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...The US meatpacking industry slaughtered 33.6m head of cattle, 130m hogs and 9bn broiler chickens last year, according to the US Department of Agriculture....
...The head of meatpacking company Tyson Foods has warned the “threat is real” that African swine fever could enter the US for the first time, a nightmare scenario for pork exporters....
...The disease will cut China’s pig inventory by 13 per cent to 374m head by the end of the year, according to the US Department of Agriculture....
...Strip away the gee-whizz research that hogs many of the headlines (a computer that can beat humans at Go!) and the technology is at a rudimentary stage....
...Earlier this year the company sold its US pork business, including two packing houses, five feed mills and four hog farms, to JBS of Brazil for $1.45bn....
...Lack of competition leads to higher costs for the trading community,” says Isaac Chang, global head of fixed income at trading group KCG....
...The 95m head of cattle on US farms is the lowest population since records began in 1973. Lean hogs futures also broke records this year, as a piglet-killing virus swept through farms....
...China’s hard-pressed property developers are responding to a housing market downturn by parking their bulldozers and turning to a variety of new businesses ranging from hog farming to solar panels to online...
...He had lost his temper and deliberately driven a 17 tonne lorry over Mr Allen’s head. It is a striking juxtaposition....
...Mr Dash added that Bloomberg has no plans to change the methodology of the index or its 22 components, which include Brent crude oil, lean hogs and zinc....
...Cotton had a 27.5 per cent share of the global fibre market last year, from a historical norm of about 40 per cent, according to Cotton Inc, a US industry body....
...financial crisis has fuelled a huge expansion of organised crime in Europe with 3,600 criminal syndicates now active across the continent, profiting even from such prosaic products as household detergents, the head...
...“Smithfield might be the first acquisition of a major food and agricultural company, but I doubt it will be the last,” Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic senator from Michigan who heads the powerful agriculture...
...New York-listed Smithfield’s hog production segment, which sold 15.8m head of swine last year, suffered lower gross profit margins as raw materials prices rose in the fiscal year ended in April....
...The stereotype of Harley-Davidson motorcycle owners – or hogs – has been of bulky, white men over the age of 40, with even bulkier two-wheelers....
...A research scientist at Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley robot developer, her etiquette lessons are basic − move to the left of a corridor when someone is approaching from the right, don’t hog the centre...
...In the US, the largest exporter of pork and third-largest of beef, the 64.3m-head swine and 92.6m-head cattle populations were each 1 per cent lower than a year ago, with the cattle herd the smallest since...
...In 2006, the Hells Angels filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney films over concerns that the comedy film Wild Hogs used the Hells Angels name and membership images in its script....
...The market is venturing into commodities with hogs, futures on single stocks and futures of the three-year Korean treasury bond....
...Francisco Blanch, head of global commodities research at Banc of America Merrill Lynch, said that, following the bursting of the credit bubble and collapse in worldwide economic activity, capacity utilisation...
...America’s “A Horse with No Name” might have been among them, and Neil Young’s “Unknown Legend” was hard to get out of my head (“Somewhere on a desert highway/She rides a Harley-Davidson/Her long blonde hair...
...Jerome Drouin, head of commodity indices at Credit Suisse said: “Clients are trying to diversify their counterparty risk”....
...A former hog trader, the CME chairman retains the air of a straight-talking dealmaker....
...He also points to lower prices for lean hogs and feeder cattle, which have already fallen between 10 and 5 per cent from recent peaks....
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