Livestock Poor Demand Forces Major Hog Producers to Revise 2023 Goals The impact of African Swine Fever (ASF) along with poor sales has pushed China’s leading hog companies to reexamine their 2023 production targets. With the average cash price for live hogs dropping RMB .19/kg ($.01/lb.) or 1.3 percent, the average loss per marketed pig expanded by RMB 135/head ($19.62/head) or 84.4 percent, even with corn prices continuing to trend downward. The dire situation was reinforced by the corn-hog ratio, which declined again and dropped to 5.09 last week. As noted last week, domestic producers have seen their total hog inventories cut by 20 to 30 percent due to ASF and a rush to sell overweight hogs during the first quarter...
What You Need to Know Today: The corn and soybean markets closed slightly higher in low-volume trade. The wheat market was mixed, with HRW continuing its downward trek on improved moisture. As expected, the bearish cattle on feed report drove down cattle prices and pulled hogs down with it. Mi...
USDA’s monthly cattle on feed report was released today. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity amounted to 11.6 million head, 102 percent of last year. Source: USDA, WPI Placements were up, but part of that is attributable to persistent drought c...
Let’s return briefly to the fake meat hype cycle, now sitting somewhere in a dusty corner of your mind, not entirely forgotten. What happened to all those products, known as plant-based alternative proteins? They were supposed to be as good as real meat—cheaper, more environmentally...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.