date:Mar 26, 2014
U.S. pork production is expected to fall 6 to 7 percent in 2014 as a deadly pig virus sweeps across the country, reducing the supply of market-ready hogs, according to Rabobank agribusiness analysts.
The tightest period for hog supply is projected to come during the August-to-October period when slaughter could decline by 15 to 25 percent from 2013 levels in the wake of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, or PEDv, the analysts said in a research report published on Tuesday.
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