A new pig skyscraper in China is expected to butcher millions of pigs every year. Pig trotters hang from hooks as a butcher prepares pork meat at a market in Hong Kong on May 11, 2019. - Hong Kong ...
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China wants slimmer pigs

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese farmers and small firms have increasingly bought market-ready pigs from larger breeders and fattened them in a bet on higher prices, but the government is cracking down on ...
China will no longer require small hog farmers to seek environmental approval before breeding pigs in an effort to rebuild its hog herd following widespread outbreaks of African Swine Fever, according ...
China is reeling from a nearby shortage of soybean meal, an important ingredient for hog feed, which is shown by a hefty backwardation in the futures market on the Dalian Commodity Exchange. Futures ...