In the hog industry, this same period coincided with historically high hog marketings. |
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Slaughter is expected to drop more than marketings as packing plants adjust to the strong Canadian dollar. |
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Over the medium term, slaughter hog marketings are expected to increase but not to the 2004 peak level. |
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Whenever there is a change in your livestock marketings resulting in increased inventories there will be the need for increased feed supplies. |
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Hog receipts are expected to decline by another 4 per cent, due to lower prices more than offsetting an expected increase in marketings. |
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Potato receipts are expected to rise as an increase in price should more than offset a decrease in marketings. |
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Increased average marketings of all milk, cotton, cattle, and cottonseed offset decreased marketings of peanuts, soybeans, sunflowers, and potatoes. |
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However local supplies, or marketings, are now greater than demand because of the recent labour layoffs at the Guelph Cargill plant and the resulting provincial slaughter reductions. |
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This does not include milk marketed under export contracts, sale of dairy beef, breeding stock, or other dairy-related marketings from these farms. |
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No cullage is being deducted from these marketings. |
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Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick-The Canadian Food Inspection Agencies inspection staff provides a monthly estimate of cullage and marketings. |
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Marketings of slaughter cattle have returned to the pre-BSE level while slaughter has risen above its 2002 level. |
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