🌾 Throughout the course of the week, grain prices were mixed but mostly higher as traders remained watchful over developments in the critical Black Sea shipping deal between Ukraine and Russia. 

     • Both corn and wheat prices made moderate inroads, following a round of technical buying. 

     • Soybeans trended moderately lower, in contrast, after getting pinched by spillover weakness from flailing stocks and energy prices.

🔎 For all the numbers and details, click here.

🔬 Not in a romance kinda thing, but in a science kind… The Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) is on the lookout for a second round of research proposals with novel tools focused on site and transportation biosecurity – specifically on personnel biocontainment and bioexclusion, mortality management, truck washing efficiency, alternatives to fixed truck washing, and packing plant biocontainment. 

     • Funding will be provided by the SHIC, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, and ...

🇧🇷🇦🇺 An unlikely match? Perhaps in the animal world, but not in international politics! The Brazilian and Australian governments have opened talks aimed at forging new agricultural trade agreements: the South American country plans to export pork to Aussies, who will in turn export wheat and barley to their future partner.

     • Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will grow this year because the government will work on settling deals su...

🇨🇦🏥 Twenty workers at a pork slaughterhouse run by Fearmans Pork Inc. in Burlington, Ontario (Canada), have been taken to a hospital as a precautionary measure after an ammonia leak. The gas is used at the plant as a refrigerant and enough of it was released to prompt the fire department to respond – since inhalation can be lethal.

     • The building was then evacuated at the moment of the incident, but workers should be able to resume their work. Read this for all the details.

🌾 Grain prices were mixed but mostly higher earlier this week: 

     • Corn and wheat saw the biggest improvements (respectively, between 1.5% and 2%, and more than 1%) as they continued to recover from multi-month lows seen in recent sessions. 

     • Soybean contracts, on the other hand, were slightly down.

🔎 For the complete numbers and information, check this out.

💥 Or rather, caught up on Net Energy! Out of all the energy systems used to formulate diets for monogastric animals, the Net Energy system is the most appropriate one – it enables us to focus on providing energy and other nutrients for maintenance, growth, production, and reproduction. All good, all true – but how to do it right?

💡 With its long-standing expertise in feed formulation, Adisseo has combined all up-to-date information on nutritional recommendations for livestock with a dynamic dat...

🇺🇲 The US National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) is still reviewing the rule change to the "Product of the USA" label proposed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the new rule, this label will be only for meat from animals born, raised, slaughtered, and processed in the US (as we explained here).

🧐 Here are some concerns regarding the proposed new rule: it’s important that it doesn’t violate international obligations by putting international products at a disadvantage, thus mining...