog futures slide with pork prices
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures on Tuesday slid for a third straight session as lower wholesale pork values stirred profit taking, traders and analysts said. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […] Read more
U.S. hog herd holds steady, pigs per litter set record
The U.S. hog herd in the latest quarter was mostly steady with a year earlier, a U.S. government report showed on Friday, and down slightly from trade forecasts. However, producers […] Read more
Profit-taking, cheap corn sink U.S. hog futures
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures dropped on Friday pressured by profit taking and sharply lower Chicago Board of Trade corn futures, traders and analysts said. CBOT corn spiraled downward in […] Read more
Record-high pork prices drive up U.S. hog futures
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hog futures climbed on Thursday as pork prices remained historically high, traders and analysts said. Thursday morning’s U.S. Department of Agriculture mandatory wholesale pork price report, or […] Read more
Fund buying boosts U.S. live cattle futures
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle climbed on Wednesday with help from fund buying, traders and analysts said. CME live cattle August led advances. Spread traders bought August and sold spot-June […] Read more
Lower cash prices weaken U.S. hog futures
Chicago Mercantile Exchange hogs dropped Tuesday as lower cash prices stirred profit-taking, traders and analysts said. They said anticipation of wholesale pork prices about to top out contributed to CME […] Read more
U.S. hog futures climb on discount to cash
Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hogs gained Monday, driven by futures’ discount to the exchange’s cash hog index which was at US104.23 cents, traders and analysts said. CME July hogs settled […] Read more