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World Pork Expo This Week!
Tom, Lisa, and Michelle will be in Des Moines for the show. Lisa will be heading back to Minneapolis after the show on Thursday. Otherwise, Tom and Michelle will be there until the show ends on Friday.
Visit us in Booth 126
Visit us in Booth 126
Varied Industries Bldg
"Back to the Future"
Listen to the audio and watch the slides from Tom's keynote address at the 2009 Leman Conference.
Many thanks to Ned Arthur at Swinecast - and their sponsors! - for doing the recording and making the speech
available online. Or, you can download the printed version which
was published with the Conference Proceedings.
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MetaFarms Weekly Update
Right now it's all about Installation as Iowa Select comes on board!
Macro for Sow Productivity Index now available
Dr. Tom Stein (2010-05-01)
Rank sows with an index based on lifetime performance: born live, weaned, and farrowing interval. Customers are using the index to cull the bottom 10% of the sow herd.
Rank sows with an index based on lifetime performance: born live, weaned, and farrowing interval. Customers are using the index to cull the bottom 10% of the sow herd.
PorkNet's Daily Update
June
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Hog Futures Point to Profits
Despite the recent short-term drop, lean hog futures continue to show solid profit opportunities thru year-end. Caveats: Demand needs to hold, chicken could pressure hogs. [Daily Livestock Report/6.10.2010]
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Cull Sow Prices Forecast @ $55 to $60/cwt
Bob Evans Farms forecast cull sow costs for May 2010 thru April 2011 (their fiscal year). [Bob Evans Farms press release]8
Hog Futures Hit a 10-Week Low
A stronger dollar and some weakness in consumer spending on pork continue to put downward pressure on lean hog futures. [Bloomberg / 6.07.2010]7
Hog Profits & Losses Last 20 Years
Wild Thing? Son of Beast? El Toro? What's your favorite roller coaster? Here's my vote... "Hog Market!" [Daily Livestock Report / 6.07.2010]
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