Source: Chris Clayton, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 7/23/18

Bill Even jumped on stage last week at the United Soybean Board's long-range planning meeting and enthusiastically talked about how pork and beans go together. Even, the CEO of the National Pork Board, rattled off numbers about the record size of the pork herd and the reliance on soybeans. Last year alone, 121.3 million hogs went to market. That translated into roughly 430 million bushels of soybeans to feed those hogs, or about 10% of the soybean crop, Even pointed out. He noted every pork chop took about a half-pound of soybeans to produce.

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