The USDA’s latest hogs and pig report estimates the smallest breeding herd in more than a decade. Ever.Ag Chief Livestock Economist Lee Schulz says producers continue to pull back sows in production as productivity improves. “We have fewer sows today than we did a year ago,” he says. “If you consider anything like a similar […]
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