The U.S. hog inventory grew modestly over the past year. The USDA says that on June 1st, there were 75.137 million hogs and pigs in the U.S., slightly above a year ago, with a 1% increase in market hogs to 69.158 million head canceling out a fractional decrease for the breeding herd at The March […]
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