meat trade

In this episode of Feedstuffs Precision Pork, Dave Bauer, senior market analyst for Provimi, offers some hog market perspective and market highlights for the week as well as provides things to think about in the week ahead.

The hog market saw incredible swells this week, spurred by the weather and a wild rumor of a case of African swine fever in Iowa.

Exports were 12% of weekly pork production, with Mexico leading sales, followed by Japan and then China.

Bauer recommends paying attention to the weather over the weekend as it could greatly influence the market with drought continues in some key areas.

Profitability, according to Bauer, looks to be around $65/head for the next 30 days before dipping a bit. Take a listen to find out more.

These are uncertain times, and it will pay dividends to be well-prepared. If you have questions on this week’s recap or want to discuss something not covered, feel free to ASK DAVE at David_Bauer@cargill.com

Plan today for tomorrow’s success.

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In this episode of Feedstuffs Precision Pork, Dave Bauer, senior market analyst for Provimi, offers some hog market perspective and market highlights for the week as well as provides things to think about in the week ahead.

It was another record-breaking week in the hog markets, and although the underlying fundamentals haven't changed much, the emotion moneyflow and trading volumes certainly have. Bauer explains that several futures markets encountered dynamic corrections this week, although the cash markets have not.

Bauer uses some examples from the recent correction in the lumber markets to illustrate the relationship between the futures and spot contract prices seen in the hog and grain markets.

These are uncertain times, and it will pay dividends to be well-prepared. If you have questions on this week’s recap or want to discuss something not covered, feel free to ASK DAVE at David_Bauer@cargill.com

Plan today for tomorrow’s success.

Follow Feedstuffs Precision Pork on your favorite podcast platform or find it on www.Feedstuffs.com and www.NationalHogFarmer.com

In this episode of Feedstuffs Precision Pork, Dave Bauer, senior market analyst for Provimi, offers some hog market perspective and market highlights for the week as well as provides things to think about this year.

Weekly pork exports got back on track this week. Net sales were down. Mexico led that buying, followed by Japan. China remained in the market. What’s ahead? Take a listen.

These are uncertain times, and it will pay dividends to be well-prepared. If you have questions on this week’s recap or want to discuss something not covered, feel free to ASK DAVE at David_Bauer@cargill.com

Plan today for tomorrow’s success.

Follow Feedstuffs Precision Pork on your favorite podcast platform or find it on www.Feedstuffs.com and www.NationalHogFarmer.com

In this episode of Feedstuffs Precision Pork, Dave Bauer, senior market analyst for Provimi, offers some hog market perspective and market highlights for the week as well as provides things to think about this year.

It’s time to pull out that spring checklist and start checking things off to ensure your facilities are performing at peak efficiency. In need of such a list? Just let Bauer know and he’d be glad to send such a list your way.

As for the market this week, he explains it was an odd one for exports with the U.S. Department of Agriculture making a one-time correction to balance out the books from last year. China also returned to buy pork. Take a listen, Bauer explains.

These are uncertain times and it will pay dividends to be well-prepared. If you have questions on this week’s recap or want to discuss something not covered, feel free to ASK DAVE at David_Bauer@cargill.com

Plan today for tomorrow’s success.

Follow Feedstuffs Precision Pork on your favorite podcast platform or find it on www.Feedstuffs.com and www.NationalHogFarmer.com

Dave Bauer, senior market analyst for Provimi, offers his perspective on this week's hog market and recaps the week’s highlights. He also lists some of the things to think about as you prepare for the week ahead. 

After the rally in prices over the past few months, it's not the time to relax. An opportunity has been provided for everyone from grain farmers to livestock feeders.

Hopefully as a hog producer, you've already got a great base of feed needs on the books. Now is the time to look at taking advantage of the pricing opportunities ahead that may in many respects have been gifted to producers after the past six months to a year of losses. Even if you think there are better days ahead, these are the times when prudent marketers take advantage of great opportunities. Bauer suggests being diligent in your marketing work and to make sure you're looking well out into 2021.

Weekly pork export sales are doing their part to maintain prices as total net sales set a new high watermark at 60,200 metric tons, a 52% week over week with China and Mexico leading the way with 48 and 27% of the total followed by the usual Canada, Japan and South Korea. What’s ahead? Bauer gives his thoughts on this episode of Feedstuffs Precision Pork. 

These are uncertain times and it will pay dividends to be well-prepared. If you have questions on this week’s recap or want to discuss something not covered, feel free to ASK DAVE at David_Bauer@cargill.com. Plan today for tomorrow’s success.

Follow Feedstuffs Precision Pork on your favorite podcast platform or find it on www.Feedstuffs.com and www.NationalHogFarmer.com

We welcome the Chinese government's policy on the various other nonprofit organizations that they support, and I think this is all a very positive development on the ground… [But] to reduce meat consumption is probably one of the hardest issues… The challenge we are facing today is that most of the Chinese majority don't understand animal welfare issues or rights issues.

- Pei Su

ACTAsia is a humane education nonprofit based in China. But which intervention types are most tractable in the Chinese context? And what can other advocates do to assist the work there?

After interning for several animal advocacy organizations and working for World Animal Protection, Pei Su co-founded ACTAsia, where she is now Executive Director.

Topics discussed in the episode:

• ACTAsia's role in China (2:12)
• ACTAsia's Caring For Life program (10:27) 
• The tractability of legislative and institutional change to benefit animals in China (18:13)
• Opportunities and responsibilities arising from new technologies like improved artificial intelligence (27:00)
• How animal advocates can ensure that they interact positively with the cultural and legal context in China (31:38)
• The quality of the candidates for leadership roles in animal advocacy organizations in China (37:00)
• Funding constraints and fundraising difficulties for ACTAsia (46:30)
• How talented individuals in the West can best help ACTAsia and Chinese animal advocacy organizations (52:05)
• How Chinese animal advocates can build experience (55:53)
• The use of for-profit experience compared to animal advocacy experience (1:00:02)
• ACTAsia’s expansion and interaction with advocates in other Asian countries (1:02:54)

Resources discussed in the episode:

Resources by or about ACTAsia:

• Caring for Life's page on ACTAsia's website
• Changing China Report
• ACTAsia's work training professionals
• Unbound Project’s post about Pei Su’s personal story
• Pei Su’s webinar on concepts and lessons on humane education

SI’s resources:

• Foundational questions summaries

Other resources:

• UN statistics on China’s farmed animal population (via OPP)
• The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture publicly acknowledging the concept of farmed animal welfare
• The recommendations of the Chinese Nutrition Society
• Students for High Impact Charity and “High School EA Outreach” 
• Animal Charity Evaluators’ report on the allocation of resources in the farmed animal movement
• 80,000 Hours on China specialists
• The 2016 Chinese charity law