Source: Lydia Mulvaney, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 10/25/18


There’s a mystery unraveling in the hog market: call it the case of the missing pigs. For weeks now, traders have been expecting U.S. slaughter rates to jump as the government has consistently reported a swelling domestic herd this year. Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina, one of the top hog states, in mid-September, slowing down processing operations. But that bottleneck should have cleared by now, and analysts were expecting a sudden rush of hogs to market.

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