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Hog Outlook: Big Losses for Iowa Pig Producers

2016-01-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - Calculations by Lee Schulz at Iowa State University estimate Iowa farrow-to-finish producers lost $18.40 for each hog marketed during December. That is the biggest monthly loss since April 2013. For all of 2015, producers averaged a profit of $7.93 per hog marketed, write Ron Plain and Scott Brown, Ag Economics, MU.

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