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Selling more pork at higher prices signifies stronger 2024 demand
1 day ago · Higher forecasted pork supply in 2025 will boost domestic per capita pork use to 51.0 pounds per person on a retail-weight basis. This would be up 0.5 pounds, or 1.0%, from 2024. USDA is expecting 2025 barrow and gilt prices, on a carcass weight basis, to fall to $78.67 per cwt, down 3.4% from the current forecast for 2024 of $81.40 per cwt.
U.S. hog and pig inventory up slightly, now 75 million head
Dec 21, 2023 · Between September 2023 and November 2023, 34.6 million pigs were weaned on U.S. farms, down slightly from 2022. Sows farrowing during this period totaled 2.97 million head, a 4% drop from 2022. From September 2023 through November 2023, U.S. hog and pig producers saved an average 11.66 pigs per litter, compared to 11.22 last year.
Hogs and Pigs Report expectations - nationalhogfarmer.com
Sep 23, 2024 · USDA says the average farm price for the 2022-23 marketing year was $6.54 per bushel. They estimate the 2023-24 marketing year average at $4.65/bu and are forecasting the 2024-25 year at $4.10 per bushel. The futures market expects hog prices to trend lower until the end of the year then increase until July 2025.
Demand strengthening pork, hog prices - National Hog Farmer
May 23, 2024 · The forecast for prices of second-quarter live equivalent 51-52% lean hogs are expected to average $68 per cwt, almost 21% higher than prices in 2023. “In the remaining quarters of 2024, hog prices are reduced by $1 per cwt, to $71 in the third quarter and $56 in the fourth quarter,” Haley notes. “Quarterly 2024 price forecasts should ...
March/April 2024 edition of National Hog Farmer now available
March 7, 2024. 1 Min Read. The March/April 2024 digital edition of National Hog Farmer is now available. Articles include: - The unseen role of vehicle movements. - Feeding treated wheat straw to weanling pigs. - Can black soldier fly larvae meal be used as a main protein in nursery pig diets? - And MUCH more. Click to view.
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H5N1 pigs likely became infected from contact with migratory birds
6 days ago · The USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratories has completed testing on the two remaining pigs and has confirmed that one tested positive and met the clinical case definition for HPAI H5N1. Sequencing from this positive sample, while incomplete due to the low level of the virus, indicates infection from the D1.2 genotype of H5N1.
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Blueprint: Genome-enabled selection improves pig production. Commercial producers may not directly see advancement in any given trait that they can directly attribute to the newest genomic technology. However, rest assured that any improvement seen at the commercial level is a result in part of genome-enabled technology advancements made by ...
Higher volumes of pork, market hogs sold impact Seaboard Q3 …
2 days ago · For the nine-month period of 2024, higher volumes of pork products and market hogs sold contributed sales of $102 million and higher market prices contributed to an increase in sales of $34 million,” Seaboard notes. Operating income dropped to $32 million from $67 million. The company says the reduction for the three-month period primarily ...