date:Jul 01, 2014
ready for sale to packers was 95% of a year ago at 56.273 million head. Analysts had expected a smaller 3.2% decline to 57.31 million head.
Analysts had been expecting pigs per litter during the second quarter to be 9.8 head. The U.S.D.A. data indicated pigs per litter at 9.78 head, or 95% of the 10.31 in the year-ago period.