The Masters of the Pork Industry are a special, hand-picked group of pork industry visionaries.
Their personal stories and business philosophies provide insight into their respective segments of the U.S. pork industry.
They are professionals, entrepreneurs and industry leaders; their visions for this dynamic industry will inspire young and old.
Each shares the life experiences, bumps and bruises and inspirations that have carried them forward in pursuit of excellence.
The anti-nuclear energy sentiments in the early '70s diverted this would-be nuclear engineer to an agricultural economist career — and the U.S. pork industry was the beneficiary.
At what point do we punt the December Hogs and Pigs Report? That is the question that is weighing on the minds of both market analysts and producers as hog slaughter numbers remain far below expected levels and weights show no signs of "backed up" hogs. I realize there are performance issues, so let's discuss the report, what it suggested for this spring, and the forces that could be driving numbers in various directions.
Friday's Cold Storage report was not wildly bullish, but was certainly good news regarding the status of frozen meat and poultry inventories. Stocks for every species were well below year-ago levels and lower than the already-low levels reported in the December report. Data for all meat and poultry species appears in Table 1 and the monthly species totals are shown in Figure 1 to provide a historical perspective.
