Expect Congress to Override Farm Bill Veto
It appears that we now have a 2008 farm bill approved by both houses of Congress. The president has promised a veto, but the majorities in both houses were far beyond the levels required to override a veto. Some Republicans may switch sides to support the president, but observers think the override is a certainty....
Pork’s Part in the Farm Bill
The 2008 farm bill continues to slog through Congress. The bill is still in conference committee where conferees from both houses are trying to work out the differences between their two versions. If and when...
Illinois profile
Despite some dips in production during the last few decades, Illinois showed a bit of a resurgence in recent years and retained its 4th ranking in U.S....
Know Your Competition
With weekly slaughter numbers running routinely above year-ago levels, feed costs running at exorbitantly high levels and U.S. consumers counting every...
Illinois Pork, Packers, Politics and Mini-Building Boom
If there were a contest to name the ideal place to raise hogs, longtime Illinois pork producer Art Lehmann believes his state is as competitive as any...
Coping with High Feed Costs
Years of operating in a hot cash grain market may have helped prepare Strawn, IL, pork producer Art Lehmann to better cope with today's high input costs....
Illinois' Newest Packers
The launch of the producer-owned Meadowbrook Farms, and Triumph Foods' announced intentions to build a new plant in East Moline, have been hot stories...
Illinois Producers Ponder Future
Bible Pork Inc. Bible Pork Inc., based in Louisville, IL, was The Maschhoffs' first sow farm contractor, starting out as a 500-sow, farrow-to-wean operation....
Hog Prices Just an Anomaly?
To use an appropriate porcine question: Will demand save our bacon? When we look at the last two weeks, the answer could certainly be a resounding “Yes!” Why else would packers be aggressively chasing hogs when slaughter rates are so high? And why else...
Higher Prices Offer Little Relief
It is difficult to believe that spot market carcass prices of $67/cwt. and futures contract prices in the $70s (and $80s for the deferred contracts) can leave the pork industry in a serious financial situation...
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