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June might be dairy month, but it’s all about pork today and tomorrow at the World Pork Expo. We talked about this on our report yesterday. The 38th year the Expo held and always in Des Moines. This year, 10 foreign countries represented, many from South America, where they now have corn production to support expanding confinement operations. Iowa produces …
The pork industry is holding some of its highest inventory of hogs and pigs since the USDA began recording the data back in 1964. That’s according the to the Hogs and Pigs Report that came out Thursday. Politico says pork checkoff experts struggled to find a bright spot for hog producers in the months ahead. “We’re looking at an awful …
The pork industry is pressing for a Foot-and-Mouth Disease vaccine bank in the 2018 farm bill. The price tag would be high, but the industry argues the cost of an FMD outbreak would be even higher. Farm bill writers will already be under huge pressure to keep costs down in the 2018 bill. But the National Pork Producers Council wants …
