Waning Flu Scare Deepens Financial Woes
It appears that the H1N1 influenza scare is dissipating, but not before it has wreaked havoc in pork and hog markets, and left pork producers and packers in an even deeper financial bind. The damage has been significant, especially when piled on top of what has happened over the past 18 months....
H1N1 Influenza A Fallout Assessed
To say it has been a tough week in the pork business would be a monumental understatement. And the pain is worse when it is completely undeserved....
Lagging Pork Loin Prices
It has been a tough week for pork cutout values. After showing some signs of expected seasonal strength last week, the cutout value fell from Monday through Wednesday, before gaining...
Canadian Hogs Confound Market Reports
There have been several reports that Canadian-born market hogs are being regularly discounted by U.S. packers. I’m sure that some of those reports are based on fact. But the entire situation...
Meat, Crop Supplies Vetted
In case anyone noticed and was wondering, the identical Q1-2009 slaughter numbers under each forecaster in last week’s Figure 1 (the table of forecasts following the March Hogs and Pigs Report) does not mean that all of us came up with the same number...
Pig Crop Report Revisited
First, a correction to the Hogs and Pigs special report you received on Monday. Table 1 (attached) has the correct figure of 28.387 million head for the Dec.-Feb. pig crop last year...
Bullish and Bearish Numbers
USDA’s quarterly Hogs and Pigs report, released on Friday, was once again a mixture of bullish and bearish numbers with market supplies a bit bearish and breeding herd numbers a bit bullish in the long run....
Pig Crop Projections and Long-Term Trends
This afternoon, USDA will release its estimates of U.S. hog and pig inventories on March 1. Watch your e-mail on Monday for a summary of the report and its implications for...
Meat Demand is Risky Business
I remain very concerned about meat demand, in general. I have believed for some time that this is far and away the largest risk factor for the U.S. pork industry in 2009....
Patience – Spring is Coming!
It has been a long, cold winter — made considerably colder and longer for hog producers by a constant flow of red ink....
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