Summary Box: Smithfield Foods 3rd quarter results RECOVERY: Smithfield Foods Inc., the nation's largest hog producer and pork processor, reported a profit in its third quarter after more than a year of losses. CHALLENGE: Meat companies are beginning to recover after a ...
DILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Smithfield Food products are on display at the Ukrops store in Richmond, Va. Meat processor Smithfield Foods returned to a profit in the third quarter Thursday, March 11, 2010, partly due to strength ...
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Pork producers attending their annual meeting here are looking for China to be the next major market to open fully to U.S. pork following word this week that certificate problems with Russia have been solved and exports could ...
Russia has agreed to reopen its market to US pork products after restrictions for more than a year, US officials said Friday. Russia imposed the ban in December 2009, saying the products had not met Moscow's food safety regulations. Talks between the ...
<div id="subtitle">US pork producers say customers shouldn't fear catching swine flu from eating pork</div><div><p>U.S. pork producers, responding to a swine flu outbreak that has escalated into a public health emergency, said Sunday their product is safe and that consumers cannot catch the ...
<div><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p>The globalization of agriculture has expanded market opportunities for North American livestock producers. With the globalization of agriculture, the risk of animal disease outbreaks has heightened through the increased volume of animal transactions occurring in North America. The 1997 outbreak of classical ...
<div><p>INTRODUCTION</p><p>There are approximately one billion domesticated pigs in the world (FAO, 2002), with the United States, Canada, Brazil, and China as the largest swine producers. Major swine importing countries include Japan, Mexico, and Russia (USDA-FAS, 2005). Some of these countries require traceability ...
<div id="subtitle">US slams Russia's decision to ban meat imports, says eating meat does not produce swine flu</div><div><p>Russia widened a ban Tuesday on meat imports from Mexico and some U.S. states, prompting objections from the United States, which noted that eating meat has ...
<div><p>The United States Tuesday warned trade partners against erecting barriers to US products amid the spreading global swine flu outbreak, saying pork meat does not transmit the virus.</p><p>"The American food supply is safe," US Trade Representative Ron Kirk and the head of ...
<div><p>US officials said Tuesday they were reviewing whether to change the name of the "swine flu" outbreak, complaining that a slew of countries were misguidedly banning pork exports from North America.</p><p>"This is not a food-borne crisis. It's important to not refer to ...
