US Wheat Associates (USW) has just hired Dong-Chan Bae as the country director in the USW Seoul Office, in South Korea.
- He’ll begin his role on Nov. 1 and will bring with him 25 years of experience in food and consumer goods and flour milling operations.
The expectation is that his understanding of the global wheat market will be an asset for our nation’s efforts in an important part of the world – and for developing, maintaining, and expanding US wheat exports to the South Korean m...
😬 We feel like a broken record, but we need to talk about Prop 12 again. Remember the latest updates, after the US Supreme Court heard the case against it, and a decision was set to come out at the beginning of the next year? Well, the thing is, Americans aren't the only ones who are concerned about the Californian law – Canadians are holding onto their hats too!
- Refresh your memory about the whole situation here.
🧾 Canada’s pork producers export large amounts of product to the US, a...
🇷🇺 Remember that deal brokered by the UN and Turkey, the one that allowed Ukrainian crop exports to move across the Back Sea without Russian interference? Well, it was good while it lasted… That deal’s off the table now – and so are the shipped supplies.
- Despite ongoing attempts to salvage the deal, Russia backed out. So traders are bracing for a fresh spike in grain prices and vulnerable populations are at risk of starvation once again…
📈 How much of a price jump we’ll be seeing i...
⚠️ Caution: obstacles ahead! At least 12 Brazilian states have had their roads blocked by truckers, which could affect agricultural exports in one of the world's top food producers.
- The trucks aren’t the only obstacles on the road, however – the protests are taking place after incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro lost in the elections against former President and ideological rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
🇧🇷 The political situation makes it difficult to predict how long the blocka...
🐷 A bunch of pigs from different nationalities line up to step into a boxing ring and fight for the Mexican championship belt – it says “international supplier”. Quite an image? It’s a somewhat realistic one.
- Mexico’s newest decree aims to reduce the impacts of inflation on consumers by reducing prices for basic foods – pork and beef included – through the suspension of duties on most imports of pork, beef and poultry.
- The idea is good, but everybody was a little bit concerned tha...
☣ “Who’s there”? “An undiagnosed swine virus.” Was that not funny? Well, you’re right, it’s not… The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) is monitoring the developments of an undiagnosed infection that has resulted in mortality and morbidity in pigs in Ecuador. Click here to learn more.
- Dr. Paul Sundberg, SHIC Executive Director, explains that what’s especially concerning is that the virus was only reported eight months after it began.
Tests have so far been negative for both Classica...
If we’re doing fine, there’s no point in wandering far off the beaten track, is there? That’s why during their October board meeting, the Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) Board of Directors voted to continue funding the Domestic Swine Disease Monitoring Report in 2023.
- The program has been running since March 2018 and its updates on megatrends of disease agents have been helping protect the US and boost the health of pigs nationwide.
Broadening the list of pathogens of the pr...