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Many Factors are Working Together to Impact Pork Supply
2014-02-24 20:28:00| National Hog Farmer
By Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics, Inc., Adel, IA There are a number of news items of value today and they have some broad implications. First, the number of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) case accessions at veterinary diagnostic labs fell for the week of February 10. (See Figure 1 in this story). Furthermore, the decline was the largest on record outside of the sharp drop at Christmas. Those are the good news items. The bad news is that the 30-case decline was from the all-time record high of 301 accessions the week of February 3, and that one point does not make a trend. But in this fight, well take all of the good news we can get. read more
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