date:Aug 07, 2014
DV losses is behind us but I dont agree.
While there are rumors of packers planning to return to five-day-per-week operation soon, I fear they will still find hogs hard to come by for the next six to eight weeks, especially in the Midwest.
Weights continue to run well above last year (see Figure 2). Though the average weight of producer-sold barrows and gilts declined fractionally in each of the past three weeks, it remains at 213.6, 5.3 per cent larger than one year ago.
That percentage incr