Livestock China’s Live Hog Producers Confront the Scissors Effect Record feed costs, historically high piglet prices, biosafety costs, and declining live hog and pork prices have created the dreaded scissors effect for many hog producers. The scissors effect, a term from corporate finance, results from a situation of rapidly rising operating costs and declining sales revenues. Through last Friday, the national average live hog price was down 5.7 percent or RMB 1.25/kg ($.19/kg) or RMB .57/lb. ($.08/lb.). This marks the lowest price level since mid-July 2019, roughly three weeks before the first African Swine Fever (ASF) cases showed up in China. The average profit per live hog also fell to its lowest average since the third week of...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain areas of Africa (and historically, Arabia) and is the largest living species of bird. The common ostrich is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus St...
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A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
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Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.