date:Aug 07, 2014
The hog supply situation is playing out just about as we expected for this summer with numbers well below one year ago and very much in line with our computations, writes Steve Meyer for The National Hog Farmer.
Those figures were based on anecdotal data regarding losses due to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) and actual PEDV case accession data from the National Animal Health Laboratory Network.
Figure 1 shows weekly slaughter data from last year and this year as well as my forecasts an