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Saturday, July 19, 2014
 
TOP STORY
Good times, bad times and great uncertainty in America's swine sector
Hog rearing, pork processing returns at record highs amid devastated farm inventories and much guesswork over actual output.

It has been the best and worst of times for American swine producers.
 
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MARKET REPORTS
Subdued demand holds China lysine prices flat
  Although one producer lifted price quotes and announced its production halt in July, lysine prices stayed flat as other producers held prices unchanged amid subdued demand. As soymeal prices continued to slide while hog prices stayed soft, feed millers and traders withheld lysine purchases of late.
Increased supply, lukewarm demand soften China methionine prices
  Traders and feed millers withheld purchases while poultry markets remained sluggish. Meanwhile, the availability of methionine increased as more shipments arrived of late. Together, higher supply and slack demand dragged down the prices of methionine, which showed signs of stabilising earlier.
China Live Hog Weekly: Prices rebound considerably on limited availability
China Feed Market Monthly Review: Production growth slows; China H1 feed output shrinks
China Broiler Weekly: Markets stay soft
China Whey Weekly: Prices consolidate lower
China Soymeal Weekly: Buyers withhold buying in view of weaker prices
Thai shrimp prices stable while NCPO support shrimp industry with US$ 3.0 million
Thai chicken prices stable while Thai-EU FTA delays affect future chicken exports
Vietnam's shrimp production rose 20.8% during first half of 2014
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NEWS
INDUSTRY
Tianshan to acquire Australia's Minjah Pastoral for US$23.58 million
  Xinjiang Tianshan Animal Husbandry Bio-engineering Co., Ltd. plans to acquire Australia's Minjah Pastoral Company for AUD25.25 million (US$23.58 million).
Farms supplying turkey to Cargillto stop using growth-promoting antibiotics
JBS Foods acquires assets from Ceu Azul
Ukraine-based MHP poultry production and exports up in H1
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FEED
EU pushes back introduction of 100% organic feed to 2017
  Organic meat producers are allowed to mix a maximum of 5% non-organic protein raw materials in animal diets until 2017, with the European Union extending the introduction of 100% organic raw materials in organic pig and poultry feed to 2017.
Evonik secures financing to build lysine plant in Russia
Miratorg's feed mill to produce 340,000 tonnes per year
Peru's fishmeal and fish oil exports expected to be close to 2013
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LIVESTOCK
US tops Japan as Australia's biggest beef export market
  The United States has surpassed Japan as the country's single largest beef export market, even while Australia's cattle numbers are almost at their lowest in 20 years, ABC reports.
Report: global poultry production to rise in next nine years
PED in Japan spurs pork imports from Europe and Mexico
US researchers compare effectiveness of recombinant IBD vaccines
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FOOD
US lobby group threatens Argentina's beef exports
  As the deadline for compensation for Argentina's 2001 default nears, a new lobby group is taking it out on the country's beef exports, claiming disease concerns, Bloomberg reports.
FAO predicts worldwide production shift from grain to meat
Dairy milk product market likely to see 25% growth by 2019-20
Germany's sausage-makers fined for price-fixing
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CROP
USDA rate US corn, soy crop conditions best in 20 years
  USDA said in a report that conditions ratings for the country's corn and soy crops are their best since 1994, Reuters reported.
US could achieve urea self-sufficiency by 2017: Rabobank
Oil World revises up outlook for EU Rapeseed production
China's summer grain output hits record high in 2014
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