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Pork Output to Rise in 2015

2014-06-27 22:54:00| National Hog Farmer

By John Otte Retailer strategies will guide price response. For over a year, the U.S. hog market has wrestled with how many baby pigs are actually being lost due to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), and what that means for summer hog slaughter. The first wave of PEDV impacted the spring 2013 pig crop. The spring pig crop drives fourth-quarter hog slaughter. Fourth-quarter production is normally the largest of the year. If a few extra pigs from last years spring pig crop died, so what? read more

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