date:Mar 26, 2014
was an early indicator that the pig virus, first confirmed in the United States in April 2013, had began to trim hog supply.
Rabobank is also forecasting an 11 percent, or 12.5 million head, decline of market-ready hogs in 2014.
The U.S. chicken industry is poised to gain from the losses in the pork industry and declining U.S. beef production by becoming the protein of last resort, Rabobank analysts said in the note.