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Genesus Global Market Report_China December 2021
China Hog Markets Trending Upward By Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales for China, Genesus Inc. One only has to glance at the chart below to see 2021 has been a challenging year for the China Swine Industry. However, there is reason for optimism as pig prices across the board have recently been trending upwards.…
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Genesus – A Real Point of Difference
by Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe., Genesus Following the crowd is easy, going against the crowd requires courage and a real belief that what you are doing is correct. Now over 20 years ago, whilst pig breeding companies were focusing on hyper prolific sows, making pigs leaner and leaner, and on reducing…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Spain, December 2021
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal It’s the last month of 2021 and Mercolleida price in Spain is expected to stay at 1.020 € / kg, as established 4 weeks ago, for the rest of the year. In 2020 production cost averaged 1.08 €/kg with a market hog selling price of 1.30…
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Tasty Pork Does Not Have to Cost More!
by Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe., Genesus For superior taste you need fat, in particular intramuscular fat or marbling. There is a very strong (90%) correlation between intramuscular fat and backfat. Although today that means we can select for more marbling without increasing backfat, it does mean that in general pigs with…
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Genesus Global Market Report_SE Asia, Nov 2021
Paul Anderson, General Manager South East Asia – International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. ThailandLooming pork shortage in Thailand The price of live pigs at the farm gate in Thailand has reached USD 2.5/kg, up from USD 1.8/kg two months ago. This is signaling that a shortage of pork is looming in months to come. Main…
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Host Genetics of the Enteric Microbiome and Disease Resilience
by Chad Bierman, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. Profitability is driven by many different components of swine production. It has been suggested that the number of full value pigs sold out of pig operations may be the largest factor affecting profitability (Boyd, 2012). Pig mortality is a big contributor to the number of pigs sold, and…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Mexico_November 2021
Fernando Ortiz, Ibero-America Business Manager, Genesus Inc. Inflation and Consumer’s Pork Price Mexico, like most countries, has also been affected by unprecedented inflation. The price index of the basic food basket increased 8.3 percent last month compared to the same month last year. Among the causes that have originated the upward behavior in prices is…
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The Importance of High Lactation Feed Intake
Selecting pigs for lower FCR leads to reduced feed intake for growing pigs and for lactating sows. This is having a significant negative impact on breeding performance. Increased Milk Production Obviously, higher lactation feed intake will increase milk production which in turn leads to heavier weaning weights. Research done by Genesus shows for every 1kg…
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Genesus Global Market Report, France_Price Stable_November 2021
Philippe Mallétroit, Director France, Genesus Inc. Pork prices don’t seem to get any better in Europe. First week of November showed no significant change in Europe’s hog markets, despite being reduced to only 4 working days in some countries due to November 1st public holiday. Pig producers continue to suffer from health crises, African Swine…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Processing Challenges in Canada/Ontario (Part Two)
November 2021 by Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Ontario When It All Hits the Fan In my last commentary eight weeks ago, I reviewed some of the challenges to the Canadian pork processing industry, particularly in Ontario. Unfortunately, those challenges seemingly have now gone from bad to worse. In the last two weeks…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Russia, October 2021
Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe, Genesus Inc. Current pig price in Russia remains good at 133.2 Roubles per live kg (US$1.91). There continue to be outbreaks of ASF in commercial farms that take some pigs off the market and large integrators going to the market to fill the spaces in their plants.…
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Genesus Global Market Report_USA, October 2021
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Inc. Futures have slipped with over $10/cwt. My chart-watching friends have told me the fact that a gap has occurred after the last report and we are now back at pre-report levels, is not a good sign for futures. My good friend Bob Lingenfelter uses a charting program that is as…
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Genesus Global Market Report_China, October 2021
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales for China, Genesus Inc. “Too pessimistic to be more pessimistic” is the way one publication described it. There certainly has been a lot for pork farmers in China to be pessimistic about recently. Our observations are there is huge liquidation occurring of both sows and pigs. Reports of long…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Spain and EU, October 2021
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal Fifteen days ago, Genesus was an exhibitor at FIGAN, Spain. We had the opportunity to meet again with many people within the industry. The truth is that we had our doubts the show will be held, given the COVID-related restrictions, but we were finally able to…
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Genesus Global Market Report_SE Asia, September 2021
Paul A. Anderson General Manager South East Asia/ International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Philippines The average market price of regular slaughter hog drastically went further down in the month of September 2021. As of this writing, the average September price was 140 PHP per kg (2.74 USD) while that of culled sows is at 75…
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Genesus Global Market Report_France, September 2021
By Philippe Mallétroit – Director for France, Genesus Inc. Unlike other European countries, where prices have fallen continuously this summer, hog market price in France remained at 1.345 € per kg carcass since July, 19. The German official reference lost 12 cents (per kg carcass) during August under the strong pressure of the packing plants…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Mexico, September 2021
By Fernando Ortiz, Ibero-America Business Development Manager Pork prices in Mexico soared at record highs during the first half of the year (62% higher year over year) helping producers offset high input costs. Hog prices are expected to plateau in 2022 after record price volatility in 2020/2021, according to Rabobank. Both, production growth and market…
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Genesus Global Market Report
Canada, September 2021Processing Challenges Robert Fraser, Sales and Service, Genesus Inc. Ever since Quality Meat Packers (second-largest pork packer in Ontario at the time) went down in 2014 sideswiping producers for a week’s worth of pigs on the way out, the Ontario pork industry has got by on perhaps more good luck than good management. The loss…
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Should we manage cost of production or profit?
Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe, Genesus Inc. Selection indexes in the Genesus Genetic Program are a measure of profitability. Genomic Estimated Breeding Values (GEBV) are estimated for the key traits affecting profitability. The higher the Index the more profitable that pig is relative to all others in the population. When it comes…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Russia, September 2021
Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe, Genesus Inc. The current pig price in Russia is 138.2 Roubles (US$1.88) per kg live (with VAT). There are several reasons for recent increase in price. Covid restrictions mean more Russians taking holiday’s in Russia.A short-term shortage on market due to ASF breaks earlier in the year.A…
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Genesus Global Market Report USA, August 2021 – Feed Conversion
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics Inc I had a conversation with a producer that uses a different genetics company. We started discussing his death loss in finishing and he admitted that in his wean to finish barns the death loss average is 9.8%. I showed him close-outs on 55,000 head of Genesus full program pigs…
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What is the Cost of a Dead Sow?
The production cost of dead sows is becoming a large concern in our industry. According to industry data, sow mortality has nearly doubled in the past 15 years to approximately 13%. Recent data from an industry expert really brings this cost into perspective. Ron Ketchum is a swine industry professional with over 30 years experience…
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Genesus Global Market Report_China,August, 2021
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales China, Genesus Inc. After bottoming out at 13.76 yuan/kg., ($0.96/lb.) in the fourth week of June, China’s pig prices quickly rebounded to 15.58 yuan/kg ($1.09/lb.), but have flatted out since, with only slight fluctuations. Inventory Official reports are that China’s pig production has now fully recovered to pre-ASF levels.…
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AMINO ACID REQUIREMENTS OF GENESUS FINISHING PIGS_Part 2: Setting Dietary Digestible Lysine Levels
by: Clarence Froese, M.Sc., Director of Nutrition, Genesus Inc. Individual nutrient requirements are generally derived and expressed in terms of total daily amounts, as opposed to dietary concentrations. For example, finishing pigs require a total of 20 grams of digestible lysine per day to support a daily growth rate of 1 kg (2.2 lbs.). To…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Europe and Spain, August 2021
Mercedes Vega General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal mvega@genesus.com 2021 is the first year when we see summer prices going down week by week. In the last report, 8 weeks ago, Spain was at 1.55 €/kg while Germany was 1.22 €/kg live weight. Today we see a price of 1.271 €/kg, in Spain (down…
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Genesus Has Lower Sow Mortality More Salvage Value 2020
Pig Champ is a major swine production recording system in the United States. In 2020 they had data from 365 farms which they put in a benchmarking database. Below is the change in Pig Champ Sow Mortality Mean Average for 2020 and prior years. 20138.36%20158.94%201710.73%201912.31%202013.91% It’s obvious the increase in industry sow mortality. This is…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, August 2021
Paul A. Anderson General Manager South East Asia / International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Thailand. Covid-19 hits pig price. Pig price in Thailand plunged in July after a new outbreak of Delta-variant Covid-19 forced many pork plants to close. It is estimated that half of the large-scale meat plants in major cities such as Bangkok…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Mexico, July 2021
by: Fernando Ortiz, Genesus Ibero-American Bussiness Development Mexico’s hog industry has had an unusual start to 2021, with expectations of greater growth in production, which in the end have turned to the opposite, due to different factors. Rising herd health challenges, higher feed costs, and domestic demand uncertainty due to ongoing pandemic disruption have pressured…
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Genesus Global Market Report_France, July 2021
by: Philippe Mallétroit, Director France, Genesus Inc. After preserving price stability during the first 5 markets of June with an average price of 1.547 € per kg carcass, the hog market in France has finally followed the very downward trend of the European market, which was first observed on June 9th in northern Europe. Since…
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Genesus Global Market Report, Canada July 2021
Prosperity Reigns (for now) by: Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Ontario Last commentary eight weeks ago Bob Hunsberger, Wallenstein Feeds, Hog Economics Summary Sheet showed profitability per pig with average production at $51.03. Now it has improved a further sixteen dollars to $67.41. Then the next twelve-month projection has moved from a profit…
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Genesus Global Market Report Russia, June 2021
by: Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe. Pig price in Russia is 128.8 Roubles per live kg (US$1.75). This has increased a little over the past few weeks. Covid travel restrictions have meant many more Russians taking holidays in Russia, increasing local demand for pork. There has also been some loss of production…
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Genesus Global Market Report- USA, June 2021
Futures will be higher! by Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics As I write this, we have a positive basis of +$10.00! I do not know if I have ever seen that for this time of year. When I was a hog buyer, I charted that basis, it was a predictable tool to indicate market direction.…
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Genesus Global Market Report China, June 2021
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales, Genesus China China Pig and Pork prices have dropped for 20 consecutive weeks, triggering a third level alert by the National Development and Reform Commission. The recently formed commission aims to alert producers to make changes in their production plans, while at the same time adjusting pork reserves to…
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Indicator traits and their application to selection for disease resilience
Chad Bierman, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. Disease challenges in swine production continue to reduce output and temper profitability potential (VanderWaal and Deen, 2018). Treatments are expensive and vaccines are not fully effective. Moreover, existing pathogens can transform into new variants, and there is a continued risk for new infectious agents (Fournie et al., 2015). New…
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Genesus Global Market Report Europe and Spain, June 2021
by Mercedes Vega General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal Until now in Europe the market was divided -there were those who could export to China – Spain, and those who could not – Germany. This has made the price depending on whether you were in one area or another. Germany with its ASF issue,…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, June 2021
Paul A. Anderson, General Manager South East Asia / International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Thailand Export ban and Covid-19 hit pig price in Thailand Pig price in Thailand plunged 15% in the last two weeks of May 2021, from THB 80/ kg ($ 2.6) to THB 68/ kg ($ 2.2). The price plunge was a…
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Genesus Global Market Report France, June 2021
Philippe Mallétroit – Director, Genesus Inc. in France. Since our last report in March, hog market price continue to increase in France. That’s a good thing, because it was necessary to counterbalance the increase in the feed price. Indeed, today, a finisher feed diet price is close to 300 € per tonne ($332 US /ton)…
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Pork Quality Genetic Improvement Strategies
Dr Chunyan Zhang, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. For a pig breeding company, the ultimate goal is to provide pigs with the genetic potential to: improve consumers` overall acceptance and eating experience (pork quality);maximize producers` profit. Pork quality is mostly linked with consumer sensory measurements including taste, juiciness, flavour, tenderness and overall acceptance. However, direct genetic improvement…
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Genesus Global Market Report Mexico, May 2021
Fernando Ortiz-H, Ibero-America Business Development Manager, Genesus Inc. What is currently happening in the Mexican swine market is interesting and atypical. During the last days we have been in touch with pork producers and with pork producers associations leaders, who say they are surprised by the turn that the pork business has taken lately, especially…
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Genesus vs. PigChamp_2020 Data
The Genesus sow has the capacity to breed, deliver more pigs, have heavy weaning weights, with low sow mortality and more pigs weaned lifetime. The average of the Genesus herds over 30 weaned mated female for the 12 months January 1st – December 31st, 2020. Genesus stay in production have more pigs per year and…
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Genesus Global Market Report, Canada, May 2021
Let the Good Times Roll (and Keep Rolling) Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Inc. Last commentary eight weeks ago Bob Hunsberger, Wallenstein Feeds, Hog Economics Summary Sheet showed profitability per pig with average production at $26.34. an incredible reversal of fortunes of $65.61 from the previous eight weeks. Then the next twelve-month projection…
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Genesus Global Market Report, Russia, May 2021
Simon GreyGeneral Manager Russia, CIS and Europe, Genesus Inc. Current Russian pig price is 122 Roubles ($1.63)/live kg (with VAT). Despite higher feed costs pig producers in Russia continue to make profit. When we look at profitability in pig production we always look at it in pig terms. Profit per kg, profit per pig, profit…
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Genesus Nutritional Recommendations
Recently Jim Long President-CEO Genesus Inc. and Clarence Froese Director of Nutrition gave a presentation on Genesus Nutritional Recommendations. The presentation highlighted the philosophy of Genesus, why we did the nutritional work, how we did the nutritional work, the results from this information, how feeding Genesus pigs differ from other genetic companies, and the economics…
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Genesus Global Market Report USA, May 2021
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics, Inc. I heard someone on the radio talk about June hogs being higher than June cattle. As I write this, hogs June hogs are $115 and June cattle are $114. However you have to remember that cattle are traded live and hogs are carcass based, so compare apples to apples,…
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Genesus Global Market Report_China, April 2021
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales China, Genesus Inc. What is the current Market Outlook in China? There are a lot of confusing circumstances in China’s pork industry at this moment as one only has to take a look at the chart below depicting the evolution of up and down prices. To better understand the…
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Genesus Global Market Report Europe and Spain, April 2021
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugalmvega@genesus.com We started the year with the lowest price in the last 5 years; 15 weeks later, has reached the highest value of the same period with an increase of 33.21%. We have started the year with record weights, 1 kg more than in 2018, and almost…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, April 2021
Paul A. Anderson,General Manager South East Asia/ International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Philippines Pork Producers Weekly Liveweight Prices as of April 8, 2021(NET Price, PHP/USD per kg) The average market price of regular slaughter hog for the month of March 2021 went down by a few pesos. As per ProPORK weekly price monitoring, the average…
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The Cost of Sow Mortality
Sow mortality is increasing, with average levels in most countries now in the low double figures. Note, these are average figures meaning many farms are worse. Ten to fifteen years ago we would be expecting to see sow mortalities around 6% to 8%. There are some obvious costs of sow mortality. The most obvious is…
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Genesus Global Market Report Mexico, April 2021
Fernando Ortiz-H, Ibero-America Business Development Manager, Genesus Genetics Inc The Mexican pork market has been gradually recovering from the low prices at the beginning of the year. In the last month and a half, it has managed to push up the prices by around 15¢ US per pound liveweight (from 65¢/ lb to 80¢/ lb)…
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Preweaning Piglet Mortality_Part 3
Dinesh Thekkoot PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. In the first part of this series, we discussed the economic impacts of preweaning mortality (PWM), and in the second part the various causes of PWM. Various predisposing causes of PWM and their complex interactions are depicted in Figure 1. These factors can be broadly classified into (a) Sow…
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Genesus Global Market Report_France_April 2021
Philippe Mallétroit – Director for France, Genesus Inc. After a continuous decrease since September 2020, the hog price in France stabilized around the average price of 1.20 € per kg carcass from the beginning of December until mid-February of this year. This price decrease was accompanied by a rise in the price of feed, which…
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Agro Eco_Russia
Genesus is a Global Genetic Company. Agro Eco is a producer in Russia. The results below are from Genesus Duroc bred to Genesus Yorkshire/Landrace F-1’s. The farm is 2,700 sows farrow to finish on one site. Agro Eco is getting excellent results, a testament to their expertise of their swine production team and Genesus. PerformanceUnitAverage…
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Genesus Global Market Report Canada – Hogs Pull Into The Lead, March 2021
Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Ontario Last commentary I said that we had no relief and we were in a tight race, although pork was rising, it was being outrun by grains. Squeezing margins from rising feed costs. Here is where we were at on January 22, 2021, from Bob Hunsberger – Wallenstein…
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Amino Acid Requirements of Genesus Finishing Pigs Part 1: Digestible Lysine
Clarence Froese, M.Sc., P.Ag., Director of Nutrition, Genesus Inc. Proteins consist of a number of structural components including amino acids. During digestion the bonds holding these components together are broken, hence freeing the individual amino acids to be absorbed into the bloodstream. Here they are transported throughout the pig’s body and used to rebuild new…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Russia, March 2021
Simon GreyGeneral Manager Russia, CIS, and Europe, Genesus Inc. Current Russian pig price is 122 Roubles ($1.67) per live kg, including 10% VAT. Lent is just starting in Russia so price is as normal expected to fall to about 112 Roubles ($1.53). This is in line with where the price has been for the past…
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Genesus Global Market Report, USA, March 2021
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Geneticsabentley@genesus.com I have asked Bob Lingenfelter to add his thoughts as we are both predicting higher prices. Bob and I have argued about markets for 30 years. Of course, Bob played football for Nebraska and then went on to play for the Browns and the Vikings so I don’t argue too…
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Disease Resilience – Focused on Improving Pig Health
Chad Bierman, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. What is disease resilience and why is it important? Disease challenges in swine put downward pressure on the economics of pork production. Disease resilience is important because it is a phenotypic descriptor for individual animals or a population of animals, and it plays an important role in defining profitability…
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Genesus Global Market Report China_March 2021
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales China, Genesus Inc. Chinese New Year and the all-important Spring Festival has come and now gone with people slowly returning to work. As is normal during this time of celebration and increased demand, the slaughter pig price trended upward to a high of RMB 36.01/kg ($2.53/lb.) January 20th, and…
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Genesus Duroc compared to PIC®800 – PIC®337
Post updated July, 2021 Recently PIC published trial results of PIC®800 – PIC®337. Genesus compares those trial results to Genesus Duroc. PIC®800PIC®337Genesus DurocTotal Head Starting Trial483483516Total Head Observed atEnd of Trial430443495Percent of Pigs that Started Trial but Were Not Observed at Trial End12.3%10.9%4.36%Starting Weight (lbs.)707076.3Ending Weight (lbs.)291.2291.2326Average Weight Gain (lbs.)221.2221.2252.3Average Daily Gain (lbs.)2.272.282.42Feed Conversion Ratio2.762.862.71…
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Genesus Global Market Report Spain, February 2021
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal The Spanish market started 2021 with a high level of activity but in balance. After six months of falling prices, these last four weeks the price has been going up to €1.178/kg (65.34¢ US/lb.) live. We have had an unusual month of January. Although we are…
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Genesus Global Market Report Mexico, February 2021
Fernando Ortiz-H,Ibero-America Business Development Manager, Genesus Inc. Pork processing and packing plants in Mexico have recently lost interest due to falling prices, which have remained extremely volatile, despite being above their lows at the start of the pandemic in the spring. The biggest blow to the pork industry has been a consequence of lower domestic…
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Better Results Sustained by Research
Genesus recommended ratios for finisher pigs from 55-290 lbs. is currently $14.90 US per ton cheaper than PIC’s recommended diets. A big difference that anyone buying feed knows has a big impact on today’s profitability. We have been asked how Genesus developed this Competitive Advantage. Below are the details of our extensive research done to…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, February 2021
Paul A. Anderson,General Manager South East Asia / International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Philippines Lately, retail prices of basic necessities in the National Capital Region of the Philippines such as pork and chicken have increased significantly due to the threat of coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). Also, supply of pork and pork products in Metro Manila was…
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Metafounders: The Future of Swine Genetic Evaluation
Everestus Akanno, PhD., Geneticist, Genesus Inc. The breeding objective of nucleus swine breeding programs is to improve performance of commercial crossbred pigs. However, what appear to be the same traits (e.g., growth rate) may be expressed differently at the commercial and nucleus herd levels and thus may not be genetically the same due to differences…
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Genesus Global Market Report France, February 2021
Philippe Mallétroit – Director for France, Genesus Inc. Since last December 30, the market price has not changed and remained the same – 1.201 € per kg carcass. The situation is quite different from a year ago, when at the same time the average price was 1,523 € per kg (January 2020). 2020 was obviously…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Canada, January 2021. No Relief (yet) with a Tight Race
Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Ontariobfraser@genesus.com From November 30, 2020 – Bob Hunsberger, Wallenstein Feeds, Hog Economics Summary Sheet showed profitability per pig with average production loss of (-$15.45). Then with the next twelve-month projection moving of $5.39. Not wonderful but at least positive numbers. Now from January 22, 2021- Bob Hunsberger, Wallenstein…
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Western Canada Swine Sales Representative
Genesus Inc., a global leader in the swine genetics industry, is looking for an energetic self-starting person to join our sales team as a Representative for Western Canada. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and growing a Western Canada customer base in Alberta & Saskatchewan, collection of receivables and representing Genesus Inc. in…
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Genesus vs. MetaFarms
Genesus Nursery and Finishing Data is compared to MetaFarms Production Summary. Genesus data is from a large USA grow-finish sample. MetaFarms is a summary of a variety of different genetics in single stocked closeouts. Genesus data is from Genesus Commercial herds using Genesus Duroc Sire and Genesus F-1 female. Genesus data outperforms MetaFarms summary on…
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Genesus Global Market Report_USA, January 2021
Allan Bentley, USA Sales, Genesus Genetics Today, January 14th, 2021, we are starting the second day of the South Dakota Pork Show and the common conversation is feed cost. Monday’s up move in corn and soybean meal added $4.00/ head to the cost of raising hogs – in one day! We have added about $10/cwt…
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Genesus Global Market Report_China, January 2021
Lyle L. JonesDirector of Sales, Genesus Inc., China As the world’s largest pig producer and pork consumer, China has ushered in the hog futures trade! On the evening of December 11, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) set the launch date of hog futures on January 8, 2021. The Dalian Commodity Exchange released eight documents…
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Genesus Global Market Report EU and Spain, December 2020
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugalmvega@genesus.com We have reached the end of the year, when it started, no one could comprehend such an atypical, complicated, and uncertain year into their heads. We started 2020 with unusual high values compared to start of 2019 that went up until the start of the pandemic…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, December 2020
Paul A. Anderson, General Manager South-East Asia/International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Philippines Pork Producers Weekly Liveweight Prices as of December 14, 2020 (NET Price) Total sow population of the Philippines before ASF was in the region of 1,485,000 sows (Commercial=379,345 and Backyard=1,105,655) with Luzon holding nearly 49%, made up of North/Central Luzon: 25.95% and South…
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$16.06 Genesus Competitive Edge per Ton
$16.06 per ton is the current competitive edge in average finisher diet costs for Genesus pigs compared to those of PIC pigs. We have done our homework. Over the past 3 years, we have completed 13 trials involving over 25,000 nursery and finisher pigs to determine our optimal dietary requirements. We have published the results…
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Genesus delivers 900 breeding pigs to Taiyu (Tycoon) Breeding Pig Co., Ltd., China
Genesus is pleased to announce the delivery of 900 head of breeding pigs to Taiyu (Tycoon) Breeding Pig Company in China. A 747 charter plane delivered the pigs on December 9, 2020, from Genesus nucleus farms in the UK. Genesus Managing Director Europe, Helena Echberg was responsible for coordinating the export with Simon Oxby, Technical…
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Genesus Global Market Report France, December 2020
Philippe Mallétroit – Director for France, Genesus Inc. Difficult period due to Covid and ASF Covid and ASF lead to lower hog market prices in Europe. In a very particular context, hog market price in France lost 14.9 cts (0.18 $) per kg carcass in November. Since then, price seems to continue dropping – 1.201…
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Genesus Durocs Qualify for NSR Certified Duroc Program
Genesus Registered Purebreds Durocs qualify for NSR Certified Duroc Program. If you are using another Duroc do they qualify? If not, are they really Durocs? Eligibility Rules Certified Duroc
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Genesus Global Market Report Canada, December 2020
Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Ontario I was encouraged recently to attend an open house for our newest multiplier in Ontario. There was a good turnout with very high percentage of younger producers. I guess I am of the age to be seeing generational turnover, but it is encouraging to see so many…
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Genesus has the World’s Largest Registered Purebred Genetic Program
Genesus Genetic Production – Canada, USA, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, China, Philippines, Viet Nam. Worldwide Nucleus Production Genesus is one of the four largest swine genetic companies in the world. The Genesus Genetic Program results are best summarised by one of our customers in Asia who said: “Genesus – More Pigs, Grow…
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Genesus Global Market Report Mexico, November 2020
by: Fernando Ortiz-H, Ibero-America Business Development Manager, Genesus Inc. Pork prices in the Mexican pig market have started a seasonal recovery, despite all the problems caused by the coronavirus health crisis. During the last three weeks the price of live pig has gained ground considerably, mainly due to three factors: Increase in Domestic Consumption –…
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Genesus Global Market Report USA, November 2020
Allan Bentley, Sales, Genesus Genetics Inc. Are you the KING or the COURT JESTER? I found this chart showing resistance and support levels in the weekly hog chart. It shows that we have had opportunities to hedge hogs and will again. Today… probably not, as we are right in the middle. When the weekly chart…
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The Ultimate Pork Experience
For centuries Pork has been enjoyed for its nutritional values, flavor, and taste. History shows pigs were domesticated by 5000 B.C. This is 7 millenniums of Pork consumption. Today, pork is the most desired and consumed meat in the world. To Maximize nutrition, taste, and flavor; there are three heritage breeds that when combined produce…
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Genesus Global Market Report China, November 2020
Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales China, Genesus Inc. Live Pig and Pork Prices According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the number of live pigs in the China market is increasing. At the same time, live pig prices have been decreasing over the past 12 weeks. The current average live pig price was 29.82…
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Genesus Has Lower Sow Mortality More Salvage Value
Pig Champ is a major swine production recording system in the United States. In 2019 they had data from 365 farms which they put in a Benchmarking database. Below is change in Pig Champ Sow Mortality mean average for 2019 and prior years. 20138.36%20158.94%201710.73%201912.31% It’s obvious the increase in industry sow mortality. This is an…
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Impact of freeze-thaw process on meat quality genetic improvement
by: Dr Chunyan Zhang, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. Meat is a major source of proteins that are necessary for human health. Consumers commonly freeze meat after purchasing it to manage household meat supply. Freezing meat also plays an essential role in prolonging the shelf-life and ensuring meat safety during transport. The global value of pork exports…
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Genesus Global Market Report EU and Spanish Pork Markets_November 2020
by: Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal The week following my last report, the news about the ASF in Germany got out. This added to the current situation means that we have several issues that are making the market at least different/uncertain. To the usual situation of today’s market in this time…
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Genesus Outperforms USA Pig Champ Data
Pig Champ is a leading database of U.S. swine production data. Table below – Genesus compared the Pig Champ Mean and Top 10%. Forty-nine (49) Genesus herds and three hundred five (365) PigChamp herds used for data. No doubt Genesus outperforms the industry averages. If you want excellent overall production:Genesus is The Total Package.
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Genesus Global Market Report – SouthEast Asia, October 2020
by: Paul Anderson, General Manager South East Asia – International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. In the pig industry, we have 2 pandemics to deal with ASF & Covid -19. It’s over 7 months since I returned home to the United Kingdom from the Philippines having canceled the rest of my business trip due to travel…
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Genesus Global Market Report Russia, October 2020
by: Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS and Europe, Genesus Inc. Pig price in Russia is 111.8 Roubles ($1.46) per kg live (with VAT). Covid and ASF, which has been causing havoc markets globally, is today having minimal effect on the Russian market. Over the past couple of months, I have been managing to do…
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Genomic selection for disease resilience using measures of antibody (Ab) response
by: Chad Bierman, PhD, Geneticist, Genesus Inc. Disease is a major contributor to increased costs in the swine industry. For example, the cost estimated from the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) disease alone is $664 million annually to the U.S. swine industry (year 2012 estimate), with 45% of this cost attributable to the breeding…
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Genesus Global Market Report France, October 2020
Philippe Mallétroit – Director for France, Genesus Inc. Hog market: The Impact of ASF in Germany On 10 September, the African Swine Fever virus was detected for the first time in Germany on a wild boar found dead near the border with Poland, in Brandenburg. The European markets, especially those in the North of Europe…
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Data Integrity and Genetic Evaluation Systems
By: Everestus Akanno, PhD., Geneticist, Genesus Inc. The success of pig genetic improvement programs depends heavily on the continued generation, collection, and analysis of industry-wide data from both the nucleus and commercial settings. These data come from a variety of sources including progeny test facilities, packing plants, nucleus and commercial barns, and DNA laboratories (Fig.…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Canada, October 2020
Bob Fraser – Sales & Service, Genesus Inc. In my last commentary, I questioned whether the industry was broken perhaps permanently. Now, eight weeks later we have this. Bob Hunsberger, Wallenstein Feeds, Hog Economics Summary Sheet shows this change from eight weeks ago, profitability going from per pig with average production loss of (-$30.23) to…
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Genesus Global Market Report Mexico, October 2020
Fernando Ortiz-H Ibero-America Business Development Manager, Genesus Inc. Due to the pandemic and the reduction in consumption, the prices of pork in Mexico remain down. In order to understand better how pork prices have evolved in Mexico during the pandemic times, we use this 3Tres3 comparative chart. Mexico’s pork prices have been riding a roller…
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Genesus Global Market Report USA, September 2020
By: Allan Bentley, USA Sales, Genesus Genetics Finally a little good news! The cash hog prices have more than doubled since the end of July. The backup of hogs have been eliminated and demand for the pork is on the rise. As I write this, the cutout value is just under $90. That leaves plenty…
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Genesus Global Market Report China, September 2020
By: Lyle L. Jones, Director of Sales China, Gensus Inc. Pig and Pork Price Trends After the upward trend caused by the ASF epidemic in 2019, pig prices softened following the 2020 Chinese New Year and Spring Festival Holidays. Since May, pig prices have rebounded and are now 37.02 CNY/kg despite a weakened demand for…
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Factors Affecting Pre-weaning Piglet Mortality Part 2
By: Dinesh Thekkoot PhD, Genesus Inc. The first part of this series can be read here Factors Affecting Preweaning Piglet MortalityPart 1 Generally, it’s difficult to attribute a single cause to preweaning mortality (PWM). Various predisposing causes and their complex interactions lead to PWM (Figure 1). These predisposing factors can be broadly classified into (A)…
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Genesus Global Market Report EU and Spanish Pork Markets September 2020
Mercedes Vega, General Director for Spain, Italy & Portugal, Genesus Inc. mvega@genesus.com After eight weeks of same price, Spain is still at 1.3 € per kg live weight, the lowest value of the last five years, except for 2018. As we can see in the table below the average price until this week is much…
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Genesus Global Market Report South-East Asia, September 2020
Paul A. Anderson, General Manager South East Asia – International Sales Manager, Genesus Inc. Thailand Thailand’s live pig exports doubled. Live pig exports from Thailand to neighboring countries from January to July 2020 have doubled to 1.46 million heads valued at US$ 309 million year-on-year, according to official statistics. Shortage of pork in Vietnam is…
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Dietary Energy Considerations For Genesus Full Program Pigs Part 2: Setting Dietary Energy Level
By: Clarence Froese, MSc., P.Ag., Director of Nutrition, Genesus Inc. In part 1 of this topic, the levels of daily feed intakes typically achieved by Genesus nursery and finishing animals were covered along with a comparison to feed intake figures expected from other genotypes. Total daily energy consumption was also discussed. Click to readDietary Energy…
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Genesus Global Market Report_Russia, August 2020
Simon Grey, General Manager Russia, CIS, and Europe, Genesus Inc. Current pig price in Russia stands at 122.6 Roubles ($1.64) per kg liveweight (with VAT). The price has been rising steadily all year from the mid 80’s in January. During this time the Rouble has depreciated about 12% vs US$. Russia’s exports of pig meat…
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