date:Mar 17, 2014
of hogs was reflected in the U.S. government's weekly slaughter estimates on Friday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated Friday's hog slaughter at 360,000 head, down 51,000 head from a week ago.
The USDA estimated hog slaughter so far this year down 3.5 percent from the same period a year ago.
I think that kind of operating approach, cutting one day a week, is possibly coming to some Midwest plants in May, said Steve Meyer, livestock economist at Paragon Economics.
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