Sow Slaughter Up, Pork Output to Drop in 2013
US - In response to increasing corn and soybean prices and declining producer profitability this year, the hog industry is slowly contracting as evidenced the recent upswing in weekly sow slaughter. The larger number of cull sows over the last month pushed year-to-date slaughter levels to about one per cent less than a year ago, when it was down over two per cent in the first half 2012, writes the Livestock Marketing Information Centre.
3 September 2012
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